Breathitt Formation

{{Short description|Geological formation in Kentucky, USA}}

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| name = Breathitt Formation

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| type = Sedimentary

| age = Early to Middle Pennsylvanian

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| namedfor = Breathitt County, Kentucky

| namedby = Marius R. Campbell (1898)Campbell, M. R., 1898, Description of the Richmond quadrangle (Kentucky): U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Atlas, Folio 46, 4 p.

| region = Kentucky (extending into northern Tennessee and southwestern West Virginia)

| country = United States

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

File:Ironstone Breathitt.jpg from the Breathitt Formation along Interstate 64 in Kentucky]]

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