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Published: 01 January 1991
DOI: 10.1130/SPE258-p29
... The Old Kentucky River system was a major contributor to the Teays River, draining southwestern Ohio and much of eastern Kentucky. The trunk river flowed northward from southeastern Kentucky throughout Frankfort and Carrollton, and then past Cincinnati and Dayton, joining the Teays River near...
Journal Article
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 01 November 1973
GSA Bulletin (1973) 84 (11): 3677–3688.
...JAMES T. TELLER Abstract The preglacial rivers of southwestern Ohio, northern Kentucky, and southeastern Indiana flowed toward the north and joined with the west-flowing trunk river, the Teays, in central Ohio. The main tributary valleys to the Teays River in this region—containing the Old Kentucky...
Published: 10 December 2018
DOI: 10.1130/2018.0051(07)
EISBN: 9780813756516
... Episode in the Middle Pleistocene, the Sangamon interglacial, and the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin Episode. The Old Kentucky River was tributary to the Teays, depositing sands at ca. 1.5 Ma, confirmed by multiple 10 Be- 26 Al cosmogenic radionuclide burial ages. Glacial till uncoformably overlies Old...
Series: DNAG, Centennial Field Guides
Published: 01 January 1986
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-5406-2.25
EISBN: 9780813754123
... Abstract The Middle Ordovician High Bridge Group and Kentucky River fault system are exposed along the new part of U.S. 27 just north and south of the Kentucky River near the village of Camp Nelson, Kentucky, in the southwestern quarter of the southwestern section of the Little Hickman 7...
Journal Article
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 September 1980
AAPG Bulletin (1980) 64 (9): 1462–1475.
... an interval of 4,045 to 4,498 ft in Middle Mississippian rocks; it is an extension of what is called Ft. Payne on the Illinois side of the Wabash River. In 1980, drilling is expected to concentrate on deeper strata in old fields, some rank wildcat drilling, and redrilling of poor reservoirs that may have...
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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 June 1944
AAPG Bulletin (1944) 28 (6): 722–742.
... operations and approximately 25 dry wells were drilled to shallow depths in an effort to extend old or find new producing Devonian sands. Shallow oil and Oriskany gas production figures are given. The procedure of drilling exploratory wells, both shallow and deep, on a cooperative partnership basis...
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Series: GSA Memoirs
Published: 01 January 1946
DOI: 10.1130/MEM13-p1
... The Pennsylvanian strata of western Virginia, southeastern Kentucky, Tennessee, and northwestern Georgia consist of shales, sandstones, siltstones, numerous coals, several conglomerates, some thin bands of ironstone, and a few limestones. There is a maximum thickness of nearly 6000 feet near...
Journal Article
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 October 1972
AAPG Bulletin (1972) 56 (10): 2107.
... Hur fields in Lee County, Virginia. The Trenton-Black River limestone section has produced gas in numerous old fields in west-central New York. Gas shows have been reported from Middle Ordovician carbonates in West Virginia. Additional hydrocarbon reserves should be found in the Middle Ordovician...
Journal Article
Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 01 July 2001
GSA Bulletin (2001) 113 (7): 825–836.
... probably correlates with the formation of the Ohio River along an ice-sheet margin. Several lines of evidence support formation of the Ohio River at this time. Granger and Smith (2000) used 26 Al/ 10 Be methods to date proglacial sediments that were deposited when the preglacial old Kentucky River...
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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 September 1924
AAPG Bulletin (1924) 8 (5): 621–631.
... production of the Kentucky-Tennessee region comes from sands in strata of Silurian, Devonian, or Carboniferous age. Of these, the most important from a production standpoint is the “Corniferous” formation of Devonian age, which is a limestone or dolomite. The location of the old shore line of the Corniferous...
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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 June 1961
AAPG Bulletin (1961) 45 (6): 761–766.
... decline in production; no outstanding new wildcat discoveries were made. Most of the exploratory successes were new-pay discoveries in old fields, and a few new-field extensions. Most of the counties in central Kentucky showed increases over last year’s oil production, but the total increase did...
Journal Article
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 September 1920
AAPG Bulletin (1920) 4 (3): 303–312.
... Coal fields and the area lying between them in which Mississippian and Devonian sediments are found at the surface. To this may be added a small area along Cumberland river in southern Kentucky near the Tennessee line where Ordovician sediments are exposed. Conditions in this areas were favorable...
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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 June 1960
AAPG Bulletin (1960) 44 (6): 963–968.
... producers in the bend of the Barren River in 12-E-41 received some publicity. Although much of the drilling was scattered through the county, most of the activity occurred south and southwest of Glasgow, and consisted of some wildcatting, but mostly extensions to old fields. No outstanding discoveries were...
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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 November 1941
AAPG Bulletin (1941) 25 (11): 2046–2056.
... the valleys of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, south from the Ohio River to the Tennessee State line. The region so defined is roughly the Kentucky portion of the belt of transition from the sediments of the Mississippi Embayment, west of the Tennessee River, to the predominant Paleozoic rocks, east...
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Published: 01 October 1988
Earth Sciences History (1988) 7 (2): 134–139.
...Russell G. SHEPHERD ABSTRACT The first commercial oil well in North America was drilled with a spring pole rig in 1818 by Marcus Huling on the South Fork of the Cumberland River in McCreary County, Kentucky. The well was 200 feet deep and flowed at the surface. The discovery was reported...
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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 August 1974
AAPG Bulletin (1974) 58 (8): 1565–1574.
...Jacob Van Den Berg; G. L. Carpenter; Edmund Nosow; Anthony T. Statler Abstract Total oil production in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee in 1973 was 45 million bbl, down 11.9% from 1972. Tennessee had a very slight increase; all the other states had decreases. Gas production in Kentucky...
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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 June 1949
AAPG Bulletin (1949) 33 (6): 853–862.
... of the 12 new fields, 11 of 17 new pools, 8 of 9 new producing beds in old fields, and all of the 4 extensions were discovered in western Kentucky. These discoveries ranged stratigraphically from oil in Pennsylvanian sandstones to a gas discovery in the Devonian. Most of the successful discoveries were made...
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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 June 1965
AAPG Bulletin (1965) 49 (6): 686–699.
...G. L. Carpenter; H. C. Milhous; Edmund Nosow; D. H. Swann; Jacob Van Den Berg ABSTRACT Both exploratory activity and oil production declined in the east-central States during 1964. Oil production totaled 101.5 million bbls. for the four States of Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee, down 4.1...
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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 June 1956
AAPG Bulletin (1956) 40 (6): 1108–1117.
.... , and Campbell , Lois J. , 1955 , “ Geological Itinerary Kentucky Highways ,” Geol. Soc. America Guides to Southeastern Geology . 95 pp. Mcfarlan , Arthur C. , and others, 1955 , “ Some Old Chester Problems-Correlations of Lower and Middle Chester Formations of Western Kentucky ,” Kentucky Geol...
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Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Published: 01 June 1967
AAPG Bulletin (1967) 51 (6): 1027–1038.
... reserves appear to have been discovered. The most significant results were in Camp Breckinridge in western Kentucky, where new fields were discovered and old fields were extended into areas recently opened for drilling. Indiana showed an increase from 285 to 331 exploratory wells, of which 41 (12.4%) were...
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