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Geologic Unit: Burnside
Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Burnside Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Calcarenite
    • Calcilutite
    • Calcisiltite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Cincinnati arch
Publication:

Dever, G.R., Jr., and Moody, J.R., 2002, Bronston and Burnside Members; subdivision of the St. Louis Limestone in south-central Kentucky: Kentucky Geological Survey Report of Investigations, 12th series, no. 9, 18 p. [Available online from the Kentucky Geological Survey: http://kgsweb.uky.edu/olops/pub/kgs/ri9_12.pdf]


Summary:

Pg. 4-5, 6 (figs. 5, 6), App. A. Burnside Member of St. Louis Limestone (south-central KY); Burnside Member of Slade Formation (east-central KY). Lower part, olive-gray, very fine- to very coarse-grained, bioclastic calcarenite, locally with interbeds and lenses of calcilutite; upper part, olive-gray and brownish-gray to yellowish-brown calcilutite and calcisiltite with interbeds and lenses of bioclastic calcarenite. Thickness up to 30 feet, commonly 15 to 25 feet. At type, underlies St. Genevieve Limestone Member of Monteagle Limestone and overlies Bronston Member of St. Louis. Fossils. Age is Mississippian. [F.R. Ettensohn, 2009 (Miss. Appal. basin, Kentucky Spec. Pub. 10, ser. XII, p. 24, fig. 3.2) places the St. Louis in Middle Mississippian (Visean; Meramecian).]
Type section: along and near entrance road to General Burnside Island State Park, Pulaski Co., KY. Named from town of Burnside in southern Pulaski Co.

Source: Publication.


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