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KY-AIPG Spring 2009

Mailing Address

Kentucky Section AIPG

P.O. Box 24690

Lexington, KY 40524-46902009 Executive Committee

President: Faith Fiene

President-elect: Jim Howard

Vice President: Frank Ettensohn

Secretary: Tim Crumbie

Treasurer: Donnie Lumm

Past-president: Jim Howard

Editor: Richard Smath

Webmaster: Trent Garrison

Get Involved

The following Kentucky Section members have received their 25-

year pins and certificates. We would like to acknowledge them

for their dedication throughout the years to AIPG.

Gary W. Harned

CPG-06374J. Rick Bowersox

CPG-06309

Billy G. Folk

CPG-06367

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UPCOMING EVENTS……………………………………

The Kentucky Geological Survey’s annual seminar is set for Friday, May 15, at the KGS

Well Sample and Core Library on Research Park Drive off of Ky. 1973 (Iron Works Pike)

www.uky.edu/KGS/core_library/Map.pdf

If you are planning to attend, please send an RSVP to mike.lynch@uky.edu.

The theme for this year’s seminar is “Geoscience Serving Kentuckians.” The seminar will

start at 8:50 a.m.

The complete agenda can be found at

www.uky.edu/KGS/announce/annual_2009.htm

ITEMS OF INTEREST…………………………………..

There has been the idea of initiating a continuing education unit program in

Kentucky for geologists. The Board of Registration for Professional Geologists has been

looking into such a program and how to administer it. Different aspects of structuring the

CEU program will be discussed in the Registration Board newsletter that will come out in

May. Please be sure to read it, and if you have any constructive criticism, Tom Ryavec

(tryavec@lexingtoncoal.com) is on the committee and would like to hear from you.

The Executive Committee has been working on a banner that can be taken to

various functions and let people know who we are. The banner will be 90 x 39.5 inches. A

PDF image of the banner can be connected to from the KY-AIPG Web site’s front page.

A position on the Board of Registration for Professional Geologists

will become open as of July 15. It is up to the Kentucky Section of the American

Institute of Professional Geologists and the Kentucky Society for Professional

Geologists to submit three names of professional geologists registered in

Kentucky to the governor. If you are interested in having your name submitted,

please e-mail or send your resume and a completed Commonwealth of Kentucky

Information for Boards and Commissions form ,found at

chfs.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/BF54657D-70AC-4550-BE73-

FBC50CA145E8/0/BoardsandCommissionsApplicationForKCCVS.pdf to me

Richard Smath

Kentucky Geological Survey

MMRB 228

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY 40506-0107

rsmath@uky.edu

2009 KY-AIPG SPRING FIELD TRIP AND AWARDS

BANQUET, April 18, 2009

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After almost a week of dismal weather, Saturday proved to

be an outstanding day for the field trip. And what a field trip it was!!!

As always, we would like to thank the following sponsors for their

generous contributions toward this event: The Allen Company,

Environmental Science Corporation Laboratory Services,

Geoscience Consultants Inc., Regenesis, Republic Waste Services,

and Spade Corporation.

Of course, the field trip was a success due to outstanding

leadership and efforts of the people who put this together: Frank R.

Ettensohn, R. Thomas Lierman, and Charles E. Mason, with

contributions by Sarah Heal, Niall Paterson, Cortland Eble, Robbie

Goodhue, Nina Larsson, Geoff Clayton, Alan Dennis, Eric Anderson,

and D. Brent Wilhelm.

Also many thanks to the KY-AIPG for making it possible to

allow students to attend the field trip at no expense.

The following are some pictures from the field trip. The

guidebook, Upper Devonian–Lower Mississippian Clastic Rocks in

Northeastern Kentucky: Evidence for Acadian Alpine Glaciation and

Models for Source-Rock and Reservoir-Rock Development in the

Eastern United States, will be posted on the KY-AIPG Web site as a

PDF document.

Stop 1A: Eastbound lane of I-64. Silurian-

Devonian unconformity between the Crab

Orchard and Olentangy and the basal Huron

Member of the Ohio Shale.

Stop 1A: Carbonized driftwood fossil

from known Devonian plant in the black

shale.

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Stop 1B: Charlie Mason

discussing the Protosalvinia

(Foerstia) Zone in the middle

part of the Huron Shale

Member of the Ohio Shale.

A

C

1

2

Tom Lierman and students checking out

the granitic dropstone (Robinson

boulder) embedded in the uppermost

Cleveland Shale Member of the Ohio

Shale. A: Upturned mud drapes along

the edge of the boulder.A

Stop 2: Upper part of the black shale sequence and the lower

Borden Formation;.

A1: Grove casts from the lower surfaces of the Farmers

Member. A2: Cone-in-cone structure found in the limestone

bed in the upper part of the Bedford Shale just below the

Sunbury Shale. B: Pyrite nodule found in the Bedford Shale.

C:Trace fossil Zoophycos, found along the upper and lower

surfaces of the coaser-grained beds of the Farmers Member.

B

A1

A2

Stop 2

C

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Stop 4: Group at the Cowbell Member of the Borden

Formation. Cowbell Member and its transition into

the Nada Member, transition from delta front to a

delta platform.

Dan Phelps and Larry Rhodes

checking out the typical trough

cross-strata from the Cowbell

Member.

A

Stop 6

Stop 6: Transition between

the Nancy and Cowbell

Members of the Borden

Formation. A: Ironstone

lenses in the Nancy

Member.

Nancy Member

Cowbell Member

A

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A

B

B

Charlie and Frank with students at Stop 6Stop 6: A: Floyds Knob Bed of the Nada

Member. B: Crinoid columns in the Cowbell

Member.

Awards banquet at Carter Caves State Resort Park,

Louis Caveland Lodge (continued on page 7).

A

B

C

D

E

A

B

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On the KY-AIPG Web site we have posted articles by members and non-

members of geological interest. If you would like to write an article of geological interest to be

posted on the KY-AIPG Web site, please observe the following:

1. These articles do not necessarily reflect the views of the members and this

must be stated at the beginning of the article.

2. We encouraged articles to be edited, but they do not have to be.

3. Any photographs or diagrams must be the personal property of the author or

must have approval from the contributor.

4. If other people are identifiable in the photograph, you should have their

permission for their image to be posted on the Web site.

5. Images or photographs used from another Web site must have the permission

or approval from the owner before we can post the article.

6. Always properly cite the image or photograph.

You can submit your article, in a Word, PDF, or PowerPoint format, to Richard Smath

(rsmath@uky.edu). Any questions, please feel free to contact me.

We are talking about possibly subscribing to a Web site on which members

can submit their photographs and share them. If you have any other suggestions, please

contact me and let me know.

Any errors found in this newsletter shud come as no surprise.

END THOUGHTS………………………………………………

Dr. John Kiefer, Assistant State Geologist at the Kentucky Geological Survey,

will be retiring June 30.

Awards banquet at Carter Caves State Resort Park, Louis Caveland Lodge.

A: Group enjoying themselves at the mixer.

B: Carter Caves Naturalist Sam Plummer presented the evening’s talk on “The Bats of the

Carter Caves Area.”

C: President Faith Fiene presents the past-president plaque to Dr. James Howard.

D: Morehead State student Boyd Gray receives a student award.

E: University of Kentucky student Rachel Hatch receives the other student award.

F: Dr. William M. Andrews Jr. (Drew) receives the Geologist of the Year Award.

G: Dr. Frank R. Ettensohn receives the Lifetime Achievement Award.

A PDF version of the 2009 guide book is posted on the KY-AIPG Web site.

FG

Photo by David

Dockstader

Photo by David

Dockstader