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Weller studied geology and paleontology at Cornell University with bachelor's degree in 1894 and at Yale University with Ph.D. in 1901. Beginning in 1895 he worked at the University of Chicago , where in 1897–1900 he was a research associate, and became in 1900 Instructor, in 1902 Assistant Professor, in 1908 Associate Professor and in 1915 ...
However, the Kentucky Geological Survey estimated a cumulative total of 200,000 wells in 1992, with 23,000 oil wells and 11,000 gas wells producing in 1989. The Eastern Coal Field and Western Coal Field have been the mine sites of production, with little exploration in the Jackson Purchase and Bluegrass regions. [3]
The Camp Nelson Limestone is a geologic formation in Kentucky. It dates back to the Ordovician period. It is mainly composed of limestone and shale. Member of Highbridge Group Earth sciences portal; United States portal; Paleontology portal
The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a public land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, [9] the university is one of the state's two land-grant universities (the other being Kentucky State University). It is the ...
The Middlesboro crater (or astrobleme) is a meteorite crater in Kentucky, United States. [2] It is named after the city of Middlesboro, Kentucky, which today occupies much of the crater. The crater is approximately 3 miles (about 5 km) wide and its age is estimated to be less than 300 million years . The impactor is estimated to have been about ...
The man who was Kentucky’s first state parks commissioner can trace his ancestry back to the Reverend John Rogers, the first martyr of Queen Mary I’s reign in England. ‘Father of State Parks.’
P.P. Karan led the department in the creation of the graduate program in 1968. Following a national search, Karan was named as chair in 1967. On August 12, 1967, the old Social Sciences Building which housed the department (on the site of the present Fine Arts Library) was gutted by fire, damaging or destroying most of the department's cartographic and meteorological equipment, wall maps, and ...
Basic to-do list: Expand the Eastern Mountain Coal Fields article to at least B-class.; Continue tagging talk pages within our jurisdiction with: {{WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|KY=yes|KY-importance=|Eastern Mountain Coal Fields=yes}}