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Tectonic Dolomites: Kentucky River Fault Zone Field Trip 14-Jun-2000

Notes:

1. Click on the thumbnail of each image to view it. Use the back button on the browser to return to this page.
2. In the "Processed" column, a value of yes indicates the image brightness, contrast, and sharpness have been adjusted with Adobe Photoshop LE 5.0. I haven't had time to process all the images.
3. Waypoint location maps are being prepared. If there is a link (in blue), something is available.
4. "Black and Haney, 1975" is Black, D.F.B., and Haney, D.C., 1975, Selected Structural features and associated dolostone occurrences in the vicinity of the Kentucky River Fault System, Annual Field Conference of the Geological Society of Kentucky: Kentucky Geological Survey, Lexington, 27 pages (with plates). The Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view the document.
5. The card used for scale in many pictures is graduated in centimeters and is about 9cm x 5.5cm
6. Images have not been optimized for the web and are in their original 1025x768 (150dpi) 24-bit color format. Right now, they are best viewed (that is without scrolling) on 21-inch monitors.
7. To do:
   • We need an abstract to serve as the opening page for posting on the web

Photo Credits: All photos by Brandon C. Nuttall, Kentucky Geological Survey

Image	Processed	Waypoint	Description
kyr_0001.jpg	Yes	2	T-dolostone body, Hwy 627 roadcut (looking NW)
kyr_0002.jpg	No	2	T-dolostone body, Hwy 627 roadcut (looking NW)
kyr_0003.jpg	No	2	Structure across road from main body (looking SE)
kyr_0004.jpg	No	2	Structure across road from main body (looking SE)
kyr_0005.jpg	No	2	Dolomite filled vugs in fracture, SE side of road cut
kyr_0006.jpg	No	2	Dolomite filled vugs in fracture, SE side of road cut
kyr_0007.jpg	No	2	Edge of T-dolostone body
kyr_0008.jpg	No	2	Edge of T-dolostone body
kyr_0010.jpg	No	2	Saddle dolomite in vugs in T-dolostone body
kyr_0011.jpg	No	2	T-dolostone body, Hwy 627 roadcut (looking NW)
kyr_0012.jpg	No	2	Detail of main mass of T-dolostone body
kyr_0013.jpg	No	2	Detail of main mass of T-dolostone body
kyr_0015.jpg	Yes	2	Saddle dolomite in vugs in T-dolostone body.
kyr_0019.jpg	No	2	View of T-dolostone body from top of opposite roadcut.
kyr_0020.jpg	Yes	2	View of T-dolostone body from top of opposite roadcut.
kyr_0021.jpg	Yes	3	Brachiosponge collected by J Allen (landowner) from creek next to his house.
kyr_0022.jpg	Yes	3	Brachiosponge collected by J Allen (landowner) from creek next to his house.
kyr_0025.jpg	Yes	4	Oil-filled vugs from Ordovician Calloway Creek
kyr_0026.jpg	No	4	Oil-filled vugs from Ordovician Calloway Creek
kyr_0030.jpg	Yes	5	Dipping beds in creek, local expression of the Kentucky River Fault Zone
kyr_0031.jpg	No	9	Oregon (left) upthrown against Lexington-type (right) lithologies in the KYRFZ at intersection of Hwys 627 and 1924
kyr_0032.jpg	No	9	Mineralized fractures in Oregon (see differential erosion especially at knee level)
kyr_0035.jpg	No	9	Mineralized fractures in Ordovician Oregon
kyr_0036.jpg	No	9	Rubble zone on downthrown side of Kentucky River Fault Zone (KYRFZ)
kyr_0039.jpg	No	9	KYRFZ at intersection of Hwys 627 and 1924
kyr_0040.jpg	No	9	KYRFZ at intersection of Hwys 627 and 1924
kyr_0041.jpg	No	9	Growth faulting in Lexington, displacement evident in Tanglewood Ls (see Black and Haney, 1975, fig. 4, p. 8)
kyr_0042.jpg	No	9	Growth faulting in Lexington, displacement evident in Tanglewood Ls (see Black and Haney, 1975, fig. 4, p. 8)
kyr_0043.jpg	No	10	Bentonites in highwall of abandoned quarry on road to Halls on the River (restaurant)
kyr_0044.jpg	Yes	10	Bentonites in highwall of abandoned quarry on road to Halls on the River (restaurant)