KGS Home > Geology of Kentucky
Geodes in the Fort Payne, Borden, and Salem-Warsaw Formations -- References
- Barwood, H.L., and Shaffer, N.R., no date, Observations on silicification in geodes from the Mississippian Sanders Group of Indiana and Kentucky[accessed 2008]
- Chowns, T.M., and Elkins, J.E., 1974, The origin of quartz and cauliflower cherts through the silicification of anhydrite nodules: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 44, p. 885-903.
- Greb, S.F., Potter, P.E., Meyer, D.L., and Ausich, W.I., 2008, Mud mounds, paleoslumps, crinoids, and more; the geology of the Fort Payne Formation at Lake Cumberland, south-central Kentucky (field trip for the Kentucky Chapter of the American Institute of Professional Geologists, May 17-18, 2008): 45 p.
- Jones, D.L., and Knauth, P.L., 1979, Oxygen isotopic and petrographic evidence relevant to the origin of the Arkansas Novaculite: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 49, no. 2, p. 581-0598.
- Lowe, D.R., 1975, Regional controls on silica sedimentation in the Ouachita System: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 86, no. 8, p. 1123-1127.
- Lumsden, D.N., 1988, Origin of the Fort Payne Formation (Lower Mississippian), Tennessee: Southeastern Geology, v. 28, no. 3, p. 167-180.
- Lumsden, D.N., 2003, Organodiagenetic dolomite on a deep subtidal shelf, Fort Payne Formation (Mississippian), Tennessee, U.S.A., in Ahr, W.M., Harris, P.M., Morgan, W.A., and Somerville, I.D., eds., Permo-Carboniferous carbonate platforms and reefs: Society for Sedimentary Geology Special Publication 78, p. 323-332.
- Maliva, R.G., 1987, Quartz geodes: Early diagenetic silicified anhydrite nodules related to dolomitization: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 57, p. 1054-1059.
- McKenzie, J.A., Hsu, K.J., and Schneider, J.F., 1980, Movement of subsurface waters under the sabkha, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and its relation to evaporative dolomite genesis: Society of Economic Mineralogists and Paleontologists Special Publication 28, p. 1-30.
- Miliken, K.L., 1979, The silicified anhydrite syndrome; two aspects of silicification history of former evaporate nodules from southern Kentucky and northern Tennessee: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 49, p. 245-256.
- Park, D.E., and Croneis, C., 1969, Origin of Caballos and Arkansas novaculite Formations: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 53, p. 94-111.
- Patterson, R.J., and Kinsman, D.J.J., 1982, Formation of diagenetic dolomite in coastal sabkha along Arabian (Persian) Gulf: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 66, no. 1, p. 28-43.
- Shinn, E.A., 1983, Tidal flat environment, in Scholle, P.A., Bebout, D.G., and Moore, C.H., eds., Carbonate depositional environments: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p. 171-211.
- Thaden, R.E., and Lewis, R.Q., Sr., 1962, Geology of the Jamestown quadrangle, Kentucky: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Quadrangle map, GQ-182, scale 1:24,000.
- Wells, A., 1962, Primary dolomitization in Persian Gulf: Nature, v. 194, no. 4825, p. 274-275.
