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  2. Geology of Kentucky - Wikipedia

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    The geology of Kentucky formed beginning more than one billion years ago, in the Proterozoic eon of the Precambrian. The oldest igneous and metamorphic crystalline basement rock is part of the Grenville Province, a small continent that collided with the early North American continent.

  3. Kentucky Geological Survey - Wikipedia

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    The Kentucky Geological Survey (KGS) is a department of the University of Kentucky that provides information on the geology of Kentucky, but has variously over the course of its history been a state level office, or a sub-division of a state combined geology and forestry department, at times its official State Geologist being prohibited by law from being associated with the University of Kentucky.

  4. Lexington Limestone - Wikipedia

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    The Lexington Limestone is a prominent geologic formation that constitutes a large part of the late Ordovician bedrock of the inner Bluegrass region in Kentucky.Named after the city of Lexington, the geologic formation has heavily influenced both the surface topography and economy of the region.

  5. Pennyroyal Plateau - Wikipedia

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    It is also called the "Mississippian Plateau," for the Mississippian geologic age in which it was formed. [2] The Pennyroyal is bordered by the Pottsville Escarpment in the east. The Pottsville Escarpment is the transition zone from the central part of Kentucky to the higher and geologically younger Cumberland Plateau in

  6. Paleontology in Kentucky - Wikipedia

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    Like the Cretaceous, the geologic record of Kentucky contains deposits left on both land and sea during the Tertiary. [4] Also like the Cretaceous, Kentucky preserves plant fossils from this age. [4] Kentucky's Tertiary flora left behind fossil fruits, cones, flower petals and stems in places like Ballard, Graves, and Fulton Counties.

  7. Cincinnati Arch - Wikipedia

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    Fossils from the Ordovician are commonplace in the geologic formations which make up the Cincinnati Arch and are commonly studied along man made roadcuts. The Nashville Dome of Tennessee and the Jessamine Dome or Lexington Dome [ 1 ] of central Kentucky make up the central portion of the arch.

  8. ‘Father of State Parks.’ Meet the New York man who led KY’s ...

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    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.’

  9. Category:Geology of Kentucky - Wikipedia

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    View history; General What links here; Related changes; Upload file; ... Pages in category "Geology of Kentucky" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of ...