Abstract
In order to synthesize some of the newer data on the lower Mississippian Kinderhook and Osage Series in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, lithofacies and isopach maps were prepared from approximately two hundred surface and subsurface sections compiled from the literature. Lobes of coarser terrigenous sediment dominate the interval mapped. These deltas, first noted by Pepper et al. (1954, pl. 13) for Kinderhook time, are shown by lithofacies analysis to have lasted through Osage time as well. The directions of transport within the six sandy lobes shown on the lithofacies map were: westward in Pennsylvania, northwestward in Virginia and West Virginia, southward in Ohio, and westward in Indiana. The whole of the central and eastern United States was covered during Lower Mississippian time by terrigenous sediment which was derived from sources north and east of the Appalachian basin and also from low islands within the area of the present Nashville dome and Cincinnati arch.
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