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  • Limestone, Cave Hill Shale, and Negli Creek Limestone. A formation in Illinois containing 4 members that are linked to other formations in the Upper Pope...
    8 KB (653 words) - 13:04, 8 July 2024
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    named as the "Marcellus shales" by J. Hall in 1839. The Marcellus consists predominantly of black shale and a few limestone beds and concentrations of...
    102 KB (10,675 words) - 23:40, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Greenhorn Limestone
    Shale" contains limy equivalents of the Greenhorn. In Kansas, the Greenhorn Formation is divided into the (lowest) Lincoln Limestone, Hartland Shale,...
    15 KB (1,341 words) - 16:12, 11 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Haynesville Shale
    underlain by limestone of the Smackover Formation. It contains vast quantities of recoverable natural gas. This natural gas is known as "shale gas" because...
    17 KB (2,003 words) - 08:07, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mancos Shale
    The Mancos Shale or Mancos Group is a Late Cretaceous (Upper Cretaceous) geologic formation of the Western United States. The Mancos Shale was first described...
    16 KB (1,279 words) - 07:55, 13 February 2024
  • equivalent the Harrell Shale in Pennsylvania. It date back to the Upper Devonian period. It is the basal unit of the Frasnian and Upper Devonian period. The...
    7 KB (848 words) - 07:06, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Antrim Shale
    The Antrim Shale is a formation of Upper Devonian age in the Michigan Basin, in the US state of Michigan, and extending into Ohio, Indiana and Wisconsin...
    6 KB (585 words) - 07:15, 10 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for Utica Shale
    The Utica Shale is a stratigraphical unit of Upper Ordovician age in the Appalachian Basin. It underlies much of the northeastern United States and adjacent...
    13 KB (1,299 words) - 02:10, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eagle Ford Group
    composed of organic matter-rich fossiliferous marine shales and marls with interbedded thin limestones. It derives its name from outcrops on the banks of...
    28 KB (3,307 words) - 15:58, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Niobrara Formation
    Fort Hays Limestone Member consists of somewhat harder, massive limestone beds. The Niobrara Formation is overlain by the marine Pierre Shale and is underlain...
    12 KB (1,029 words) - 18:06, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bright Angel Shale
    Angel Shale also gradually grades downward into the underlying Tapeats Sandstone. It also complexly interfingers with the overlying Muav Limestone. These...
    19 KB (2,094 words) - 02:01, 20 June 2024
  • formations. These are the New Creek Limestone, the Corriganville Limestone, and the Mandata Shale. The total thickness is about 60 feet. The formations weather...
    5 KB (445 words) - 12:09, 24 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Americus Limestone
    recognized as two relatively thin but persistent beds of hard limestone separated by shale that forms the lowest prominent bench of the many benches of...
    14 KB (1,400 words) - 15:39, 16 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wellington Formation
    usually but not always present. Some limestone beds, typically dolomite, are observed within these upper and lower shale divisions, variously ranked as members...
    29 KB (3,013 words) - 19:58, 16 September 2023
  • and limestone. The Muscatatuck underlies the New Albany Shale throughout of its extent, except in Northern Indiana where it underlies the Antrim Shale. The...
    4 KB (221 words) - 18:26, 3 March 2024
  • approximately 70% Shale including fissile shales, claystones, and siltstones. The remaining lithology is made up of mostly sandstone and limestone. The Buffalo...
    4 KB (300 words) - 02:11, 6 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rock of Gibraltar
    strata are the Catalan Bay Shale Formation (youngest), Gibraltar Limestone, Little Bay Shale Formation (oldest), and Dockyard Shale Formation (age unknown)...
    20 KB (2,247 words) - 02:32, 20 July 2024
  • The Burket Shale or Geneseo Shale is the lowest member of the Harrell Shale/Genessee Group. The Burket is an organic-rich black shale that rests just above...
    3 KB (223 words) - 20:04, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Queenston Formation
    Lithologically, the formation is dominated by red and grey shales with thin siltstone, limestone and sandstone interlayers. As materials, comprising the...
    10 KB (848 words) - 05:27, 9 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Wheeler Shale
    the Wheeler Shale consists of a heterogeneous succession of highly calcareous shale, shaley limestone, mudstone and thin, flaggy limestone. The Wheeler...
    17 KB (1,386 words) - 10:39, 20 March 2024
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