U.S. Geological Survey Home AASG Logo USGS HOME CONTACT USGS SEARCH USGS
National Geologic Map Database
Geologic Unit: Yellow Creek
Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Yellow Creek sandstone* member
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Ashley, G.H., and Glenn, L.C., 1906, Cumberland Gap coal field, Kentucky: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 49, 239 p. [Available online from the USGS PubsWarehouse: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/pp/pp49]


Summary:

Pg. 31, 33, 38, 119. Yellow Creek sandstone member of Hance formation. Massive cliff-making sandstone, 25 to 60 feet thick, in Hance formation, lying 100 feet above base of Hance. Age is Pennsylvanian.
[Named from Yellow Creek, Bell Co., southeastern KY. Extends into northeastern TN.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 2385).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Yellow Creek Sandstone Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Englund, K.J., 1964, Stratigraphy of the Lee Formation in the Cumberland Mountains of southeastern Kentucky, IN Geological Survey Research 1964: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 501-B, p. B30-B38.


Summary:

Mapped as Yellow Creek Sandstone Member of Hance Formation. "Sandstone, light-gray, very fine to fine-grained, micaceous, cliff-forming." Thickness is 15-40 ft. Underlain, above the Naese Sandstone Member of the Lee Formation, by about 40 ft of unnamed shale of the Hance Formation. Overlain by Clear Fork coal bed and higher parts of the Hance.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Yellow Creek Sandstone Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

McDowell, R.C., Grabowski, G.J., Jr., and Moore, S.L., 1981, Geologic map of Kentucky: U.S. Geological Survey [State Geologic Map], 4 sheets, scale 1:250,000


Summary:

Yellow Creek Sandstone Member of Hance Formation reassigned as member of Breathitt Formation in Kentucky.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Yellow Creek Sandstone Member
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Ruppert, L.F., Trippi, M.H., and Slucher, E.R., 2010, Correlation chart of Pennsylvanian rocks in Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, and Pennsylvania showing approximate position of coal beds, coal zones, and key stratigraphic units: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report, SIR-2010-5152.


Summary:

Corr. chart. Yellow Creek Sandstone Member of Grundy Formation of Breathitt Group. Sandstone. Recognized in southeastern Kentucky [Upper Cumberland River district] in lower part of Grundy Formation. Separated from overlying Dave Branch shale member (informal) by the Clear Fork (Rex) coal bed and underlying Naese Sandstone Member of Bee Rock Sandstone by unnamed sandstone, siltstone, shale, and/or mudstone, and the Naese coal bed. Age is Early Pennsylvanian (Westphalian; Morrowan). [Peppers (1996, GSA Memoir 188, p. 9, pl.) placed the Gilbert coal of West Virginia (approx. = middle part of Yellow Creek) in upper part of Westphalian A, RADIIZONATES ALIGERENS (RA) miospore assemblage zone of western Europe.]
[See also Chesnut, 1997 (revised Oct. 12, 1999), Stratigraphy of the coal-bearing strata of the Eastern Kentucky coal field, available online through the Kentucky Geol. Survey (http://www.uky.edu/KGS/coal/coalcorrel.htm) and geologic descriptions of stratigraphic units in the Kentucky Geological Survey database (http://kgs.uky.edu/kgsmap/KGSLitho/lithoSearch.asp#).]

Source: Publication.


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).