Geology and fossils in Kentucky and adjacent states
The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers during the
drought of 1988, with Paul Potter
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Dr. Paul Potter, terra rosa overlain by loess,
western Kentucky
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terra rosa overlain by loess
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sand bar, Williams Light. Early Fall of 1988, drought
of 1988
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same sand bar
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another view
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another view
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same place, Mississippi River in background
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mid-channel bars at Wolf Island, upstream to left
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Kentucky Point, near mile 892?, looking upstream
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same point, looking upstream
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New Madrid Island, near Watsons Point, looking
upstream
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Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee
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bar
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New Madrid Island, near Watsons Point, looking
upstream
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Island No. 9, upstream to right
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Island No. 9, upstream to right
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Island No. 8, near French Point, looking downstream
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French Point looking downstream to Bend of Island
No. 8
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Island No. 6, with crevasse splay, looking downstream
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Medley Bar, sandbar?, downstream to left
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Williams Light sandbar?, looking upstream
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Williams Light sandbar?
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Williams Light sandbar?, looking downstream
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mid-channel bars near Wolf Island, looking upstream
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mid-channel bars near Wolf Island, looking downstream
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mid-channel bars, upstream to left
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New Madrid, Missouri
Field work in the Jackson Purchase area with
Bill Olive, John Kiefer, Gene Amaral and Jack Masters
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Stop 1: Calvert City Quad., "Tuscaloosa gravel",
Gene Amaral for scale. [Jun 91 1] [Kodachrome, Kodalux yellow stripe
mount]
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same place, railroad cut, "Tuscaloosa gravel"
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Stop 6: Elva Quad., sandstone dikes in Porters Creek
clay, Gene for scale
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same place
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sandstone dike, same place
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Stop 8: Oak Level Quad., Wilcox sandstone channels
with clay clasts
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sandstone channels with clay clasts, same place
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clay clasts, same place
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Stop 10: Hico Quad., Independence site, site 1,
K/T boundary at upper mid level in photo, from base of card upward to about
one foot
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K/T boundary, same place, it may be a paraconformable
relationship
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K/T boundary, same place
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K/T boundary, same place, leaves raked away
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Stop 10: Hico Quad., Independence site, site 2
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Stop 12: Hico Quad., McNairy glass sand, blow-outs
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same place
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McNairy glass sand and Ophiomorpha burrows
(formed by Callianassa? shrimp)
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Stop 14: Hico Quad., McNairy sandstone, duricrust
(encasement)
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McNairy sandstone duricrust outcrop, same place
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McNairy sandstone, same place
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Stop 15: Buchanan Quad., Tennessee, mineralization
in gravel pit
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same place
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colors from mineralization, same place
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Stop 16: Paducah East Quad., Reidland site,
McNairey/Clayton boundary (K/T), Jack Masters' outcrop
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same place, K/T boundary at his hand, according
to Jack
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same place, Jack's hand marks K/T boundary (is
it paraconformable?)
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Stop 17: Paducah East Quad., Riverview, active landslide block [scan failed,
need to redo]
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same place [scan failed, need to redo]
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Stop 19: Bardana Quad., Illinois, Post Creek cutoff
(canal), Ullim Limestone overlain by McNairy sandstone
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Stop 20: Olmstead Quad., Illinois, modern mudcracks
along Ohio River
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same place, Porters Creek clay, curved joints
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same place, curved joints
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same place, Porters Creek clay, abundant horizontal
burrows
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Stop 23a: Arlington Quad., Columbus boat ramp;
recent fluvial sand
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same place, recent fluvial sand deposit
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same place, recent landslide block
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Stop 23b: Arlington Quad., Columbus boat ramp,
thick loess deposit
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Stop 25: Acorn Ridge Quad.?, Missouri, old gravel
quarry; McNairy duricrusts (K), slumped into Lafayette gravel channel (Pleisto.)
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same place, McNairy blocks slumped into Lafayette
gravel
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same place, Bill Olive in hat
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same place, sandstone on right, slumped into Lafayette
gravel deposit on left side
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same place, Lafayette gravel deposits
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same place, uncemented McNairy sand with faint
Ophiomorpha burrows
Jackson Purchase area, Kentucky Geological Society Field Trip 1972
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McNairy sand, near Olmsted, Illinois, Calvin's
Creek [this and the following in this sleeve were probably taken by Norm
Hester]
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same place, McNairy sand
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Tuscaloosa gravel near Kentucky Dam, Kentucky
Geological Society Field Trip 1972, subtle large scale bedding, very poor
sorting, "mass debris flow deposition"
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Tuscaloosa gravel near Kentucky Dam, KGS field
trip 1972
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McNairy sand, near Olmsted, Illinois, Upper McNairy,
Watson's Creek, "estuarine environment"
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Ophiomorpha burrows, KGS field trip 1972
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Upper McNairy sand, near Dam 53, Watson's Creek,
"estuarine"
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Calvin's Creek, near Olmsted, Illinois, ancient
soil developed on the Levings Member, a "lagoonal deposit"
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Watson's Creek near Olmsted, Illinois, preparing
cast of Ophiomorpha burrows, summer 1972 [failed scan, need to rescan]
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Watson's Creek near Dam 53, Illinois, large scale glauconite sand near
Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary [failed scan, need to rescan]
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Watson's Creek near Olmsted, Illinois, preparing
cast of Ophiomorpha burrow, rapid(?) plastic
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Ophiomorpha, McNairy sand, Kentucky
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Ophiomorpha, same place, McNairy sand between
Paducah and Kentucky Dam
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Ophiomorpha, same place
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Ophiomorpha, same place
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Ophiomorpha, same place
Pine Mountain State Park, view from Chain
Rock
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Cumberland River from Pine Mountain State Park,
looking toward the northeast. Pine Mountain is on the left [25]
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view of Pineville from Pine Mountain [26] [failed scan, need to rescan]
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Cumberland River from Pine Mountain State Park, looking toward the northeast.
Pine Mountain is on the left [24] [failed scan, need to rescan]
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Chained Rock, Pine Mountain State Park, Jim Cobb
on rock, the Narrows of the Cumberland can be seen below [28]
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US 119 between Pineville and Harlan, Pine Mountain
dip slope
Old quarry in Livingston Conglomerate,
Rockcastle County
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top of Livingston Conglomerate, Stop 5, Day 5,
Ettensohn and Dever, 1979, p. 185, Rockcastle County; they look dune form
to me and the slope is a cross bed.
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Old quarry in Livingston Conglomerate, top of
conglomerate can be seen here, same place at above
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Old quarry, same place
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same place, creased slide
Laurel Lake Spillway
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Laurel Spillway, upper level with flowing water
[Sep 76] [UK mount]
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upper spillway with water [Sep 76]
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Laurel Spillway, mid-level, flowing water [Sep
76] [UK mount]
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Rockcastle Sandstone in roadcut at base of Laurel
Lake dam, Laurel County
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Laurel Dam spillway, upper part [Jul 88 1]
[Kodachrome, red label]
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note curved lineations and cross beds, upper part
of spillway
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trough cross beds, upper part of spillway
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ripple marks, upper spillway, Steve Greb
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note complex ripples, upper spillway
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ripple fans in troughs, upper spillway
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series of ripple fans and troughs, upper spillway
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ripple fans and asymmetric troughs, upper spillway
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asymmetric trough, slabs moved by water running
over spillway during high water
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modern, stair-stepped channel in upper part of
spillway
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two styles of ripples, upper spillway
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first waterfall, mid-level part of spillway, Rockcastle
Sandstone at base, level of Barren Fork coal near ladder, Pine Creek sandstone
in upper part
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same view of waterfall, Steve Greb on ladder
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bottom waterfall, lower part of spillway, lower
part of Rockcastle Sandstone
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bottom waterfall, same place
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at bottom waterfall, pool is Laurel River, below
the dam
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bottom waterfall, another view
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orb-type spider web at lower spillway
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overturned crossbeds, Pine Creek? sandstone, mid-level
of spillway
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arch at mid-level of spillway
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big curved crossbeds, Rockcastle Sandstone, lower
part of spillway
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crossbeds, same place
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Rockcastle Sandstone in lower half, background
cliff is Pine Creek sandstone, lower spillway
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ripple fans, Laurel Lake Spillway [Oct 88 5]
[white plastic mounts]
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ladderback ripples [Oct 88 2]
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ripple fans, same place [Oct 88 4]
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ladderback ripples [Oct 88 3]
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ripples in trough
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ripples in trough
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ripple fan
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multi-crested ripples
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bridge at top of spillway
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multi-crested ripples
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sweeping crossbeds, Rockcastle Sandstone, lower
spillway
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indistinct lunate? ripples, upper spillway
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Zoophycos and horizontal burrows, top of
Pine Creek sandstone, mid-level of spillway
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Rhizocorallium, top of Pine Creek sandstone,
mid-level of spillway
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Zoophycos, top of Pine Creek sandstone,
mid-level of spillway
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clay-chip conglomerate bed, upper spillway
Breaks Interstate Park
Frenchburg North outcrops
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Corbin Sandstone in upper part of roadcut, Frenchburg
North locality [Jun 91 20] [Kodachrome, Kodalux yellow stripes]
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Corbin Sandstone and Breathitt-type shale, Frenchburg
North
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Corbin Sandstone and Breathitt-type shale, same
place, note channel
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Corbin Sandstone and underlying Hazel Patch sandstone,
Frenchburg North locality
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Hazel Patch sandstone and Dave Branch Shale, Frenchburg
North locality
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Hazel Patch sandstone, Steve Greb, same place
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Dave Branch shale (dark shale), Lingula
bed (coal-like band), karst-fill (lighter shale), and paleokarstic Slade
Formation (limestone) at base.
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Karst fill and Slade remnant, Lingula band
at very top, Frank Ettensohn
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Lingula from Lingula band, unusual
color patterns may reflect internal structures
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Dave Branch shale and karst features, same place
Cave Branch area
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Corbin Sandstone and underlying Breathitt-type
shales, south of Cave Branch, Stop 4, fig.55 of Dever and others, 1977
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same place, at top is thin outcrop of Breathitt-type
shales and coal, underlying that is Paragon Formation shales and then the
Slade Formation limestone in the lower half
Gregoryville area, I-64
Pikeville, Model City cut
Fieldwork in McCreary County
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Cumberland Falls at flood stage [May 77 6]
[generic mount, red print]
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small natural bridge, McCreary County? [Dec 80
21] [Kodachrome, red square]
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steep jeep trail leading to Blue Heron coal tipple,
cliff to left, road breaking apart and falling, field work in McCreary County,
summer 1979 [10] [white plastic mount]
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steep road to Blue Heron coal tipple, cliff drops
off to left, McCreary County
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view from road that was breaking apart as I was
driving on it
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small natural bridge, Steve Hoke walking on it,
Blue Heron area, McCreary County
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well-built trestle for Stearns coal mines along
valley bottoms, South Fork of the Cumberland River, McCreary County
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Blue Heron coal tipple, 1979, McCreary County
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Natural Arch area, McCreary County
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Natural Arch, Natural Arch Scenic Area, Nevelsville
Quad., McCreary County [7]
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Rock Creek, McCreary County, 1979 [2] [white
plastic mount]
Fieldwork in Letcher County
Fieldwork in Harlan County
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view of Cumberland Mountain (from Martins Fork
Lake?), dip slope, Hubbard Springs Quad., Harlan County
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closer view, same place
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Pennington Gap area, Cumberland Mountain
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same place
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view of Cumberland Mountain from Little Black
Mountian??, Evarts Quad., Harlan County [Dec 79 10] [Ektachrome, red
square]
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contour bench, surface mine, Little Black Mountain,
Evarts Quad. [Dec 79 10]
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view of Black Mountain?, from Evarts Quad.
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view of Cumberland Mountain from Little Black Mountain
contour bench
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view of Cumberland Mountain from same place
Miscellaneous fieldwork
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Carter Caves Sandstone, Carter Caves State Park
[Aug 76 30] [Ektachrome, red square]
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countryside, eastern Kentucky, don't remember where
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Pennsylvanian-age slump into Mississippian Paragon
Formation, bottoming out on top of the Bangor/Poppin Rock Limestone, I-75
between the two Mt. Vernon exits, west side, Rockcastle County [Oct 80
34] [Kodachrome, red square]
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outcrop on US23 [Apr 88 32]
Cores
Archaeological dig, 1982 near Winchester
Hazel Patch sandstone, I-75 and vicinity
Cumberland Gap and Cumberland Mountain
area
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Cumberland Mountain dip slope, looking southwest
from Cumberland Gap
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view of Middlesboro from Cumberland Gap looking
westward, dark slide
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Pinnacle Overlook, Cumberland Gap, looking into
Virginia
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same view, dark slides
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view toward Tennessee from Cumberland Gap, dark
slide
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Cumberland Gap Iron Furnace, Pinnacle Overlook
in far background, handheld long exposure
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same furnace
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Cumberland Mountain at I-75 and Lafollette, looking
northeast, "Devils Fingers" [Apr 80 2] [Ektachrome?, generic mount, red print]
Stevens Hill, Chester Series, western Kentucky,
May 1988
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Stevens Hill
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same roadcut
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same roadcut, farther to the right
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ripple marks, Stevens Hill
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roadcut, Stevens Hill
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roadcut, Stevens Hill
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roadcut, Stevens Hill
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roadcut, Stevens Hill
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roadcut, Stevens Hill
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roadcut, Stevens Hill
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roadcut, Stevens Hill
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roadcut, Stevens Hill
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roadcut, Stevens Hill
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roadcut, Stevens Hill
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roadcut, Stevens Hill
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roadcut, Stevens Hill
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roadcut, Stevens Hill
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roadcut, Stevens Hill
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roadcut, Stevens Hill
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roadcut, Stevens Hill
Field Trip to Illinois Basin, 1988
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Stop 1: Columbia roadcut, Illinois, Warsaw Sh.,
Ullin Limestone and Salem Limestone
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same roadcut, Steve Greb for scale
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Stop 2: Quality Stone Company, Illinois, Valmeyeran
Series
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same quarry
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Stop 3?: Modoc, Aux Vases Sandstone and Ste.
Genevieve/St. Louis Limestones, Jim Cobb and Blaine Cecil
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same stop
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Stop 4: abandoned quarry, Randolph Stone Company,
Haney, Hardinsburg, and Glen Dean
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Stop 5: Coles Mill roadcut, Illinois, Glen Dean,
Tar Springs, Vienna Limestone
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same stop
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Stop 6: Captain Mine of Arch of Illinois, Springfield
and Herrin coals
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same mine
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same mine
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same mine, didn't scan
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Stop 7: Burning Star No. 5 Mine of Consolidation
Coal Company, Springfield and Herrin coals
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same mine
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same mine
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Stop 8: Spillway of Devil's Kitchen Lake and Little
Grassy Lake Sandstone of Abbott Formation, abundant trace fossils
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same spillway, note ripple fans
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Stop 9: Mississippian/Pennsylvanian unconformity
on US 51, Illinois, Caseyville sandstone to Kinkaid Limestone contact
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same exposure
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Stop 11: I-24, about 100 meters of section across
several roadcuts, Abbott and Caseyville Formations, this picture shows sandstone,
shale, Reynoldsburg coal of the Abbott Formation
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same stop, Abbott Formation
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Abbott Formation, same stop
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closer view, same stop
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Pound Sandstone, Caseyville Formation, same stop
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same sandstone
Field work in Western Kentucky Coal Field, 1988
Field work in the Cumberland Saddle near
Burkesville, late 1990's
Field trip with Tradewater Working Group,
1989: Whetstone Quarry
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Salem Limestone, Bloomington, Indiana, Tradewater
Working Group field trip [Feb 89 6]
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the Salem, Eric Kvale on right
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tidal rhythmites, Salem Limestone, same place
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cyclical rhythmites, close-up
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Eric Kvale, Whetstone Quarry, Indiana, also Rick
Sergeant, Norm Hester
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Lepidodendron, Whetstone Beds, same quarry
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lycopod cone, same quarry
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seed fern, same quarry
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Lepidodendron, same quarry
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Lepidophyllum, same quarry
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vertical stump, probably lycopod, Steve Greb, same
quarry
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nice ripples, same quarry
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same ripples
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tidal rhythmite beds in outcrop, same quarry
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trace fossils, compaction features and plant fossils,
same quarry
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same rock
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small trace fossils can be seen, same quarry
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loading structures?, same quarry
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loading structures?, Whetstone Beds, same quarry
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more loading structures, same quarry
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dewatering structure "volcano," same quarry
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limulid track (horse-shoe crab) in Whetstone bed,
same quarry
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another limulid track, same quarry
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trace fossils?, probably washed out impressions
of Lepidophyllum leaves (note enlarged leaf base), not like
Diplocraterion, Whetstone Quarry, Indiana [Feb 89]
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cyclical rhythmites, Whetstone Beds, Indiana, from
Eric Kvale
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cyclical rhythmites, same place, from Eric Kvale
Field trip with Tradewater Working Group,
1990: Turkey Foot Creek State Park
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sculpture at Turkey Foot Creek State Park, Indiana
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note crossbeds in sandstone, same park
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crossbeds in sandstone, Jim Cobb
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crossbeds in sandstone, same outcrop
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gorge through sandstone, same park
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more outcrops
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contorted bedding, Al Archer
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walk through gorge, Steve Greb
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tidal rhythmites, Eric Kvale
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close-up of rhythmites
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close-up of rhythmites
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cyclical rhythmites indicative of tidal influence
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tidal deposits, Al Archer, one-year's deposition?
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close-up of tidal deposits
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vertical stump? in tidal deposits, indicating short
interval of time for deposition
Pound Gap
AA Highway, northeastern Kentucky, Spring 1998
Middlesboro astrobleme
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exposure on outskirts of Middlesboro, showing chaotic
bedding, slumps at edge of Middlesboro astrobleme, US 25E [Sep 95 1]
[Kodachrome, Kodak Premium yellow stripe]
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same outcrop
US 25E between Pineville and Barboursville
International Carboniferous Congress, 1979 Field
Trip in Kentucky
US80 between London and Somerset
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Rockcastle Sandstone, note very large cross beds,
Chuck Rice for scale, US80 near Rockcastle River
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close-up, same place
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Poison Honey beds, debris flow deposit, type locality,
US80 near Pine Creek
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Poison Honey beds, same place
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same beds
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same beds
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Poison Honey beds
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ripple drifts on cross beds, Rockcastle Sandstone,
US80 near Rockcastle River, John Nelson
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same place, John Nelson
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ripple drifts, Rockcastle Sandstone, same place
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ripple drifts, same place
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sideritized lycopod cone in sandstone (weathered
to hematite, etc), west of Rockcastle River, US80
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polished slab, Poison Honey beds, Laurel County
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polished slab, same beds
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polished slab, same beds
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Poison Honey beds
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same
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same
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same beds
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same beds
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same beds
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same beds
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same beds
Cave, BBC Making of a Continent,
filming at Short Creek, Pulaski County, 1985
Raven Run
Okeefenokee Swamp, 1983
Olive Hill flint clay
Fire Clay coal and the Hell for Certain tonstein
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Hell for Certain flint clay (flint clay parting
of the Fire Clay coal)
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Fire Clay coal, upper bench (common bright banded,
39"), Hell for Certain flint clay (5.5"), lower bench (common bright banded,
15"), Jenkins West Quadrangle
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Hell for Certain flint clay, from (Hyden West)
Daniel Boone road cut?
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Don Triplehorn, Fire Clay coal and Hell for Certain
flint clay, Jenkins West Quadrangle
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Fire Clay coal and flint clay, Jenkins West Quadrangle
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Fire Clay coal and flint clay, same place
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Hell for Certain flint clay (Fire Clay coal parting),
Hyden West Quad.
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Fire Clay coal
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Fire Clay coal, Jenkins West
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Hell for Certain flint clay, Fire Clay coal
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same flint clay
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several copies of photos of Mt. St. Helens eruption [not scanned]
West Virginia to Georgia coal field trip,
GSA Atlanta meeting 1985
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obscure outcrop, Virginia,
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Stop 5: Pinnacle Rock State Park, Virginia, Stony
Gap Sandstone, p. 47 (1985)
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Stony Gap Sandstone, same place
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same sandstone
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Stop 6: Pocahontas Exhibition Mine, West Virginia,
p. 47-49, Bill Gillespie, Ken Englund, Blaine Cecil
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The Stone Face Rock Holy Bible Store, etc.
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same store
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same store, Jim Cobb
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same store, Jim Cobb, Frances Pierce
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close-up of same
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Stone Face Rock, Virginia
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same rock
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same view
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botryoidal hematite, goethite, limonite [Feb 86]
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same iron oxide minerals
Sloans Valley Cave, a number of visits
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Sloans Valley Cave with group from Laurel County
and Phoenix Kayaks from Jackson County [Jan 76 1] [Ektachrome, red
square]
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crawlway near Post Office Entrance
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looking up at Annetta, negotiating a slippery crack
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Kenneth, same crack
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same crack
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getting through, same crack (note moisture from
breathing)
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same crack
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Kenneth backing down small hole
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Steve backing down same hole
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Linda, same muddy hole
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same hole
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Kenneth through the hole
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Tom Wilson backing down the hole
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upright walking for awhile
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little waterfall on way to Big Room (from Post
Office)
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climbing around the edge near the waterfall
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waterfall
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Big Room, light streaks are people walking around
with their headlamps, time exposure
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Big Room again, time exposure
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going down to the wet cave (now sumped under)
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walking back from the Indian Cave entrance, wet,
muddy and cold, January
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Anne walking back
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muddy cavers
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muddy cavers
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back at the vehicles
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chimneying down the Post Office Entrance, another
trip [faint embossed Nov 77?]
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coming down the entrance
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Anne farther down the chimney
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Mary Nell in crawlway of Sloans Valley Cave
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Mary Nell backing down hole
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Linda backing down hole
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Wilma backing down the hole
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Anne's turn
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Linda and Anne in crawlway
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the waterfall
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dark, flat-roofed walkway, same cave
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cavers, happy to be out
Kentucky River Palisades
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Kentucky River Palisades from Brooklyn Bridge,
looking downstream, Wilmore Quad., Jan 23, 2001 [Ektachrome]
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same
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same place, looking upstream
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same
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same, looking upstream
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same
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same
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same
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northeast bank and tunnel, Kentucky River, from
Brooklyn Bridge, same place
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northeast bank, Palisades, same place
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same
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looking downstream from the bridge
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same
Argentina glaciation, files also copied to Argentina folder
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Stop 1: dropstones, Hoyada Verde Formation, p.
16
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Stop 1: striated cobbles from boulder pavement,
Hoyada Verde Formation, p. 16, Argentina
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Stop 2: back to Jachal, dropstone in Guandacol
Formation, Namurian, Argentina
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Stop 2: back to Jachal, dropstone in Guandacol
Formation, Namurian
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Stop 2: back to Jachal, dropstones in Guandacol
Formation, Namurian
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Stop 1: striated boulder pavement with railhead
structures, Hoyada Verde Formation
KGS Paleontology lab, brand new
Falls of the Ohio, during the Drought of
1988; also very hot, about 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and lots of dead and decaying
fish
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Dam at Falls of the Ohio
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extensive exposures
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extensive exposures, low river, same view
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Steve Greb wading Ohio River to get to best exposures
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Steve
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Siphonodendron? rugose coral
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lots of small coral and stroms, Emmonsia
ramosa mostly
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wet surface, provided by buckets of water, really
enhanced the contrast, Emmonsia ramosa mostly
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more corals and stroms, Emmonsia ramosa
mostly
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more of the same, Emmonsia ramosa mostly
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softer coral is more easily eroded than the bedrock,
Hexagonaria coral head
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Turbonopsis snail
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Siphonophrentis
giganteas rugose coral
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same type rugose horn coral
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same coral, wet
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Amphipora
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tabulate coral?
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Turbonopsis shumardi snail
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abundant small brachiopods, Brevispirifer
gregarius
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another Turbonopsis snail
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pelecypods, same area
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corals or stroms
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stromatoporoid, Falls of the Ohio
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pool at Falls of the Ohio??
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stromatoporoid (gray) and coral (white),
Steve Greb
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Siphonophrentis giganteas rugose
coral
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Siphonophrentis rugose coral,
Falls of the Ohio
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variety of coral, Falls of the Ohio
Arthrodire fish locality, Upper Devonian
black shale, northeastern Kentucky
Mississippian geology, ca 1982
Ordovician fossils from Kentucky
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Upper Ordovician fossil slab with
trilobites, bryozoans, brachiopods, gastropods, northern Kentucky
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Flexicalymene meeki trilobite,
enrolled
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Diplograptus graptolites,
Ordovician
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Streptolasma horn coral [has
another name now], same
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Ordovician brachiopods
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massive bryozoan, Ordovician
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Isotelus trilobites, Ordovician,
central Kentucky
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Flexicalymene trilobites and
a trilobite trace fossil, Ordovician
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orthocone nautiloids, Ordovician
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Ordovician slab, trilobites, bryozoans,
gastropods, brachiopods, northern Kentucky
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Streptelasma, Ordovician horn
coral [has new name]
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common Ordovician brachiopods
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common Ordovician brachiopods
Silurian and Devonian fossils from Kentucky
Mississippian fossils from Kentucky
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Archimedes fenestrate bryozoan
axis, Mississippian
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Mississippian slab, abundant fenestrate
bryozoans and small ramose bryozoans
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Archimedes fenestrate bryozoan
axes
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fenestrate bryozoan
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Lyropora or
Lyroporella fenestrate bryozoans
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Septopora fenestrate bryozoan
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Anthracospirifer increbescens
brachiopod
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Cleiothyridina sublamellosa
brachiopod
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platycerid gastropods, Mississippian
age
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tiny gastropods
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bellerophontid gastropods, steinkerns
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Mississippian-age trilobites
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Archimedes axes and
Taxocrinus
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crinoid stems, chert, Fort Payne
Formation, Mississippian
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flexible crinoid, Glen Dean, Leitchfield
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attachment area, wing plates of crinoid
Pterotocrinus depressus
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tiny crinoids
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Eupachycrinus, Sloans Valley
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Aenigmocrinus and
Phanocrinus crinoids
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crinoid plates including
Tholocrinus? tegmenal spine
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Pentremites blastoid
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Pentremites blastoid
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Pentremites blastoid
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Pentremites with brachioles
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Eupachycrinus crinoid
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Phanocrinus crinoids, mostly
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spiny crinoids, tegmenal spines of
spiny crinoids
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Agassizocrinus infrabasal cones
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Phacelocrinus crinoid
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Aphelecrinus crinoid
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Phacelocrinus crinoid
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Acrocrinus dorsal cup plates?
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Pterotocrinus depressus crinoid,
tiny specimen
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Pterotocrinus depressus cup
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Pterotocrinus depressus wingplates
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Pterotocrinus acutus, flat-bladed
wingplate
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Pterotocrinus acutus, sharp-pointed
wingplate
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Pterotocrinus acutus var
bifurcatus, bifurcated wingplate
Mississippian echinoderms, Sloans Valley member, Masters Thesis
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Acrocrinus
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Acrocrinus
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Acrocrinus
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Acrocrinus
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Aenigmocrinus
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Aenigmocrinus
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Aenigmocrinus
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Ampelocrinus
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Anartiocrinus
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Anartiocrinus
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Aphelecrinus
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Aphelecrinus
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Aphelecrinus
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Aphelecrinus
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Bicidiocrinus
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Bicidiocrinus
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Cymbiocrinus
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Cymbiocrinus
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Cymbiocrinus
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Cymbiocrinus
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Cymbiocrinus
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Dasciocrinus
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Eupachycrinus
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Epachycrinus
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Eupachycrinus
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Hyrtanecrinus
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Linocrinus
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Onychocrinus
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Onychocrinus
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Onychocrinus
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Onychocrinus
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Pentaramicrinus
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Pentaramicrinus
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Phacelocrinus
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Phacelocrinus
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Phacelocrinus
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Phacelocrinus
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Phacelocrinus
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Phanocrinus
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Phanocrinus
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Phanocrinus
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Phanocrinus
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Phanocrinus
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Pterotocrinus acutus var.
spondylus
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Pterotocrinus acutus with
platycerid gastropod on tegmen
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Pterotocrinus acutus var
spondylus with platycerid gastropod on tegmen
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Pulaskicrinus
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Pulaskicrinus
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Pulaskicrinus
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Pulaskicrinus
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Pulaskicrinus
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Pulaskicrinus
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Pulaskicrinus
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Pulaskicrinus with starfish
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Pulaskicrinus with starfish
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Ramulocrinus
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Ramulocrinus
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Ramulocrinus
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starfish
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Taxocrinus
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Taxocrinus
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Taxocrinus
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Tholocrinus
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Tholocrinus tegmenal cap
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Tholocrinus
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Tholocrinus
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Tholocrinus
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Tholocrinus
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Zeacrinites
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Zeacrinites
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Zeacrinites
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masters thesis plates
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Plate 9, Pentremites and
edrioasteroids
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Plate 12, starfish
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Plate 8, Pulaskicrinus, Aphelecrinus,
Ampelocrinus
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Plate, Pterotocrinus
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Plate, Phanocrinus
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Plate, Dasciocrinus, Cymbiocrinus,
Aenigmocrinus
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Plate, Archaeocidaris
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Plate, Phacelocrinus,
Pulaskicrinus
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Plate, edrioasteroid
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Plate, Zeacrinites, Bicidiocrinus,
Linocrinus, etc.
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Plate, Eupachycrinus,
Onychocrinus
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Plate, Anartiocrinus, Agassizocrinus,
Ramulocrinus
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Plate, Phacelocrinus,
Pulaskicrinus
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Plate, Hyrtanecrinus, Camptocrinus,
Dichocrinus, Acrocrinus
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Plate, Pterotocrinus acutus
var.
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Plate, Taxocrinus, Pterotocrinus
acutus var.
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Plate, Zeacrinites, Biciciocrinus,
Tholocrinus, etc.
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Plate, Dasciocrinus, Cymbiocrinus,
Phacelocrinus, etc.
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Plate, Pulaskicrinus, Rhopocrinus,
Culmicrinus, etc.
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Plate, Ampelocrinus, Aphelecrinus,
Anartiocrinus, Agassizocrinus, etc.
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Plate, Phanocrinus, Eupachycrinus
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Plate, Onychocrinus, Taxocrinus,
Pterotocrinus acutus
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Plate, Pterotocrinus acutus
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Plate, Pterotocrinus depressus,
Hyrtanecrinus, Camptocrinus, Dichocrinus
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Plate, Acrocrinus, Pentremites
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Plate, echinoidea
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Plate, edrioasteroidea
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Plate, asteroids, ophiuroids
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unusual Pterotocrinus, not
from Kentucky, publication, not our copyright
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unusual Pterotocrinus, not
from Kentucky, publication, not our copyright
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Agassizocrinus, Ettensohn's
publication, not our copyright
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localities and lithologies
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Sloans Valley tunnel, type locality
for Sloans Valley member of the Paragon Formation
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southern outcrop at Sloans Valley
tunnel
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railroad cut, Pulaski County
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Laurel quarry
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railroad cut, Pulaski County
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railroad cut, Pulaski County
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railroad cut, Pulaski County
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pseudonodule, railroad cut
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quarry
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Laurel quarry
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Laurel quarry
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Laurel quarry
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Laurel quarry
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Laurel quarry
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Laurel quarry, level of hardground
or condensation surface
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Laurel quarry, sandstone
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Laurel quarry, hardground or condensation
surface, pyrite and phosphate nodules concentrated here
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Jackson County 1
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Jackson County 2
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polished slab
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Strunk Construction quarry, Tateville
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limestone quarry at Tateville, Pulaski County,
Poppin Rock is top limestone
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Laurel quarry
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railroad cut, Pulaski County
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railroad cut, Pulaski County
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railroad cut, Pulaski County
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polished surface, Sloans Valley member,
Pulaski County
Mississippian vertebrate fossils, holocephalian and chondrichthyan fish fossils
from the Slade Formation of eastern Kentucky
General invertebrate fossils, not from Kentucky
Pennsylvanian vertebrate fossils
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tetrapod trackway (terretrial amphibian
or primitive reptile) Early Pennsylvanian, south-central Kentucky
Pennsylvanian marine zones in eastern Kentucky
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Coal Cliff member between Stearns No. 2 coal at
bottom and Rockcastle Sandstone at top, Nevelsville Quad., McCreary County
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Coal Cliff member, Chuck Rice for scale, Stearns
No. 2 coal at base, Coal Cliff shale, Nevelsville Quadrangle, McCreary County
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Coal Cliff member type area, contour surface mine
in the Stearns No. 2 coal, Nevelsville? Quad., marine roof rock with abundant
marine fossils in thin zone. you can see a finger of the coal splayed upward
in the sandstone
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carbonate concretion from marine zone, eastern
Kentucky, near Hazard [Oct 80 18]
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carbonate concretion [Oct 80 23]
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carbonate concretion, Hazard bypass, Magoffin Member
[Oct 80 19]
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carbonate concretion draped by siderite band, Rt.
15 between Hazard and Whitesburg
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another carbonate concretion and same siderite
band, same outcrop
Pennsylvanian marine fossils
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common marine fossils from Pennsylvanian rocks
of eastern Kentucky, most from Magoffin
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common Pennsylvanian marine fossils
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orthocone nautiloids, Pennsylvanian, eastern Kentucky,
most likely Magoffin Member
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knobby, coiled nautiloids, Pennsylvanian
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coiled nautiloids, Metacoceras?, Magoffin
Member
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knobby, coiled nautiloids,
Metacoceras?
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knobby, coiled nautiloids,
Metacoceras?
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gastropods, Pennsylvanian
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gastropods from the Magoffin:
Pharkidonotus, Worthenia, Strobeus, Euphemites
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common gastropods from the Magoffin Member, eastern
Kentucky, Strobeus, Trepospira, Glabrocingula, Straparollus [check
sp.]
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common gastropods from the Magoffin, Worthenia,
Pharkodonatus, Euphemus, and a fat Strobeus [check sp.]
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gastropods from the Magoffin:
Trepospira, Strobeus, Straparollus, Glabrocingulum
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gastropods from the Magoffin:
Pharkidonotus, Worthenia, Strobeus, Euphemites
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gastropods from the Magoffin:
Trepospira, Strobeus, Straparollus, Glabrocingulum
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small bivalves from the Magoffin:
including Phestia, Nuculana, Astartella
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common small bivalves from the Magoffin, Phestia,
Nuculana, Astartella [check sp.]
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pectinid bivalve, eastern Kentucky, coated
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myalinid bivalve, Posidonia?, dark gray
shale, specimen coated
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Allorisma (Wilkingia) burrowing bivalves,
Pennsylvanian, eastern Kentucky
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small bivalves from the Magoffin:
including Phestia, Nuculana, Astartella
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Anthraconaia, fresh- or brackish-water myalinid
bivalve, eastern Kentucky
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linguloid brach, Breathitt Co. above
Hazard No. 5a coal, (Gil Cumbee)
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same,
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same
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Lingula, Pennsylvanian black shale, western
Kentucky (Gil Cumbee)
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Lingula, same
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linguloid brach, Breathitt Co. above
Hazard No. 5a coal, (Gil Cumbee)
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same,
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same
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Lingula, Pennsylvanian black shale, western
Kentucky (Gil Cumbee)
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Lingula, same
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Lingula, Frenchburg North,
Pennsylvanian
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Lingula, Pennsylvanian black
shale, western Kentucky
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chonetid brachiopod, Pennsylvanian,
eastern Kentucky
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articulate brachiopods from the Magoffin:
Composita, spiriferid and two productoids
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articulate brachiopods from the Pennsylvanian of
eastern Kentucky, mostly from the Magoffin Member
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chonetid brachiopod, Pennsylvanian
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chonetid brachiopod, Pennsylvanian,
eastern Kentucky
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articulate brachiopods from the Magoffin:
Composita, spiriferid and two productoids
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brachiopods and a bivalve (pelecypod),
Pennsylvanian
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crinoids from the Magoffin:
Paragassizocrinus infrabasal circlet, Plaxocrinus spiny
primibrachials
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crinoids, [repeat scan
here] from Magoffin Member, Paragassizocrinus infrabasal circlet,
primibrachial spines from Plaxocrinus
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crinoids from the Magoffin:
Paragassizocrinus infrabasal circlet, Plaxocrinus spiny
primibrachials
Pennsylvanian plant fossils
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vertical stump, Letcher County [Oct
80 26] [Kodachrome, red square]
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vertical tree stump, contour surface mine, Letcher
County [Oct 80 25]
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another tree stump, same place [Oct 80 24]
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long, horizontal lycopod log, upper sandstone,
above Stoney Fork Member, contour surface mine, Knott County, near Hindman
access road [Oct 80 17]
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various specimens of
Stigmaria
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Calamites
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Stigmaria, lycopod root
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fern or seed fern (Pecopteris
or Alethopteris)
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fern or seed fern (Pecopteris
or Alethopteris)
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Cordaites gymnosperm plant
limb
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Alethopteris [labeled
Neuropteris] seed fern
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Stigmaria, lycopod root
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Lepidophloios limb, lycopod
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seed ferns, eastern Kentucky, carbonaceous
compression, Neuropteris and Alethopteris
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Alethopteris seed fern,
compression, Pennsylvanian
Vertical tree stump, Inez Bypass, 1986
Upper Path Fork coal balls, 1980
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coal ball Upper Path Fork coal, Evarts Quad., Harlan
County, coal peel made by Tom Phillips
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coal ball peel, same coal
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coal peel, cordaite
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coal peel, same site
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coal peel, same coal
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coal peel
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coal peel, same coal
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coal peel
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my coal-ball locality, Upper Path Fork coal, Evarts
Quadrangle, Harlan County [Oct 80 1]
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coal-ball locality, same place
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large coal ball
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large coal ball
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coal peel,
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cordaite with growth rings, coal-ball
peel from Path Fork coal, peel made by Tom Phillips
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coal-ball peel, Pennsylvanian, not
from the Path Fork, gift from ICC 1979
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coal-ball peel, Pennsylvanian, not
from Path Fork coal
Pipe-organ plant structures (pictures by Jim Cobb
and Don Chesnut all mixed up) [1987]
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outcrop, upper bench
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level of pipe-organ fossils
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outcrop, upper bench
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outcrop, upper bench
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possible root structure
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outcrop with Jim Cobb, Molly Miller
and Don Chesnut
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panorama of outcrop
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pipe-organ structures
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panorama
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root structure?
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panorama
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outcrop, upper bench, structures in
this sandstone
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pipe-organ sandstone
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pipe-organ sandstone
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panorama, note sharp contact of sandstone
at this level
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cross section of structures
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side view of structures
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panorama
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cross section of structures
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panorama
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radiating roots at base
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outcrop, lower level
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pipe-organ structures, knife for scale,
photograph rotated to show life position
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outcrop, upper bench
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cross section of structures
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cross section of structures
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outcrop, upper bench
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outcrop, upper and lower benches,
sandstone unit
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pipe-organ structures
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pipe-organ structures, in situ
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pipe-organ structures, Jim Cobb for
scale
Big Bone Lick, 1964
Big Bone Lick inventory, Nebraska State Museum,
February 1995, grant from Kentucky Parks Department
Cenozoic and Quaternary mammals, Nebraska State Museum, not Big Bone Lick
material, but of general interest
Modern fauna and flora
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Thalassia and Udotea,
Bahamas?
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yellow mushroom (what kind?), McCreary County
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close-up of yellow mushrooms
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Running Strawberry Bush or Hearts-a-Bustin-With-Love
(Euonymus obovatus), McCreary County?
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Strawberry Bush, same
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Jewelweed aka Touch-Me-Nots (Impatiens
capensis), McCreary County
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field of sunflowers (Helianthus?) and others,
McCreary County
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Round-Leaved Fire Pink (Silene rotundifolia),
McCreary County
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Red Azalea (Rhododendron cumberlandense?),
Letcher County [Oct 80 11]
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Red Azalea (Rhododendron cumberlandense),
Letcher County [Oct 80 10] [Kodachrome, red square]
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Big Leaf Magnolia (Magnolia macrophylla),
Letcher County [Oct 80 5]
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Big Leaf Magnolia and William Maxson [Oct 80
7]
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Big Leaf Magnolia and William Maxson [Oct 80
9]
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Big Leaf Magnolia, Letcher County [Oct 80 6]
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Big Leaf Magnolia (Magnolia macrophylla),
from Letcher County, Donald
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an Aster (Aster) of some type, Letcher County
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Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis), eastern
Kentucky, don't remember where this photo was taken
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Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) and
others, McCreary County
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caterpillar of Saddleback Moth (Sibine
stimulea Clemens), I was stung by a whole bush full of these near the
old Blue Heron tipple, McCreary County (before it was built up for tourism)
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native scorpion (Centruroides?) from outcrop
at Yamacraw, Kentucky
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Black Widow spider (Latrodectus mactans)
from bench of contour surface mine in Leslie or Letcher Counties [Dec 79
16]
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Black Widow spider (Latrodectus mactans),
Leslie or Letcher Counties?; the spider was crawling toward my hand as I
was photographing it with the other [Dec 79 15]
Hiking and Camping
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winter camp at Cane Creek, near confluence with
Rockcastle River, Steve Chesnut and Joe Westbrook [Jun 74 7] [Kodachrome,
red square]
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winter camp, same place
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Cane Creek near camping site
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Cane Creek, same place
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fishing at Cane Creek
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fish from Cane Creek
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Joe fishing at Cane Creek
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turbulent water at Cane Creek
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natural bridge, Cromers Ridge, northern Laurel
County [Oct 75 8] [Kodachrome, red square]
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natural bridge, same place
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unusual natural bridge, same place
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same place
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natural bridge from the other side
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Rockcastle River with fog, at Bee Rock, [very faint
Nov 77?] [generic white mount]
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fog on the Rockcastle, same place
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view of landslide area from Bee Rock
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the Rockcastle Narrows in fog
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the Rockcastle Narrows in fog
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the Rockcastle Narrows in fog
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fast water over the Narrows
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fog on the Rockcastle
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fog at the Big Pool
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sandy bank
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moss-covered boulders, same area
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Narrows
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rapid water
Coal Resource Group, Kentucky Geological
Survey, ca 1985
KGS staff 1995
MS officemates, mid-1970's