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- Paint Lick bed
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Cincinnati arch
Summary:
Pg. 10, 19, 212, 215. Paint Lick bed or Upper Eden. Limestones, 40 to 60 feet thick, containing large percentage of siliceous material, with often less than 1 percent of carbonate of lime but with 6 to 10 percent of alumina. Overlies Million bed (Middle and Lower Eden) and underlies Mount Hope (basal bed of Maysville formation). Equivalent to lower part of Garrard sandstone of Richmond folio. Age is Late Ordovician.
Origin of name not stated, but probably named from Paint Lick Creek, Madison and Garrard Cos., KY, as later reports state beds are traceable from Bath Co. to Boyle Co., KY.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1589).
- Usage in publication:
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- Paint Lick beds
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- Overview
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Cincinnati arch
Summary:
McMicken or Paint Lick beds consist of 66 feet of massive argillaceous, more or less siliceous fine-grained limestones, overlying Southgate member and forming top division of Eden group. Underlie Mount Hope beds. [In later reports, unit is said to be traceable from Bath Co. to Boyle Co., KY.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1589).
- Usage in publication:
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- Paint Lick limestone
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- Overview
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Cincinnati arch
Summary:
In central KY, divisions of Eden include Fulton, Million, and Paint Lick. Paint Lick constitutes lower and massive part of Garrard sandstone of Campbell (1898).
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
- Usage in publication:
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- Paint Lick bed
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- Not used
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Cincinnati arch
Summary:
Name Paint Lick is not used as it is a synonym of Garrard siltstone.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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