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Road cuts exposed in the Pine Mountain thrust at Pound Gap on US 23 above & east of Jenkins, Kentucky.

Page three of this gallery for the Paleozoic sediments of the Pound Gap outcrop extends through the Mississippian Newman Limestone into the transitional Mississippian through Lower Pennsylvanian Stony Gap Formation.

In this and the other pages of this gallery the sources of maps, diagrams and photographic images have been referenced on that particular illustration. The Kentucky Geological Survey is a source of most of the measured sections for Route 23, while many of the maps and diagrams tracking continental paleogeography were created by Dr. Ron Blakey of Northern Arizona University at Flagstaff, Arizona; while the paleogeographic maps and cross sections for the late Paleozoic of the Appalachians were created by Dr. Lynn S. Fichter of the Department of Geology/Environmental Science of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Most of the photographs are by Christopher Kendall using a digital Nicon Coolpix camera, and a number were taken by Dave Barbeau.

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205 Newman Limestone Mississippian 206 Newman Limestone Mississippian 207 Newman Limestone Mississippian 208 Newman Limestone Mississippian 209 Newman Limestone Mississippian
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210 Newman Limestone Mississippian 211 Newman Limestone Mississippian 212 Newman Limestone Mississippian 213 Up Newman Mississippian Pound Gap  214 Up Newman Mississippian Pound Gap 
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274 Stony Gap Mississippian  275 Stony Gap Mississippian  276 Stony Gap Mississippian  277 Stony Gap Mississippian  278 Stony Gap Mississippian 

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