Pound Gap Devonian through Pennsylvanian, Pine Mountain Thrust on US 23
Above & South of Jenkins, Kentucky / 099 Pound Gap
Christopher Kendall
11/24/2004

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099-Pound_Gap

099 Pound Gap where most of this photograph is of the middle and lower portions of the Mississippian Grainger Formation; here composed of alternating relatively continuous to occasionally shallowly channeled beds of sand with uniform sharp bedding planes and shale; both lithologies vary in thickness and the sands often exhibit Bouma sequences suggesting deposition from turbidite currents that were active over a mid to outer fan setting. The lower portion of the formation is shale rich and probably from a deeper water setting and a more distal portion of the fan.