Information Circular--KGS
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Abstract
The High Bridge Group (Middle Ordovician) of northeastern Kentucky is a major source of limestone and dolomite for construction, agricultural, and industrial stone. These industries require carbonate rocks of high chemical purity. Chemical analyses of foot-by-foot samples from a Mason County core show that three zones of high-calcium and several thick zones of high-carbonate and low-silica stone are present in the High Bridge at a mineable depth. Mason County is located in northeastern Kentucky, on the Ohio River, and offers river access to transportation to the metropolitan Covington-Cincinnati market and the northern portion of the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field for mine-related markets.
Publication Date
1995
Series
Series XI
Issue Number
Information Circular 53
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/kgs.ic53.11
Repository Citation
Anderson, Warren H. and Barron, Lance S., "High-Carbonate, Low-Silica, High-Calcium Stone in the High Bridge Group (Upper Ordovician), Mason County, North-Central Kentucky" (1995). Information Circular--KGS. 57.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/kgs_ic/57
