| || | UK DoGS | || | WebDoGS | || | RRGGFTG | || | Start the guide (draft version) ==> | || |
Stop
1: Silurian dolomites on Mountain Parkway, 10 miles west of Clay City,
KY.
Stop 2. Devonian shales at Clay City, exit 16 on Mountain Parkway.
Stop 3. Junior Williamson Rest Stop. Ask the staff for a copy
of the trail map, free.
Stop
4. Mississippian Borden Formation along Route 15, one mile east
of Stop 3.
Stop 5. Paleokarst in Mississippian Slade Fm limestones beneath Pennsylvanian
Lee/Breathitt sandstones along the Mountain Parkway.
Stop 6. Pennsylvanian Lee Formation at Rock House, on Rock Bridge trail.
Stop 7. Pennsylvanian Lee Formation at Rock Bridge.
Stop
8. Pennsylvanian Lee Formation sandstones at Sky Bridge overlooking the
Red River Gorge.
Stop 9. Moonshiner's Arch - Mississippian limestones with chert and
fossils deep in the Red River Gorge.
Stop 10. Mary Jane Cave - Mississippian limestones in a popular (and
narrow) cave near Moonshiner's Arch.
Stop 11. Bell Falls - Pennsylvanian conglomerates in a paleovalley
fill cutting through the Mississippian Limestones down to Borden Formation.
Stop 12. Pinch 'em Tight Trail
Guide - a closer look at the ridgetop sandstones of the Pennsylvanian Lee Formation.
Stops 13, 14, 15...ideas? you can do this too. we want more.
write to Paul with ideas for more pages.
(you get the idea. links are starting to happen and content is
actually coming soon)
| Red
River Gorge Geology Field Trip Guide
(URL: http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geology/webdogs/rrggftg ) This RRGGFTG contribution authored by: Paul Howell (phowell@uky.edu) and modified on: April 19, 2004 GLY 350 Historical Geology, Class Project Website Spring 2004 Department of Geological Sciences, University of Kentucky |
||
|
Copyright UKDoGS 2004; except where otherwise noted, content on the RRGGFTG site is licensed under a Creative Commons License. | |
