Breathitt Formation Explained

Breathitt Formation
Type:	Sedimentary
Age:	Early to Middle Pennsylvanian
Namedfor:	Breathitt County, Kentucky
Namedby:	Marius R. Campbell (1898)^[1]
Region:	Kentucky (extending into northern Tennessee and southwestern West Virginia)
Country:	United States

The Breathitt Formation is a geologic formation in Kentucky which preserves fossils dating back to the Pennsylvanian period.^[2]

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Kentucky

Notes and References

1. Campbell, M. R., 1898, Description of the Richmond quadrangle (Kentucky): U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Atlas, Folio 46, 4 p.
2. Chesnut, D.R., Jr., 1992, Stratigraphic and structural framework of the Carboniferous rocks of the central Appalachian basin in Kentucky: Kentucky Geological Survey Bulletin, 11th series, no. 3, 42 p.