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This section contains interesting earth science facts from the Commonwealth. New facts will periodically be added. Just browse the topic of interest and learn something new.

• Kentucky's official State mineral is a rock that burns
• Kentucky's official State rock is a mineral
• Kentucky's official State fossil is a sea shell
• Record earthquakes have rocked Kentucky
• Meteorites in Kentucky
• Pine Mountain has moved
• Big Bone Lick & Thomas Jefferson
• Mammoth Cave: longest cave in the world
• A western Kentucky Quarry: one of the largest producer of crushed stone in the world
• The lowest point at the surface in the state is in the Reed Quarry in Grand Rivers, Kentucky. The elevation at the very bottom of the pit is 100 feet below sea level.
• Fossils at the W.T. Young Library at the University of Kentucky (PDF file)
• I struck gold(?) at the W.T. Young Library (PDF format)

This section contains Kentucky Fact Sheets concerning features of geologic interest and natural resources in Adobe Acrobat PDF format .

• Coal (PDF)
• Fossils (PDF)
• Industrial and Metallic Minerals (PDF)
• Meteorites (PDF)
• Coalbed Methane (PDF)
• Oil and Natural Gas (PDF)
• Water (PDF)
• Trilobites (PDF)
• Limestone (PDF)
• Earthquakes (PDF)