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The highest point is 832 feet 1254 m) above sea level. The oiatller 15 situated cpa;~ :a:c!rria ti.:[\ 5 nrilcs (8 kmE east ofthe Pennsylvanian outcrop. The base of the Caseyville i5 at zhe approxirnc;ee pasltlorr ot the \fdai$e:*;buig Sandstone.Rough River Dam. Hardinsburg Sawdstol-~e isexposed in roadcut at north end of darn.Haney Limestone and ig Clifty Sandstor~e(both Late Mississippia are exposed in tk~valley below the dam. The spillway cut alsoexposes Hardinsburg Sands tone,Entrance, on left, -to ough Rives State Werstinueon I
fill sequence of dark shaie, sandstesne, seat rock, andcoal. Capping the cut, except where removed by recenterosion or landslide, is a thin coal bed and thin-beddedsandstone that is biotucoal blocks presumablcoal and slumped into their present position. Thus, aBIbeds visible in this roadcut, possibluppermost sandstone unit, must havethe paleosiurnp.Figure KV-6. Thin, ripple-bedded, orthoquartmitic sandstonein the Caseyville Formation nearMilepost 95, Western Kentucky Parkway.claystone (bay fill) which grades up into arooted ferruginous sandstone and is cappedwith a thin, impure coal bed.are interpreted as a basal Perarasylvanian dump depositon an irregull ar pre-Pennsylvar-iliara surface. The degreeof relief on this pre-Pennsylvanian surface is problematical.At Nolin Dam, about 2&n be demonstrated; at the keitcExposed at road level at the center of the roadcutis a gray to dark-brown, dense, Fossiliferous limestone(fig. KY-8) in the Upper Mississippian Menard Forma-. Johnson, personal co munieation). Thislimestone is absent toward the west, its position occu-. pied by a rooted claystone and thin coal. Above thelower coal is a reasonably coherent sequence of coarsening-upwardbeds beginning witharea. Some of this apparent hiatus may be due "L onsndepositionrather than to ethick, conglomeratic Caseywiltify an estimate of erosional relief on the pre-Pennsy1-vanian surface in tens of feetPennsylvanian beds presentrepetitive infilling of a shallow interdistributary bay.is interrupted by aseries of irregular sandstone pods. These pods aremoderately weis sorted, m-red Eum- to coa rse-grained,orthoquartzitic, and quartz-pebble bearing.rippled, and the lower surfacer commonlydant sale marks, flow rolls, and fluting.somewhat irregular with casts of logs, and limbs one pods exhibit fracdaljointing. Somebedding is convoluted. lsslated coalthis unit are fragmental and osDvisusBy allocthonous.Eastward, bed continuity is reestablished. Bedlithobgag shifts from chaystotle-sandst017e-coal "t interbeddedmaroon to eentsh-gray claystone and thingreenish-gray, silty, orly bedded sandstone. Dip increasessharply to approximately 30' at the east end,where bedrock is obscured by recent landslides.Eastward from the red beds is an undisturbed bay-Figure MY-7.---L-I- - -Section exposed in roadcut east of Milepost95 illustrating the alternations of orthoquartziticsandstone and dark bay fill shale.Photograph in figure KY-6 is of upper sandstonebed in rhis figure. The Mississippian-Pennsylvanian boundary is less than 100 feet(30 m) below surface.
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Table 1 L-1 . Description of strata
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Harrisburg (No. 5) CoalIApproximate
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Table I L-2. Characteristics and in
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General geologic settingHarvey, Ill
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Table I L-3. Lithology and paleonto
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