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University of Kentucky UKnowledge Kentucky Geological Survey Map and Chart Kentucky Geological Survey 2017 Kentucky Stratigraphy with Stage Correlations Stephen F. Greb University of Kentucky, [email protected] Right click to open a feedback form in a new tab to let us know how this document benefits oy u. Follow this and additional works at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/kgs_mc Part of the Geology Commons Repository Citation Greb, Stephen F., "Kentucky Stratigraphy with Stage Correlations" (2017). Kentucky Geological Survey Map and Chart. 209. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/kgs_mc/209 This Map and Chart is brought to you for free and open access by the Kentucky Geological Survey at UKnowledge. It has been accepted for inclusion in Kentucky Geological Survey Map and Chart by an authorized administrator of UKnowledge. For more information, please contact [email protected]. KENTUCKY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MAP AND CHART 210 William C. Haneberg, State Geologist and Director Series XII, 2017 UNIVERSITY of KENTUCKY, Lexington Kentucky Stratigraphy https://doi.org/10.13023/kgs.mc210.12 With Stage Correlations Compiled by Stephen F. Greb n North American Million Million Western Kentucky Western Kentucky Central Kentucky Eastern Kentucky s Western ca Western Kentucky Central Kentucky Eastern Kentucky es Western Kentucky es International European years International years Stage (Mississippi Embayment) (Illinois Basin) (Cincinnati Arch) (Appalachian Basin) European (Mississippi Embayment) Era Era age (Illinois Basin) (Cincinnati Arch) (Appalachian Basin) Stage North North Stage Stage (and regional ago Stage Sub- ago Seri Glacial st Seri System (Epoch) System Rock Units Stage (Epoch) substages) Rock Units Rock Units Rock Units Ameri Rock Units Rock Units Rock Units Rock Units Holocene 0 e Late Upper (Tarantian) 0 Quarter- See Holocene-Pleistocene detail (larger scale) See Holocene-Pleistocene detail (larger scale) Tyrrhenian Rancho- Peoria loess nary Pleistocene ? en labrean Big Bone Lick fossils Most of Kentucky’s c Holo- Roxana silt Loveland loess Piacenzian Piacenzian 2.6 Middle sinan (mostly less than floodplain sediments Wiscon- noian “Metropolis Fm.” Ohio River Pliocene Blancan lli (alluvium) are less than ? I ? 10,600 years old) Zanclean Zanclean “Mounds Gravel” Middle (Ionian) Sicilian floodplain 10,000 years old (Lafayette Gravel, 5.3 sediments Messinian Messinian continental deposits) r Hemphillian (alluvium) are 0 to 20,000 Old Kentucky River 1.0 ppe fluvial deposits Sangamonian U Tortonian Tortonian years old ? Clarendonian 10 Calabrian Calabrian ? Irvingtonian Pleistocene ? Serravallian Serravallian Quaternary Ohio River in its present valley Barstovian Cenozoic ? Early t t Irvine Fm. Pre-Illinoian The “Mounds Gravel” Neogene par Langhian Langhian par Lower levels formed (Older down- 2.0 Miocene may be as young as stream to west) Hemingfordian ene tiary tiary Gelasian Gelasian the Early Pleistocene Mammoth Cave Burdigalian Burdigalian er Upper levels formed Blancan Previously Previously of of Plioc Previously Previously wer Middle 20 of T ? Lo 2.59 Aquitanian Aquitanian 23 c r e ppe Chattian Chattian Million nahua U Western North Arikareean A es en International Western Kentucky Western Kentucky Central Kentucky Eastern Kentucky years European American (Mississippi Embayment) Chickasawayan Era Stage (Illinois Basin) (Cincinnati Arch) (Appalachian Basin) ago ciozoneC Seri Stage Stage System (Epoch) Rock Units 30 Substage Rock Units Rock Units Rock Units wer Oligoc 359 Rupelian Rupelian Whitneyan rgian Lo ? Vicks- 360 Cone- r bu Cleveland Shale Mbr. Orellan wangoan )yraitreT fo trap ylsuoiverp( trap fo )yraitreT Berea Ss. (Bradfordian) be Three Lick Bed n 33.9 Hannibal Maury Fm.? equivalent r Creek an Bedford Sh. k- . le Chadronian Jackson ? Member gg ppe Priabonian Priabonian Mem Jac U Upper sonia Fm. uqu U. Sha Famennian Famennian Cle “Cockfield Fm.” Duchesnean Camp Run M. Middle le le Grassy Mbr. Bartonian Bartonian “Cook 40 adagan Gassaway Mountain Morgan L. Creek Mbr. Ohio Fm.” ss Chauta Fms. Trail (of Chattanooga Sh.) Lower (in south-central Ky.) Sha Sha Member Member 370 ne Ca Huron Shale Mbr. r e Uintan “Sparta Middle Fm.” bo (in central and east-central Ky.) Upper en Lutetian Lutetian Upper Olentangy Shale c Unnamed ”) Clai Selmier K-bentonite, and Eo and Chattanooga Member Bridgerian is s Rhinestreet Dowelltown Shale, in on Claibornian can ph Member Shale ivided Frasnian Frasnian Claiborne Fm.Claiborne (Gp.) Tennessee New Albany Albany New ? New Albany Albany New Cohocton (of Chattanooga Sh.) (Chemungian) cks 50 (upper) Mem “Tallahata Fm.” Ja und (“ wer Ypresian Ypresian Sene ? ? ? ? Blocher Mbr. 380 Lo Finger- Wasatchian lakesian (of New Albany Sh.) leogene ? ? ? Chattanooga Shale ? Wilcox Fm. Portwood Mbr. Clayton (lower) New Albany Shale Pa Clarkforkian (of New Albany Sh.) r Taghanic ? 56 Blocher Mbr. Formation Sweetland Creek Mbr. Givetian Givetian Portwood Mbr. Duffin bed ppe Thanetian Thanetian in southern Tioughniogan Tiffanian Sabinian U Illinois ian ? Boyle Do. Cazenovian Sellersburg Ls. ? Beechwood Mbr. Porters Creek Clay 60 on Mid. Selandian Selandian Torrejonian Silver Creek Mbr. Marcellus Shale Erian Clayton Middle Grand ? 390 Eifelian Eifelian Tower ? Paleocene Formation Jeffersonville Limestone Onondaga wer Group Dev Ls. South- Danian Danian Midway Puercan woodian Lo Midwayan Dutch Creek Ss. Limestone Tioga “B” McNairy McNairy 66 ? K-bentonite, ? “Owl Creek Fm.” Owl Creek Onondaga (undivided) Formation Maastrichtian Maastrichtian and Formation, McNairy Fm. 70 in southern Clear Illinois Virginia Navarroan Fms. Creek Emsian Emsian 400 ? “Coffee sand” Limestone ear Creek Ls. ear Creek Clayton ? McNairy Fm. Cl ? Esopusian Clear Clear CreekChert Previously Onesquethawan nian nian (The McNairy Formation wer pa ? pa of western Kentucky may Backbone Limestone Tayloran ? “Post Creek Fm.” contain some of the Lo ciozoseM Oriskany Coffee sand and Post 80 Ulsterian Grassy Cam Cam Creek Formation of Deer Pragian Siegenian Knob Grassy Knob Limestone ? Sandstone bordering states) Parkian Chert 410 ?? Upper Gulfian Santonian Santonian stinian (The Tuscaloosa Flat Flat Gap Helderberg Au Formation in western Lochkovian Gedinnian Cretaceous Gap Coniacian Coniacian Kentucky may be Limestone Limestone younger than at its Ls. type location) 90 Helderbergian 419 Turonian Turonian ? li 420 do Bailey Limestone Tuscaloosa Fm. none Pridoli Bailey Brownsport Fm. Salina Pri Limestone Decatur Ls. ? ? Cayugan Lobelville Mbr. Dolomite w Eaglefordian Ludfordian Bob Member Cenomanian Cenomanian Ludlow Moccasin Moccasin Beech River Mbr. (Previously (Previously Upper) Ludlo Springs Fm. Dixon Ls. Gorstian Springs Lockport Lego Ls. Louisville Ls. 100.5 Lock- Fm. Dolomite Homerian portian Waldron Sh. ? 430 Wenlock St. Clair Laurel Do. Bisher Do. Keefer Ss. Middle) St. Clair urian Unconformity (Triassic, Jurassic, and Lower to Middle Cretaceous strata are absent in Kentucky) (Previously Sheinwoodian Wenlock Limestone Limestone Osgood Fm. le il Estill Shale Mbr. Crab Orchard Fm. of Crab Orchard Fm. ha S rd Fm.rd ntonian Niagaran Waco Ls. Mbr. ha Changhsingian 252 ? ? ? ? Lee Creek Mbr. Cli Lulbegrud Sh. Mbr. Alger S wer) Paleozoic Telychian Drowning Orc RoseSh. Hill Lo Oldham Ls. Mbr. ? ? ? Sexton Creek Ls. Brassfield Do. Plum Creek Sh. Mbr. ab Creek Fm. Ochoan Cr Wuchiapingian Aeronian Alexandrian 440 Lopingian Tuscarora (Previously (Previously Llandovery Llandovery Rhuddanian Brassfield Do. Brassfield Mbr. S andstone 260 Belfast Mbr. (of Brassfield Do.) of Drowning Creek Fm. Hirnantian Bull Fork Fm. Drakes Fm. 444 Upper Gamachian Capitanian Western Grant Lake Ls. Elliott County kimberlite Tatarian Drakes Fm. Fairview Kentucky ” Ashgillian Fm. Cumber- an Richmondian Bull Fork Fm. in Juniata Fm. Fluorspar land Fm. vici lupian lupian Mud Cave District Katian Maquoketa Shale Grant Lake Ls. Ashlock Fm. ded do surface (Ordovician VI) Maysvillian Leipers Fm. Calloway Ck. Fm. Garrard Slt. ivi (Millbrig) dikes ub Wordian s Martins- Cincinnatian 450 Clays Kope Fm. Clays Ferry or Kope Fm. und ada ada Edenian Clays K-bentonite Ferry Fm. Pt. Pleasant tongue Or “U. burg Fm. Western t- Shermanian Ferry ? ha Fm. Gu Gu Kirkfieldian cian C Kimmswick Ls. Lexington Ls. Lexington Ls. Upper fieldian Trenton Ls. Kentucky wkian Rocklandian Roadian Kazanian Tyrone Ls./Oregon Fm. do High High Fluorspar Black High Bridge Group oha Plattin Ls. Elliott Sandbian Plattin Ls. Bridge Camp Bridge M Riveran (Black River Group) District Turinian Group Nelson Gp. Gp. County (Ordovician V) Pecatonica Ls. Pecatonica Ls. igneous Cara Wells ? ? an Joachim and Joachim Do. igneous Creek Wells Creek Wells Creek Leonardian intrusions zy Dutchtown Fms. Pencil Cave Dutchtown Fm. Dolomite Dolomite Kungurian Kungurian intrusion undivided Dolomite 460 (Deicke) Cha ? ? ? Permian Llanviran St. Peter Ss. St. Peter Ss. St. Peter Ss. St. Peter Ss. K-bentonite ? 280 Darriwilian Middle med previously Champlainian Series vician Middle Whiterockian unna Everton Do. do Dapingian Artinskian Artinskian (Ord. III) Near Tennessee: Near Tennessee: Or Rangerian Black Rock Mbr. 470 Mascot Do. Mascot Do. n Cisuralian Kingsport Do. ck- Kingsport Do. ? Arenig Smithville Fm. sian inia “upper Knox” 290 Floian la ? Waverly Arch ill “upper Longview Do. Longview Do. B ? (Arenigian, h Powell Do. Knox” undivided Cass ian ian Series Sakmarian Sakmarian Wolfcampian Ordovician II) ? n Cotter Dolomite ad wer er- Shakopee ian ? wer ff ulea on T Jefferson City Do. Je Lo Dolomite s ? Lo ? Asselian Asselian Mauzy Fm. Roubidoux