THE WAVERLY FORMATIONS OF EAST-CENTRAL 
KENTUCKY? 
WILLIAM CLIFFORD MORSE, Columbus, Ohio 
AND 
AUGUST F. FOERSTE, Dayton, Ohio 
During a part of the summer just closed, the authors of this paper 
were engaged in working out the sub-Carboniferous stratigraphy of 
East-Central Kentucky for the state survey. The area covered 
extends from the Ohio River at Vanceburg southwestward seventy 
miles to the Kentucky River at Irvine. The results obtained, 
especially in the lower Waverly, are of sufficient interest, it is thought, 
to warrant publication. 
The term Waverly was first applied to a series of rocks in Ohio. 
Under it are now included all of the rocks from the top of the Ohio 
shale to the base of the sub-Carboniferous limestone. In central 
Ohio the series has been divided into six formations, based upon 
their lithological characters. These formation names will be used, 
as far as possible, in the Kentucky field. They are, in descending 
order: 
6. Logan formation. 
Black Hand formation. 
Cuyahoga formation. 
. Sunbury shale. 
. Berea grit. 
1. Redford formation.’ 
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In the southern part of Ohio, however, the conglomerate phase 
of the Black Hand is not developed as it is in the central part. This 
makes the division of the upper Waverly into the Black Hand and 
t Published by permission of Professor Charles J. Norwood, director of the 
Kentucky Geological Survey. Presented at the eighteenth meeting of the Ohio 
Academy of Science, Granville, November 28, 1908. 
2C. S. Prosser, ‘‘The Classification of the Waverly Series of Central Ohio,” 
Jour. Geol., Vol. LX, pp. 214, 215, 1901. That the line of division between the Car- 
boniferous and Devonian systems is still in doubt may be seen by referring to Professor 
Prosser’s paper, ‘Revised Nomenclature of the Ohio Geological Formations,” 
Geol. Surv. Ohio, Bull. 7, pp. 2, 17-21, 1905. 
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