Start Date
15-2-2013 2:50 PM
Description
South-central Kentucky has one of the world’s most intensively studied karst areas, with most work focusing on the Mammoth Cave System and the related aquifers within the Mississippian St. Louis, Ste. Genevieve and Girkin Limestones. Within much of the Mammoth Cave Plateau, these limestones are overlain by the Big Clifty Sandstone and other formations that form a protective caprock within the area’s major ridges. Above the Big Clifty, in turn, is the Mississippian Haney Limestone, typically about 12 m thick, which forms a locally important but much less well studied carbonate aquifer. This research provides the most comprehensive hydrogeologic synthesis to date of the karst hydrogeology of the Haney Limestone within south-central Kentucky, in the present study including Warren, Hart and Edmonson Counties.
Recommended Citation
Arpin, Sarah and Goves, Chris, "Karst Hydrogeology of the Haney Limestone, South Central Kentucky" (2013). Mammoth Cave Research Symposia. 34.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/mc_reserch_symp/10th_Research_Symposium_2013/Research_Posters/34
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Karst Hydrogeology of the Haney Limestone, South Central Kentucky
South-central Kentucky has one of the world’s most intensively studied karst areas, with most work focusing on the Mammoth Cave System and the related aquifers within the Mississippian St. Louis, Ste. Genevieve and Girkin Limestones. Within much of the Mammoth Cave Plateau, these limestones are overlain by the Big Clifty Sandstone and other formations that form a protective caprock within the area’s major ridges. Above the Big Clifty, in turn, is the Mississippian Haney Limestone, typically about 12 m thick, which forms a locally important but much less well studied carbonate aquifer. This research provides the most comprehensive hydrogeologic synthesis to date of the karst hydrogeology of the Haney Limestone within south-central Kentucky, in the present study including Warren, Hart and Edmonson Counties.