Roadcuts exposed along I 64 by Olive Hill, Kentucky
Mississippian - Newman Limestone
 Shallow water Carbonate Ooid & Pellet shoals, Tidal Channels and Micrites
Shoaling upward cycles

Stops 3 - 7: Kentucky, Interstate 64 just east of the Morehead exit

Facies: Mixed clastic fans, prodelta, tidal channel carbonates and ooid shoals and orthquartzite barriers.
Ages: Mississippian Pennsylvanian boundary represened by the Borden, Lee and Newman Fomations.

Unless otherwise indicated these images were photographed by Christopher Kendall using a digital Coolpix camera.

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