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AN AMERICAN GEOLOGICAL RAILWAY GUIDE. (KY.) 



Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Rail- 

 road Continued. 



Ms. I 



Shelbyville Division. 



Louisville, Nashville fc Great Southern and 

 North <& South Alabama Railroad. 



Louisville and Memphis Division. 



9 c. Corniferous. 



10 c. Black shale. 



Louisville. 



6 Strawberry. 



9 Old Deposit. 

 14 Brooks. 

 18 Shepherdsville 6 5 c. Niagara. 

 22 Bardstown Jun. 

 25 Belmont. 



30 Lebanon June. 

 34 Colesburg. 7 

 42 Elizabethtown. 



50 Glendale. 



59 Upton. 



66 Bacon Creek. 



73 Munfordville. 



82 Horse Cave. 



85 Cave City. 



91 Glasgow June. 8 



96 Rocky Hill. 

 100 Smith's Grove. 

 109 Bristow. 

 114 Bowling Green. 

 118 Memphis June. 

 123 Rockfield. 

 132 Auburn. 

 136 McLeod. 

 143 Russellville. 

 148 Cave Spring. 

 157Allensville. 

 164Guthrie. 



I (Continued 



13 a. Lower Sub-Carb. 



" & 9 c. Cornif. 

 j 10 c. Black shale and 

 ( 13 a. L.Sub-Carbonif. 

 13 a. Lower Sub-Carb. 

 13 b. St. Louis group 

 & Upper Sub-Carbon. 



in Tennessee). 



Louisville and Montgomery Division. 



Louisville. 

 118 Memphis June. 

 125 Woodburn. 

 134 Franklin. 9 

 144 Richland. 



(As before). 



13 b. Upper Sub-Carb. 



The Chester group is also represented in this portion of the hill. Muldraugh's Hill represents the 

 retreating escapement of the rocks extending over Central Kentucky. 



8. Glasgow Junction. Cavernous limestone of the St. Louis group. The nearest station to the 

 Mammoth Cave. This celebrated cavern and all the other Kentucky caves are in the 13 b. bt. Louis 

 division of the Sub-Carboniferous limestone. The knobs seen to the northward are composed of 

 St. Louis limestone, capped with the sandstone of the Chester group, known in Kentucky Geo- 

 logical Reports as the "Big Clifty Sandstone," so named from Big Clifty Creek (Paducah & 

 Elizabethtown Railroad), where it has its greatest development. Glasgow, near the division 

 between the Lower St. Louis and Keokuk groups. Near Glasgow are profitable oil wells. 



9. Franklin, near the division between the Lower St. Louis and the Keokuk limestone. 



10. From 55 Chicago to 104 Stanford all the formations, from the top of the 4 c. Cincinnati, 9. 

 Corniferous, 10 c. Genesee, and 13. Keokuk, are represented. The Niagara is wanting. The rail- 

 road runs on the Cincinnati and Black shales, and the Keokuk knobs strike it on the soulh. Knobs 

 to right of road (going from Louisville), outliers from Muldraugh's Hill. \See Note 7 (Colesburg) 

 on Louisville and Memphis division. Also see Note 8. 



