USGS KY-1

"Weiss and others (1965) postulated that clastic mud accumulated in depressed areas on a sea floor of low, broad relief, while limestones were deposited on the tops and flanks of topographically higher areas, with skeletal debris occasionally being swept into adjacent lows. They estimated an average depth of accumulation of 25 m. \r\nAnstey and Fowler (1969) ... estimated, on the basis of bryozoan growth forms, that the water depth averaged more than 20 m. They claimed that the Kope limestones formed by the growth of benthonic communities dominated by bryozoans, on slightly elevated areas of the sea floor. They also outlined an upward shallowing of water depth, on the basis of an upward increase in limestone content and fauna abundance, an upward decrease in the wave length of magaripples, and the presence of oncolites and mud cracks in teh overlying Dillsboro Formation."

Carrollton, Ky. quadrangle; "Roadcut on western side of Interstate 71, at Carrollton, Ky., exit."