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Volume: 25 (1941)

Issue: 11. (November)

First Page: 2046

Last Page: 2056

Title: Post-Appalachian Faulting In Western Kentucky

Author(s): Roger Rhoades (2), Alvin J. Mistler (3)

Abstract:

The intricate faulting in the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian formations of western Kentucky has been usually correlated with the Appalachian orogeny. Post-Paleozoic sediments are all unconsolidated and evidence of post-Appalachian faulting is consequently obscure; references to the possibility of later faulting have heretofore been largely unsupported by specific evidence.

Detailed examination of the area establishes the occurrence of later faulting. Just as the epeirogenic disturbances in this region at the end of the Paleozoic era were associated with important faulting, the similar but less intense epeirogenic movements during the Cretaceous and Eocene periods led to renewed faulting--probably, however, on a smaller scale.

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