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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.
The Kentucky Geological Survey is a scientific research organization that studies the geology and mineral resources of Kentucky.
Willard Rouse Jillson (May 28, 1890 – October 4, 1975) was a Kentucky historian, academic, and geologist who authored numerous books on Kentucky politicians and geology matters pertaining to the State. Jillson taught geology in Lexington at the University of Kentucky in 1918 and later at Transylvania University in 1947.
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.
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 ...
In 1892, Miller joined the faculty at Kentucky State College—now known as the University of Kentucky—as a professor of geology and zoology. [4] That year, he also coached the football team in its inaugural season at the urging of the students, which came despite his limited knowledge of the sport. [5]
He spearheaded the Sixth Kentucky Geological Survey, published in 1921, which mapped a great deal of the state’s geological resources (minerals, oil, gas, coal, etc.).
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 ...