Roadcuts exposed along Rt 519 south of Morehead and east of Cave Run Lake, eastern Kentucky in in the western Appalachian Mountains. Mississippian Newman Formation Shallow water shoaling carbonate, and storm deposits overlyng compacting and displaced soils.

Kentucky, Route 519 just south of the Morehead and east of Cave Run Lake

Facies:Intertidal carbonates with storm deposits implaced onto underlying compacting soils.
Ages: Upper Mississippian represented by the Newman Fomation.

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

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