[Rockhounds] "Geology of Kentucky" book now on-line

[Alan Goldstein]

http://www.uky.edu/OtherOrgs/KPS/goky/indexgoky.htm
 
Don Chesnut (KGS Emeritus and KPS webmaster) has kindly posted his scanning of A. C. McFarland's 1943 classic "The Geology of Kentucky" on the Kentucky Paleontological Society website in cooperation with the Kentucky Geological Survey and the University of Kentucky. Don went to great effort to scan this book and had the assistance of Steve Cordiviola, Richard Smath, and Garland Dever.  A physical copy of this book is rather scarce and commands high $ to buy a copy from a rare book dealer; usually forcing one to go to the UK Library system.  Although this text was originally published in 1943, it remains an important contribution to the geology of Kentucky. Of course, some of the data and names have changed over the decades, but the text is still a valuable source of information. The project to make this important text available electronically began in 1999 and ended in January 2008. Scanning the text was relatively fast, but optical character recognition (OCR) was painfully slow and had to await advances in software. We hope you find this text useful. I'm sure Don will be making various improvements to this text.  He tells me that other useful and scarce geology and paleontology books are being similarly scanned for future electronic availability. Dan Phelps, KPS

It covers everything - general geology, fossils, minerals... 
Alan G.

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