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The Lexington Limestone is a prominent geologic formation that constitutes a large part of the late Ordovician bedrock of the inner Bluegrass region in Kentucky. Named after the city of Lexington , the geologic formation has heavily influenced both the surface topography and economy of the region.
Maysville is a home rule-class city [5] in Mason County, Kentucky, United States, and is the county seat of Mason County. [6] The population was 8,873 as of the 2020 census . [ 3 ] Maysville is on the Ohio River , 66 miles (106 km) northeast of Lexington .
The Mega Cavern is a 4,000,000 square foot (370,000 m 2) [2] structure located in Louisville, Kentucky. About 75–100 feet (23–30 m) underground, [3] [4] [5] the mine stretches under parts of the Watterson Expressway and the Louisville Zoo. [6] Due to its support structures, it is classified as a building and is the largest building in ...
Map of the United States with Kentucky highlighted. Kentucky, a state in the United States, has 418 active cities. [1] The two most populous cities, Louisville and Lexington, are designated "first class" cities. A first class city would normally have a mayor-alderman government, but that does not apply to the merged governments in Louisville ...
Before European-American settlement, various cultures of Indigenous peoples of the Americas lived in the region. The pre-colonization state of the Bluegrass is poorly known, but it is thought to have been a type of savannah known as oak savanna, with open grassland containing clover, giant river cane (a type of bamboo), and scattered enormous trees, primarily bur oak, blue ash, Shumard's oak ...
Lexington is a consolidated city coterminous with and the county seat of Fayette County, Kentucky, United States.As of the 2020 census the city's population was 322,570, making it the second-most populous city in Kentucky (after Louisville), the 14th-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 59th-most populous city in the United States.
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Kentucky, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation ... Haney Limestone: Carboniferous ...
The Camp Nelson Limestone along the Kentucky River gorge between Frankfort and Boonesboro dates to the Middle Ordovician and is the oldest rock exposed at the surface in the state. Additional mudstone and shale formation from the Late Ordovician indicates a shift to a shallower sea, which supported extensive marine life.