INTRODUCTION 



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Kincaid limestone of Weller, 1920 







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Degonia sandstone of Weller, 1920 







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Clore limestone 



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Palestine sandstone 



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Menard limestone 



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Tar Spring sandstone 



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Hardinsburg sandstone 





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Golconda formation 





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Tribune limestone 



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Ohara member 



Rosiclare sandstone 

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In view of the fact that this sequence of lithologic units in western 

 Kentucky was worked out and established in an exceedingly faulted area, 

 any fair-minded man should do no less than concede that it merits the 

 approbation due to a successful piece of pioneer work in detailed stratig- 

 raphy rather than the severe criticism that it has received at the hands 

 of Professor Weller, 3 who in fact required 10 years of work in the less 

 disturbed areas in Illinois before he finally recognized the full sequence 

 of Chester deposits. That I in my 1905 publication was unfortunate in 

 (1) the choice of the name "Tribune" limestone, (2) in applying Engel- 

 mann's term Cypress to a lower sandstone than the one to which it 

 actually pertains, and (3) in locally assigning the Ohara zone 4 to the 



3 Stuart Weller : The geology of Hardin County. Illinois State Geol. Survey, Bull. 

 41, 1920 ; Jour. Geology, vol. 288, nos. 4 and 5, 1920. Geology of the Golconda quad- 

 rangle. Kentucky Geol. Survey, 1922. 



LIII — Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. 33, 1921 



