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).

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).

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

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

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#).]

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