New Providence Shale
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| New Providence Shale | |
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| Stratigraphic range: Mississippian | |
| Type | Formation |
| Unit of | Borden Group |
| Underlies | Spickert Knob Formation |
| Overlies | Coldwater Shale and Rockford Limestone |
| Location | |
| Region | Indiana |
| Country | United States |
The New Providence Shale is a basal clay-shale geologic formation in Indiana named by Charles Butts and William W. Borden in the 1874 after New Providence, Indiana (now Borden).[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Stockdale 1986, p. 7.
Sources
[edit]- Stockdale, Paris B. (1986). Lower Mississippian Rocks of the East-Central Interior. Geological Society of America Special Paper. Geological Society of America. ISBN 978-0-8137-2022-7. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
- Generalized Stratigraphic Column of Indiana Bedrock[dead link]
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