Flint Ridge

Figure 5. Map of Columbian Avenue, Flint Ridge section of Mammoth Cave showing location of sediment pits. Underlined numbers are elevations in meters above pool stage of Green River. Base map adapted from Brucker and Bums (1964).

Figure 6. Series of stratigraphic columns along Columbian Avenue, Flint Ridge section of Mammoth Cave Kentucky showing lithologic characteristics of channel facies. Columns are keyed to core locations shown in figure 7. Note the total column thickness original columns were drawn to two different scales. Original data from Carwile and Hawkinson (1968).

Bretz, J H., 1942. Vadose and phreatic features of limestone caverns, J. Geol. 50 675-811 Brucker, R.W. and Bums, D.P., 1964, The Flint Ridge Cave System, Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, Cave Research Foundation, Washington, DC, Folio, 3pp text plus 31 maps. 

Carwile, R.H. and Hawkinson, E.F., 1968, Baselevel sedimentation, Flint Ridge, Kentucky, B.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 116 pp. 

Harmon, R.S., Schwarcz, H.P. and Ford, D.C., 1978c, Stable isotope geochemistry of speleothems and cave waters from the Flint Ridge-Mammoth Cave System, Kentucky Implications for terrestrial climate change during the period 230,000 to 100,000 years B.P., J. Geol. 86 373-384. 

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