Chattanooga Shale
| Chattanooga Shale | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Devonian | |
| Type | Formation |
| Underlies | Maury Shale |
| Overlies | Unconformity on Ordovician Leipers Limestone and other units [1] |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Shale |
| Other | Sandstone |
| Location | |
| Region | Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia,[1] and Missouri[2] |
| Country | United States |
The Chattanooga Shale is a geologic formation in Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee. It preserves conodont fossils dating to the Devonian Period.[1] It occurs mostly as a subsurface geologic formation composed of layers of shale. It is located in Eastern Tennessee and also extends into southeastern Kentucky, northeastern Georgia, and northern Alabama. This part of Alabama is part of the Black Warrior Basin.[1]
The Chattanooga Shale of east Tennessee is reported to be an extension of or correlates with the Marcellus Shale of the Appalachian region to the east.[3] Exploratory drilling of the Chattanooga Shale in east Tennessee indicates that it contains significant amounts of natural gas. This has resulted in interest in and attempts to use hydraulic fracturing to exploit the resource.[4]
See also
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alabama
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Georgia (U.S. state)
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Indiana
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Kentucky
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Missouri
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ohio
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Tennessee
References
- ^ a b c d USGS Professional Paper 357, Chattanooga Shale and Related Rocks of Central Tennessee and Nearby Areas. by Louis C. Conant and Yernon E. Swanson, 1961
- ^ Thompson, Thomas L., 2001, Lexicon of Stratigraphic Nomenclature in Missouri, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Land Survey, Report of Investigation Number 73, p 60
- ^ Chattanooga Shale Natural Gas Field, oilshalegas.com
- ^ "Chattanooga Shale Stocks". Energy and Capital.
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 22 June 2014.
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- Shale formations of the United States
- Oil shale in the United States
- Oil-bearing shales in the United States
- Oil shale formations
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- Devonian Kentucky
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- Devonian Ohio
- Devonian geology of Tennessee
- Devonian stratigraphic units of North America
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