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Measured sections of Ordovician strata in northeast Kentucky

The sections described in this report are part of the data used in studies of the Upper Ordovician rocks of Kentucky. The studies were part of a geologic mapping program by the U. S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Kentucky Geological Survey. Formations of Late Ordovician age described in this report are the Drakes, Bull Fork, Grant Lake, Fairview, and Kope. Most sections were measured in the field with Jacob staff and tape. Color names with numbers are based on comparison with the rock chart by Goddard and others (1948). The core described is on file at the core library of the Kentucky Geological Survey in Lexington, Kentucky.

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