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Coal

A readily combustible rock containing more than 50% by weight and more than 70% by volume carbonaceous material, formed by compaction and induration of variously altered plant remains...

This category is also used for anthracite and bituminous.

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Alabama

Midway Group; Naheola Formation (Paleocene): Naheola Formation - (Midway Group), The Naheola Formation is restricted to western AL and pinches out in western Butler County. Descriptions of the members of the formation follow in descending order. Coal Bluff Marl Member - glauconitic sand, thin-bedded silty clay, and sandy fossiliferous marl; Oak Hill Member - laminated silt, clay, and fine sand; contains a prominent bed of lignite near the top. The Coal Bluff Marl Member in Sumter County and in parts of Marengo County is mostly cross-bedded fine to coarse sand that is indistinguishable from the overlying lower beds of the Nanafalia Formation. Therefore, in these areas, the contact between the two is mapped at the top of the Oak Hill Member of the Naheola.
Parkwood and Pennington Formations (Pennsylvanian-Mississippian): Parkwood and Pennington Formations undifferentiated - Interbedded medium to dark-gray shale and light to medium-gray sandstone, locally contains lithic conglomerate, dusky-red and grayish-green mudstone, argillaceous limestone, and clayey coal.
Parkwood and Pennington Formations undifferentiated (Pennsylvanian-Mississippian): Parkwood and Pennington Formations undifferentiated - Interbedded medium to dark-gray shale and light to medium-gray sandstone, locally contains lithic conglomerate, dusky-red and grayish-green mudstone, argillaceous limestone, and clayey coal.
Parkwood Formation (Pennsylvanian-Mississippian): Parkwood Formation - Interbedded medium to dark-gray shale and light to medium-gray sandstone; locally contains dusky-red and grayish-green mudstone, argillaceous limestone, and clayey coal.
Parkwood Formation (Pennsylvanian-Mississippian): Parkwood Formation - Interbedded medium to dark-gray shale and light to medium-gray sandstone; locally contains dusky-red and grayish-green mudstone, argillaceous limestone, and clayey coal.
Parkwood Formation and Floyd Shale undifferentiated (Pennsylvanian-Mississippian): Parkwood Formation and Floyd Shale undifferentiated - Parkwood Formation -- Interbedded medium to dark-gray shale and light to medium-gray sandstone; locally contains dusky-red and grayish-green mudstone, argillaceous limestone, and clayey coal. Floyd Shale -- Dark-gray shale, sideritic in part; thin beds of sandstone, limestone and chert are locally present; beds of partly bioclastic, partly argillaceous limestone are abundant in parts of Calhoun and Cherokee Counties.
Pennington Formation (Mississippian): Pennington Formation - Medium-gray shale, containing interbedded limestone, dolomite, argillaceous sandstone, dusky-red and grayish-olive mudstone, and minor shaly coal. Mainly restricted to eastern part of Interior Low Plateaus province and where less than 100 feet thick the formation is included in the Bangor Limestone.
Pennington Formation (Mississippian): Pennington Formation - Medium-gray shale, containing interbedded limestone, dolomite, argillaceous sandstone, dusky-red and grayish-olive mudstone, and minor shaly coal. Mainly restricted to northeastern AL and part of the Sequatchie anticline. Where less than 100 feet thick the formation is included in the Bangor Limestone.
Pottsville Formation (Pennsylvanian): Pottsville Formation - Light-gray thin to thick-bedded quartzose sandstone and conglomerate containing interbedded dark-gray shale, siltstone, and coal. Mapped on Lookout Mountain, Blount and Chandler Mountains, and Sand Mountain northeats of Blount County, and on the mountains of Jackson, Marshall and Madison Counties north and west of the TN river.
Pottsville Formation (lower part) (Pennsylvanian): Pottsville Formation (lower part) - Light-gray thick-bedded to massive pebbly quartzose sandstone, containing varying amounts of interbedded dark-gray shale, siltstone, and thin discontinuos coal. The Boyles Sandstone Member is a formally named unit in the lower part of the formation. Top of unit is mapped at the Black Creek coal.
Pottsville Formation (lower part) (Pennsylvanian): Pottsville Formation (lower part) - Light-gray thick-bedded to massive pebbly quartzose sandstone, containing varying amounts of interbedded dark-gray shale, siltstone, and thin discontinuos coal. In both the Cahaba and Coosa synclinoria the members in descending order include: the Pine Sandstone Member and the Shades Sandstone Member. Top of unit is mapped at top of Pine Sandstone Member.
Pottsville Formation (upper part) (Pennsylvanian): Pottsville Formation (upper part) - Interbedded dark-gray shale, siltstone, medium-gray sandstone, and coal in cyclic sequences. In descending order the members include: Razburg Sandstone Member, Camp Branch Sandstone Member, Lick Creek Sandstone Member, and the Bremen Sandstone Member.
Pottsville Formation (upper part) (Pennsylvanian): Pottsville Formation (upper part) - Interbedded dark-gray shale, siltstone, medium-gray sandstone, and coal in cyclic sequences. The members present in the Cahaba synclinorium in descending order include: the Straven Conglomerate Member, Rocky Ridge Sandstone Member, and Chestnut Sandstone Member. The members present in the Coosa synclinorium in descending order include: Straight Ridge Sandstone Member and Wolf Ridge Sandstone Member.
Selma Group; Providence Sand (Cretaceous): Providence Sand - (Selma Group), Upper part consists of cross-bedded fine to coarse sand and white, dark-gray and pale-red-purple mottled clay containing lignite, sand, and kaolin; lower part consists of dark-gray laminated to thin-bedded silty clay and abundantly micaceous, carbonaceous, fossiliferous very fine to fine sand. The Providence Sand extends eastward from southeastern Lowndes County into Georgia.
Wilcox Group; Nanafalia Formation (Paleocene): Nanafalia Formation - (Wilcox Group), Members of the Nanafalia Formation follow in descending order. Grampian Hills Member - medium-gray massive clay, claystone, sandy fossiliferous clay, and fossiliferous fine sand. "Ostrea thirsae beds" - glauconitic, abundantly fossiliferous, quartzose fine to medium sand. Gravel Creek Sand Member - pale-yellowish-orange to moderate-reddish-brown micaceous cross-bedded fine to very coarse sand containing gravel and clay pebbles in some exposures. Gravel Creek Member is absent locally and near the base may contain thin beds of lignite. Updip deposits in northern Henry County and southern Barbour County include beds of alternating medium-gray and white clay, carbonaceous clay, white and grayish-yellow fine to coarse sand and lenses of bauxite and bauxitic clay. Sand beds commonly are cross-bedded, gravelly, and contain numerous clay pebbles. The sequence of beds is often obscured by weathering and the collapse of beds into sinkholes in the underlying Clayton Formation.
Wilcox Group; Tuscahoma Sand (Paleocene): Tuscahoma Sand - (Wilcox Group), Light-gray to light-olive-gray laminated and thin-bedded carbonaceous silt and clay interbedded with fine sand; thin lignite beds occur locally. Lower part of the formation includes beds of fossiliferous, glauconitic fine quartz sand containing speroidal sandstone concretions, gravel and clay pebbles.

Arkansas

Atoka Formation, undivided (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle [Atokan] ): Atoka Formation, undivided
Claibourne Group (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene-Middle): Claibourne Group
Harthshorne Sandstone (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle [Des Moinesian]): Harthshorne Sandstone
McAlester Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle [Des Moinesian]): McAlester Formation
Savanna Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Late [Des Moinesian]): Savanna Formation
Tokio Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): Tokio Formation
Wilcox Group (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene-Early): Wilcox Group

Arizona

Cretaceous sedimentary rocks (Cretaceous): Tan sandstone (Dakota Sandstone) overlain by gray shale (Mancos Shale); deposited in beach, river delta, and shallow sea settings. The Mancos Shale is overlain by the Mesaverde Group (map unit Kmv). This unit includes related sandstone and shale exposed near Show Low, Morenci (Pinkard Formation), and around Deer Creek south of Globe. (about 88-97 Ma)
Sedimentary rocks of the Late Cretaceous Mesaverde Group (Late Cretaceous): Gray to buff sandstone with interbedded shale and coal. These rocks, which are similar to slightly younger rocks that form Mesa Verde in southwestern Colorado, were deposited on the margin of a shallow sea. Rocks of this map unit host the only large coal deposits in Arizona. (84-88 Ma)

California

Eocene nonmarine rocks, unit 1 (Northern and Central California) (Eocene): Sandstone, shale, and conglomerate.
Oligocene nonmarine rocks, unit 1 (Northern California) (Oligocene to Miocene): Sandstone, shale, and conglomerate; in part Miocene and Eocene.
Plio-Pleistocene and Pliocene loosely consolidated deposits (Miocene to Pleistocene): Pliocene and/or Pleistocene sandstone, shale, and gravel deposits; in part Miocene.
Upper Cretaceous marine rocks, unit 2 (Klamath Mountains) (late Early to Late Cretaceous): Upper Cretaceous sandstone, shale, and conglomerate

Colorado

Coalmont Fm (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary): Arkosic sandstone, conglomerate, and shale; coal in lower part; in North Park
Denver Fm or lower part of Dawson Arkose (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic Cenozoic | Cretaceous Tertiary): Arkosic sandstone, shale, mudstone, conglomerate, and local coal beds
Fort Union Fm (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary): Shale, sandstone, and local coal beds
Iles Fm (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous): Sandstone and shale. Trout Creek Sandstone Member at top; coal beds in upper half
Kirtland Shale and Fruitland Fm (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous): Shale, sandstone, and major coal beds
Lance Fm (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous): Shale, sandstone, and minor coal beds; Fox Hills equivalent at base
Laramie Fm (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous): Shale, claystone, sandstone, and major coal beds
Laramie Fm and Fox Hills Sandstone (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous)
Menefee Fm and Point Lookout Sandstone (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous): sandstone, shale, and coal; sandstone
Mesaverde Fm, undivided (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous): In northwest and west-central: Major coal beds in lower part; Rollins Sandstone Member at base in Delta, Gunnison, and Pitkin Counties. In southwest: sandstone and shale.
Mesaverde Group or Fm--Lower part (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous): Sandstone, shale, and major coal beds
Mesaverde Group or Fm--Upper part (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous): In Moffat and Rio Blanco Counties, sandstone, shale, and coal beds above Sego Sandstone. Along Grand Hogback south of Colorado River, sandstone and shale above coal-bearing sequence
Mount Garfield Fm and Sego Sandstone (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous): Sandstone and shale; major coal beds in lower part of Mount Garfield
Raton Fm (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic Cenozoic | Cretaceous Tertiary): Arkosic sandstone, siltstone, and shale; contains major coal deposits in Raton Basin
Vermejo Fm and Trinidad Sandstone (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous): Shale, sandstone, and major coal beds; sandstone
Williams Fork Fm (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous): Sandstone, shale, and major coal beds

Georgia

Lookout Sandstone; Gizzard Formation (Pennsylvanian): Lookout Sandstone; Gizzard Formation

Iowa

Cherokee Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle [Des Moines]): Cyclic deposits with carbonaceous shale, clay, siltstone, with lesser sandstone, and thick coal beds; minor but persistent limestone beds; may include parts of Atoka or Morrow Series.
Marmaton Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle [Des Moines]): Alternating shale and limestone, with some sandstone and coal; Lenapah FM at top and Fort Scott at base.
Pleasanton Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Late [Missouri]): Shale with some sandstone, thin limestone beds and minor coal; Exline Limestone near top Chariton Conglomerate at base. .
Wabaunsee Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Late [Virgil]): Cyclic deposits, principally shale with limestone, siltstone, minor sandstone units and thin coal seams.

Idaho

Sandstone, siltstone, shale, limestone, and coal ; Early Cretaceous Cordilleran retroarc-foreland-basin deposits; southeastern Idaho (Early Cretaceous): Lower Cretaceous shale, siltstone, red-bed sandstone and fresh-water limestone.
Tuff, arkose, claystone, siltstone, conglomerate, lignite; Miocene alluvial and lacustrine deposits (Miocene): Miocene stream and lake deposits; generally associated with volcanic episodes.

Illinois

Abbott Formation (Pennsylvanian): Abbott Formation
Bond Formation (Pennsylvanian): Bond Formation
Carbondale Formation (Pennsylvanian): Carbondale Formation
Caseyville Formation (Pennsylvanian): Caseyville
Lower Chesterian (Glen Dean - Renault) Series (Mississippian): Lower Chersterian (Glen Dean - Renault) Series
Mattoon Formation (Pennsylvanian): Mattoon Formation
Modesto Formation (Pennsylvanian): Modesto Formation
Spoon Formation (Pennsylvanian): Spoon (includes Pa in northeast)
Upper Chesterian (Grove Church - Tar Springs) Series (Mississippian): Upper Chesterian (Grove Church - Tar Springs) Series

Indiana

Bond Formation (Pennsylvanian): Bond Formation - Mostly shale and sandstone; also includes thin beds of limestone and coal
Carbondale Group (Pennsylvanian): Carbondale Group - Mostly shale and sandstone; also includes thin beds of limestone, clay, and coal. S, Springfield Coal Member
Mattoon Formation (Pennsylvanian): Mattoon Formation - Mostly shale and sandstone; also includes thin beds of coal
Patoka and Shelburn Formations (Pennsylvanian): Patoka and Shelburn Formations - Mostly shale and sandstone; also includes thin beds of limestone and coal. WF, top of West Franklin member
Raccoon Creek Group (Pennsylvanian): Raccoon Creek Group - Mostly shale and sandstone; also includes thin beds of limestone, clay, and coal. B, Buffaloville Coal Member; LB, Lower Block Coal Member

Kansas

Admire Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Late): Includes: Grenola Limestone, Roca Shale, Red Eagle Limestone (base RE), Johnson Shale, Foraker Limestone (base FO), Janesville Shale with Five Point Limestone Member (base FP), Falls City Limestone, and Onaga Shale.
Cherokee Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Early [Desmoinesian]): Includes: Cabaniss FM (base CA) with Verdigris Limestone Member (base V) and Mineral coal bed (base MC), Krebs FM with Bluejacket Sandstone Member (base BJ) and Warner Sandstone Member (base WR).
Dakota Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Early): White, gray, red, brown and tan kaolinitic claystone, mudstone, shale and siltstone interbedded with grayish to yellowish brown thick lenticular sandstone beds. It also contains lignite and sandstone is commonly well cemented with iron oxide and calcite.
Douglas Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Late [Virgilian]): Lawrence FM (base LA)- mostly gray shale and sandstone with minor red shale, coal, gray limestone and conglomerate, thickness ranges from 140ft to 250 ft. Stranger FM- five members containing sandstone, shale, and minor limestone, coal and conglomerate ranging from 100 ft. to 180 ft. thickness.
Kansas City Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle [Missourian]): Includes: Lane Shale,Wyandotte Limestone (base WY), Liberty Memorial Shale, Iola Limestone (base I), Chanute Shale (base CH), Dewey Limestone, Nellie Bly FM, Cherryvale FM, Dennis Limestone (base DN), Galeburg Shale, Mound Valley Limestone, Ladore Shale, Swope Limestone (base SW), Elm Branch Shale, Hertha Limestone.
Marmaton Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Early [Desmoinesian]): Includes: Lost Branch FM, Memorial Shale, Lenapah Limestone (base LE), Nowata Shale, Altamont Limestone (base PA), Bandera Shale, Pawnee Limestone (base PA), Labette Shale and Fort Scott Limestone.
Pleasanton Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle [Missourian]): Includes: Shale Hill FM (base SH), and Hepler FM. Chiefly gray to very dark gray or yellowish gray shale with sandstone members and some limestone and coal.

Kentucky

Breathitt Formation, lower part (Pennsylvanian): Breathitt Formation, lower part; lower part which includes Livingston Conglomerate Member of Lee Formation in eastern Rockcastle County
Breathitt Formation, middle part (Pennsylvanian): Breathitt Formation, middle part
Breathitt Formation, upper part (Pennsylvanian): Breathitt Formation, upper part
Carbondale Formation (Middle Pennsylvanian): Carbondale Formation
Caseyville Formation (Lower to Middle Pennsylvanian): Caseyville Formation
Lee Formation (Mississippian to Pennsylvanian ): Lee Formation
Monongahela and Conemaugh Formations, undivided (Pennsylvanian): Monongahela and Conemaugh Formations, undivided
Sturgis Formation (Middle to Upper Pennsylvanian): Sturgis Formation
Tradewater Formation (Middle Pennsylvanian): Tradewater Formation

Louisiana

Blounts Creek Member (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Miocene Pliocene): gray to green silty clays, siltstones, and silts with abundant sand beds; some lignite and lenses of black chert gravel.
Jackson Group (undifferentiated) (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene): light gray to brown liginitic clays with thin interbeds of limonitic sands or lignite; near base,calcareous, glauconitic, and fossiliferous beds may weather to black soil.
Jackson Group (undifferentiated) (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene): light gray to brown liginitic clays with thin interbeds of limonitic sands or lignite; near base,calcareous, glauconitic, and fossiliferous beds may weather to black soil. Overlain by 1-9 meters of loess.
Sparta Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene): white to light gray massive sands with interbedded clays; some thin beds of lignite or lignitic sands and shales.
Vicksburg Group (undifferentiated) (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Oligocene): brown to gray liginitic clays with thin interbeds of lignite or micaceous sands; calcareous shale, petrified wood, and bluish fossilferous clay locally.
Vicksburg Group (undifferentiated) (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Oligocene): brown to gray liginitic clays with thin interbeds of lignite or micaceous sands; calcareous shale, petrified wood, and bluish fossilferous clay locally. Overlain by 1-9 meters of loess.
Wilcox Group (undifferentiated) (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene): gray to brown lignitic sands and silty to sandy lignitic clays, many seams of lignite; some limestone and glauconite.

Massachusetts

Rhode Island Formation (Upper and Middle Pennsylvanian): Rhode Island Formation - Conglomerate, sandstone, and graywacke. Rhode Island Formation is thickest and most extensive formation in Narragansett basin. Does not extend to Norfolk basin. Consists of gray sandstone and siltstone and lesser amounts of gray to black shale, gray conglomerate, and coal beds 10 m thick. Interfingers with Wamsutta Formation in Narragansett basin. In places overlies Dedham Granite. Age is Middle and Late Pennsylvanian (Goldsmith, 1991).

Maryland

Allegheny Formation and Pottsville Formation (Pennsylvanian): Allegheny Formation - Interbedded sandstone, siltstone, claystone, shale, and coal beds; Upper Freeport coal at top; where present, Brookville coal defines base; thickness 275 feet in northeast, increases to 325 feet in south and west. And Pottsville Formation - Interbedded sandstone, siltstone, claystone, shale, and coal beds; conglomeratic orthoquartzite and protoquartzite at base; thickness 60 feet in northeast, increases to 440 feet in southwest
Conemaugh Formation (Pennsylvanian): Conemaugh Formation - Includes the rocks between the base of the Pittsburgh coal and the top of the Upper Freeport coal; consists of two unnamed members which are separated by the Barton coal; both members are gray and brown claystone, shale, siltstone and sandstone, with several coal beds; lower member also contains redbeds and fossiliferous marine shales; thickness 825 to 925 feet.
Dunkard Group (Permian): Dunkard Group - Red and green shale, siltstone, and sandstone, with thin lenticular beds of argillaceous limestone and thin beds of impure coal; thick-bedded, white conglomeratic sandstone at base; thickness greater than 200 feet; occurs only on hilltop
Monongahela Formation (Pennsylvanian): Monongahela Formation - Interbedded claystone, argillaceous limestone, shale, sandstone, and coal beds; Waynesburg coal at top; Pittsburg coal at base; thickness 240 feet in west, increases to 375 feet in east.
Pocono Group, including the Purslane Sandstone and Rockwell Formation (Mississippian): Pocono Group - Gray, white, tan, and brown, thin- to thick-bedded, cross-bedded sandstone, locally conglomeratic; interbedded gray and reddish-brown shale, mudstone, and siltstone; fragmentary plant fossils. Undifferentiated in Garrett and western Allegeny Counties. Includes Purslane Sandstone - White, thick-bedded, coarse-grained sandstone and conglomerate with thin coal beds and red shales. Eastern Allegany and Washington Counties. And also inlcudes Rockwell Formation - Coarse-grained arkosic sandstone, fine-grained conglomerate, and buff shale; dark shale with thin coal beds near base. Eastern Allegany and Washington Counties.

Michigan

Saginaw Formation (Pennsylvanian): Saginaw Formation

Missouri

CHEROKEE GROUP- Cabaniss Subgroup, Krebs Subgroup (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle [Middle Desmonian]): CHEROKEE GROUP - Cabaniss Subgroup - cyclic deposits, shale, sandstone, clay and several workable coal beds. Krebs Subgroup - cyclic deposits, sandstone, siltstone, shale, clay and some workable coal beds
DOUGLAS GROUP (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Late [Upper Virgilian]): DOUGLAS GROUP - cyclic deposits, dominantly shale with sandstone, and limestone.
KANSAS CITY GROUP (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Late [Upper Missourian]): KANSAS CITY GROUP - cyclic deposits, limestone and shale with minor sandstone and coal.
MARMATON GROUP (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle [Middle Desmonian]): MARMATON GROUP - cyclic deposits, shale and limestone with sandstone, clay and several coal beds, some workable
PENNSYLVANIAN UNDIFFERENTIATED (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian): PENNSYLVANIAN UNDIFFERENTIATED
PLEASANTON GROUP (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Late [Upper Missourian]): PLEASANTON GROUP - dominantly shale and sandstone with minor coal.
RIVERTON FORMATION, BURGNER FORMATION (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle [Atokan]): RIVERTON FORMATION - shale, clay, coal. BURGNER FORMATION - limestone
WABAUNSEE GROUP (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Late [Upper Virgilian]): WABAUNSEE GROUP - cyclic deposits, principally shale, sitlstone, sandstone with thin limestone beds and minor coal

Mississippi

Cockfield (Eocene): Cockfield - (Claiborne group), Irregularly bedded, more or less laminated liginitic clay, sand, and lignite; sparingly glauconitic.
Forest Hill formation and Red Bluff clay (Oligocene): Forest Hill formation and Red Bluff clay - Forest Hill sand, cross-bedded fine gray sand, laminated fine sand and clay, and a little lignite; in Wayne and Clarke Counties lower part merges eastward into Red Bluff clay, blue-green glauconitic, gypsiferous, fossiliferous clay and thin limestone beds.
Wilcox formation (Eocene): Wilcox formation - Irregularly bedded fine to coarse sand, more or less lignitic clay and lignite; includes bauxite bearing Fearn Springs sand member at base.

Montana

Eagle sandstone (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): Eagle sandstone: sandstone and shaly sandstone with lignite beds in basal part of upper unit (Keu). The Virgelle sandstone member (Kvi) at base is distinguished where possible. Near Yellowstone National Park rocks incorrectly called Laramide in early reports and now regarded as roughly equivalent to the Eagle sandstone are tentatively mapped as Eagle sandstone.
Fort Union formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary Cretaceous-Late | Paleocene): Fort Union formation: Clay shale, siltstone, and sandstone; local lenses of impure limestone, and numerous lignitic beds; contains Tertiary plant and animal fossils but no dinosaurs; base generally placed at the lowest of the succession of lignite beds within it; includes the Tongue River member, Lebo shale member, and Tullock member.
Hell Creek formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic Cenozoic | Cretaceous-Late Tertiary | Paleocene): Hell Creek formation: somber-gray sandstone and greenish shaly clay and mudstone containing dinosaur bones; a few thin lignite and subbituminous coal beds.
Judith River formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): Judith River formation: light-colored sandstone at top; lower third somber-gray siltstone and sandy shale; greenish-gray clay and some lignite beds; includes the Parkman sandstone member of south-central Montana.
Lennep sandstone (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): Lennep sandstone: mainly dark-brown andesitic sandstone with intercalated shale; locally contains thin coal beds.
Montana group, undifferentiated (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): Montana group, undifferentiated: mainly sandstone and shale, soft and in part poorly consolidated; some coal; shown undivided only in areas where detailed data are lacking and in these areas some rocks not of Montana age may have been included. In particular, rocks designated Km in southwestern Montana may include some Tertiary strata.
Tertiary sedimentary rocks, undifferentiated (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary): Tertiary sedimentary rocks, undifferentiated: clastic deposits in western Montana, mostly in valleys, and in most places not divided into formations; mostly poorly consolidated gravel, sand, silt, and clay; includes some tuffaceous material and locally lenses of lignite and bentonite; a little hot spring tufa; and in areas not yet mapped in detail, lava may be included. These rocks were in part laid down in lakes but a large part was formed in streams and alluvial fans. These rocks are Tertiary in age and as now mapped may even include some beds of Cretaceous age. Some late Tertiary terrace deposits may be included.
Tertiary volcanic rocks (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary): Tertiary volcanic rocks: Flows and associated pyroclastic deposits, with subordinate amounts of intercalated sedimentary beds and lignite. The volcanic material is mostly latite, quartz latite, and andesite but includes some rhyolite and basalt. The distinction between Tertiary and pre-Tertiary volcanic rocks was not made in some of the reports used in the complilation. Hence in the less well-known areas some pre-Tertiary volcanic rocks may be included.
Wasatch formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary): Wasatch formation: Light-colored massive sandstone; drab-colored shale and coal in southeastern Montana; and variegated, dominantly red beds of clay and sandstone in north-central Montana.

North Carolina

Newark Supergroup, Chatham Group; Cumnock Formation (Triassic): Cumnock Formation - sandstone and mudstone, gray to black; coal beds and carbonaceous shale. Grades into Pekin and Sanford formations.

North Dakota

Bullion Creek Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene): Yellow-brown silt, sand, clay, sandstone, and lignite; river, lake, and swamp sediment; as thick as 200 meters (600 feet).
Ludlow Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene): Gray-brown and yellow-brown silt, sand, clay and sandstone, and lignite; river, lake, and swamp sediment; as thick as 100 meters (300 feet).
Sentinel Butte Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene): Gray-brown silt, sand, clay, sandstone, and lignite; river, lake, and swamp sediment; as thick as 200 meters (600 feet).
Slope Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene): Gray-brown and yellow-brown silt, sand, clay, sandstone, and lignite; river, lake, and swamp sediment; as thick as 100 meters (300 feet).

Nebraska

Fox Hills Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): Consists of fossiliferous, gray, ferruginous and yellowish fine-grained sandstone, arenaceous clays and a few interbeds of gray to brown sandy shale and coal totaling 172 ft thick at that section. Estimated thickness 500 ft.
Wabaunsee Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Late [Virgilian]): Shale, sandstone, and interbedded limestone. Shale is light gray to dark gray, greenish gray, red, or black; contains very thin layers of siltstone; locally very fossiliferous, carbonaceous. Sandstone is brownish gray to yellowish gray, or gray, argillaceous , and micaceous. Limestone is dark gray to medium gray, yellowish gray, thin bedded to thick bedded; very fossiliferous. Contains coal beds less than 1 ft. thick. Approx. max thickness 300 ft

New Mexico

Crevasse Canyon Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous): Crevasse Canyon Formation; coal-bearing units are Dilco and Gibson Coal Members; other members are Bartlett Barren, Dalton Sandstone, and Borrego Pass Sandstone (or Lentil)
Kirtland and Fruitland Formations (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous): Kirtland and Fruitland Formations; coal-bearing, coal primarily in the Fruitland; Campanian to Maastrichtian
Menefee Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous): Menefee Formation; mudstone, shale, and sandstone; coal-bearing
Mesaverde Group (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous): Mesaverde Group includes the Gallup Sandstone, Crevasse Canyon Formation, Point Lookout Sandstone, Menefee Formation, and Cliff House Sandstone
Moreno Hill Formation and Atarque Sandstone (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous): Moreno Hill Formation and Atarque Sandstone; in Salt Lake coal field and extreme southern Zuni basin; Turonian
Poison Canyon and Raton Fromations (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic Cenozoic | Cretaceous Tertiary): Poison Canyon and Raton Formations; undivided
Raton Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic Cenozoic | Cretaceous Tertiary): Raton Formation; in Raton Basin; unit contains conformable K/T boundary
Vermejo Formation and Trinidad Sandstone (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous): Vermejo Formation and Trinidad Sandstone; Maastrichtian

Ohio

Allegheny and Pottsville Groups, Undivided (Pennsylvanian): Allegheny and Pottsville Groups, Undivided - Shale, siltstone, and underclay: Shale, black, gray, and olive; clayey to silty; locally contains marine fossils; calcareous in part. Siltstone, gray, greenish and olive; clayey to sandy; thin bedded to medium bedded; locally contain marine fossils. Underclay, gray and olive; generally 3 feet or less in thickness; clayey to silty; commonly rooted and underlying coal beds; nonbedded; locally varies from flint to plastic clay. Sandstone, light to medium gray weathers to shades of yellow-brown; mostly very fine to medium grained, locally quartzose and conglomeratic in lower one-third of unit; thin to massive to cross bedded; locally calcareous; Limestone, flint and coal. Limestone, black to light gray; micritic to medium grained; locally grades into flint; thin to medium bedded to discoidal concretions containing marine fossils; locally nonmarine, micritic limestones occur beneath coal beds in upper one third of unit. Coal, mostly banded bituminous, locally cannel; thin to locally as much as 12 feet thick; generally in discrete beds but locally contain shale partings and split into multiple beds. Lateral and vertical lithic variability and gradation common. Unit as much as 700 feet thick.
Conemaugh Group (Pennsylvanian): Conemaugh Group - Shale, siltstone, and mudstone: Shale, black, gray, green and red; clayey to silty; locally contains marine fossils in lower half of unit; calcareous in part. Siltstone, gray, green and red, locally variegated; clayed to sandy; thin bedded to nonbedded. Mudstone, black, gray, green, red, and yellow, variegated in part; clayey to silty; locally calcareous; commonly nonbedded. Sandstone, green-gray weathers to shades of yellow-brown; mostly very fine to medium grained, locally conglomeratic; thin to massive to cross bedded; locally calcareous. Limestone and coal; thin and discontinuous. Limestone, black, gray and green; micritic to coarse grained; thin bedded to concretionary with marine fossils common in lower half of interval; thin to medium bedded, nonmarine limestone common in upper half of unit. Coal, thin, bituminous, impure; very locally thick enough for economic development. Lateral and vertical lithic variability and gradation common. Unit as much as 500 feet thick.
Dunkard Group (Permian and/or Pennsylvanian): Dunkard Group - Mudstone, shale, and siltstone (60-70 percent); shades of red, yellow, olive, and/or brown in southern areas of Ohio to gray, green and black in northern areas; clayey to sandy; nonbedded to thin bedded; locally calcareous. Sandstone (25-35 percent); blue-gray weathers to shades of yellow-brown; fine grained to locally conglomeratic; thin to massive to cross bedded. Limestone and coal (5 percent): Limestone, gray, micritic, clayey to silty, thin to medium bedded in northern areas of Ohio, nodular bedded to argillaceous in southern areas. Coal, black, banded, thin, discontinuous, impure; poorly developed in southern areas of Ohio. Limestones and coals best developed in lower 90 to 200 feet. Lateral and vertical lithic variability and gradation common. Unit greater than 600 feet thick in southeast Ohio.
Monongahela Group (Pennsylvanian): Monongahela Group - Shale, siltstone, and mudstone; black, red, gray and green to variegated red and yellow in the southeastern areas of Ohio; clayey to sandy; nonbedded to thin bedded; locally calcareous. Sandstone, greenish-gray weathers to shades of yellow-brown, silty to locally conglomeratic; thin to massive to cross bedded; locally calcareous. Limestone, gray, micritic, clayey to silty, thin to medium bedded; generally more common in middle and lower portions of unit. Coal, banded, bituminous, thin to as much as 8 feet thick in central and northern areas, thinner to absent in southeastern Ohio. Lateral and vertical lithic variability and gradation common. Unit as much as 350 feet thick.

Oklahoma

Bluejacket Sandstone (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle): ARDMORE-SHERMAN- "Bluejacket Sandstone," IPbj, sandstone, at base, of Boggy FM, 8 to 12 feet thick, with 2-foot "Secor coal" 50 feet above top of Bluejacket. McALESTER TEXARKANA- Sandstone, tan, fine- to coarse-grained, micaceous, quartzose, moderately to well-indurated; erodes into a mappable escarpment; thickness, 12 to 266 feet, increasing eastward.
Boggy Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle): TULSA- Shale, sandstone, and coal. FORT SMITH- Shale, sandstone, and coal; includes Bluejacket Sandstone Member at base. ARDMORE-SHERMAN- Shale and sandstone, blue-gray to brown, fine- to coarse- grained, with some thin limestone lenses and a coal bed 2.5 feet thick about 400 feet above base. Thickness, 1,250 to 2,800 feet. "Bluejacket Sandstone," IPbj, at base, 8 to 12 feet thick, with 2-foot "Secor coal" 50 feet above top of Bluejacket. (Lower Franks Conglomerate) McALESTER TEXARKANA- Shale, brown, to blue-gray, illitic, chloritic, with many sandstones, fine- to coarse-grained, micaceous, quartzose, moderately to well-indurated, with "Secor coal" about 50 feet above base; thickness, 2,140 to 4,000 feet, increasing eastward.
Coffeyville and Checkerboard Formations or Checkerboard Limestone (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle): ENID- "Coffeyville Formation" is mainly shale interbedded with fine-to medium-grained sandstone. Locally formation contains thin coal seams. Thickness ranges from 175 to 470 feet (50 to 140 m). Underlying "Checkerboard Limestone" is crystalline limestone 2 to 15 feet (1 to 5 m) thick. TULSA- "Coffeyville Formation," shale and thin-bedded sandstone. "Checkerboard Formation," limestone and some shale. OKLAHOMA CITY- "Coffeyville Formation," mainly shale interbedded with fine- to medium-grained sandstone locally containing chert and limestone conglomerate and thin coal seams; thickness, 150 to 470 feet. Underlying "Checkerboard Limestone," crystalline limestone 2.5 to 5 feet thick.
Dexter Member of Woodbine Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late ): ARDMORE-SHERMAN- sandstone, shale, and lignite, moderately to weakly indurated, about 100 feet thick.
Hartshorne Sandstone (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle): ARDMORE-SHERMAN- Sandstone, gray to white, medium- to coarse-grained with interbedded middle gray shale and "Lower Hartshorne coal;" thickness, 10 to 300 feet. McALESTER TEXARKANA- Sandstone, tan to gray to white, fine- to coarse-grained, micaceous, quartzose, moderately to well-indurated, with some interbedded gray shale; "Lower Hartshorne coal" in middle and "Upper Hartshorne coal" at top; thickness, 100 to 350 feet, increasing eastward.
McAlester and Hartshorne Formations (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle): TULSA- "McAlester and Hartshorne Formations", shale and some sandstone and coal. FORT SMITH- IPmh "McAlester" and "Hartshorne Formations" (undifferentiated), shale, sandstone, and coal.
McAlester Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle): ARDMORE-SHERMAN- Shale, gray, with "Upper Hartshorne coal" 1 to 50 feet above base, 500 to 600 feet thick; overlain by dark-gray shale with many buff fine-grained sandstones, 595 to 1,030 feet thick; overlain by dark-gray shale, 300 to 925 feet thick, with "McAlester coal," 1 to 3 feet thick, a few feet above base. Total thickness ranges from 1,150 to 2,420 feet. (Lower Franks Conglomerate) McALESTER TEXARKANA- Shale, gray, illitic, chloritic, with many tan to gray sandstones, fine- to coarse-grained, micaceous, quartzose; "McAlester and Stigler coals" 600 to 800 feet or more below top; thickness, 2,000 to 2,830 feet, increasing eastward
Red Branch Member of Woodbine Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late ): ARDMORE-SHERMAN- indurated sandstone, shale, and lignite, about 75 feet thick, erodes to an escarpment; and basal Dexter Member.
Savanna and McAlester Formations (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle): FORT SMITH- IPsm "Savanna" and "McAlester Formations" (undifferentiated; T. 15 N., Rs. 18, 19 E.), shale and minor sandstones
Savanna Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle): TULSA- "Savanna Formation," shale and thin sandstone, limestone, and coal. FORT SMITH- IPsa "Savanna Formation," shale, sandstone, and coal ARDMORE-SHERMAN- Sandstone and shale, gray to brown, fine- to coarse- grained, cherty, with several thin coal seams near middle; thickness, 1,120 to 1,600 feet (Lower Franks Conglomerate) McALESTER TEXARKANA- Shale, tan to brown, illitic, chloritic, and sandstone, fine-to coarse-grained, micaceous, quartzose, with several thin coal seams in middle, one of which is "Cavanal coal;" thickness, 1,470 to 2,000 feet, increasing eastward.
Savanna + McAlester + Hartshorne + Atoka Formations (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle): TULSA- "Savanna, McAlester, Hartshorne, and Atoka Formations," shale, sandstone, siltstone, limestone, and coal.
Savanna + McAlester + Hartshorne Formations (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle): TULSA- "Savanna, McAlester, and Hartshorne Formations," shale and some sandstone, limestone, and coal
Seminole Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle): TULSA- Shale, sandstone, and thin coal beds. OKLAHOMA CITY- Chert conglomerate, shale, and fine-grained sandstone containing coal seams in upper part locally. Thickness ranges from 100 to 375 feet. FORT SMITH- Sandy shale, sandstone, and thin coal seams. ARDMORE-SHERMAN- Shale, gray-green, with buff fine-grained sandstones, chert conglomerates, and limy sandstones; thickness, about 120 feet. (Upper Franks Conglomerate)
Senora Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle): TULSA- Shale with thin and lenticular sandstone, minor limestone, and coal. OKLAHOMA CITY- Mainly fine-grained micaceous sandstone and shale locally containing coal beds. Thickness ranges from about 500 to 950 feet. FORT SMITH- Shale, sandstone, and thin coal seams. ARDMORE-SHERMAN- Shale, gray, and light-brown medium-grained sandstone; thickness, 150 to 500 feet, decreasing southwestward. Subdivided into lower sandstone, 350 feet thick, and upper shale, 150 feet thick.
Vanoss Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Late): ENID- Alternating layers of limestone and shale to north, grading southward into limestone, shale, and fine-grained arkosic sandstone. Locally group contains thin coal seams. Near Kansas border, group includes (descending): "Salem Point Shale" (12 feet thick) at top, underlain by "Burr Limestone" (8 feet thick), "Legion Shale" (4 feet thick), "Sallyards Limestone" (3 feet thick), "Roca Shale" (15 feet thick), "Red Eagle Limestone," IPvre (20 feet thick), "Johnson Shale" (35 feet thick), "Long Creek Limestone," IPvlc (10 feet thick), unnamed shale (3 feet thick), "Hughes Creek Limestone (15 feet thick), unnamed shale (12 feet thick), "Americus Limestone, "IPvam, (12 feet thick), "Oaks Shale" (3 feet thick), "Houchen Creek Limestone (8 feet thick), "Stine Shale" (20 feet thick), "Five Point Limestone" (3 feet thick), unnamed shale (12 feet thick), "Brownville Limestone, IPvb (8 feet thick), "Pony Creek Shale" (40 feet thick), "Grayhorse Limestone," IPvg (5 feet thick), unnamed shale (12 feet thick), "Nebraska City Limestone" (5 feet thick), "French Creek Shale" (12 feet thick), "Jim Creek Limestone" (3 feet thick), "Friedrich Shale" (30 feet thick), "Grandhaven Limestone" (2 feet thick), "Dry Shale" (25 feet thick), "Dover Limestone" (30 feet thick), "Willard-Langdon Shale" (110 feet thick), "Elmont Limestone," IPve (10 feet thick), "Stonebreaker Shale" (20 feet thick), and "Reading Limestone" (20 feet thick) at base. Total thickness, about 500 feet (150 m). OKLAHOMA CITY- Red-brown to gray shale and orange-brown fine-grained, crossbedded sandstone; grades southward into arkosic sandstoneand conglomerate. Includes many thin limestone beds and shale units north of North Canadian River (descending): "Roca Shale"(75 feet thick), "Red Eagle Limestone," IPvre (3 to 8 feetthick), "Johnson Shale" (60 feet thick), "Long Creek Limestone," IPvlc (9 to 12 feet thick), "Hughes Creek Shale" (52 feet thick), "Americus Limestone," IPva (1.0 to 2.5 feetthick), "Admire Shale" (70 feet thick), "BrownvilleLimestone," IPvb (1 to 3 feet thick), "Pony Creek Shale" (75 feet thick), "Grayhorse Limestone," IPvg (1 foot thick), unnamed shale (70 feet thick), "Elmont Limestone," IPve (1.2to 7.8 feet thick), "Stonebreaker Shale" (60 feet thick), and"Reading Limestone" (1.5 feet thick), at base. Totalthickness of group ranges from 250 feet in south to 490 feet in north. ARDMORE-SHERMAN- Shale, maroon, arkose, and limestone conglomerate; thickness, 250 to 900 feet (subsurface), decreasing southward. (Pontotoc Group)
Woodbine Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): McALESTER TEXARKANA- Sand, dark-green, yellowish-red, white, gray, fine- to coarse-grained, tuffaceous in upper part; crossbedded, quartzose, and brownish-red noncalcareous clay; some gravel lentils with little to no quartz and some lignites and fossil plants; rests unconformably upon successively older Cretaceous units eastward; thickness, 325 to 455 feet, increasing eastward.

Oregon

Marine sedimentary and tuffaceous rocks (middle Miocene to upper Eocene) (Late Eocene to Middle Miocene): Tuffaceous and arkosic sandstone, locally fossiliferous, tuffaceous siltstone, tuff, glauconitic sandstone, minor conglomerate layers and lenses, and a few thin coal beds. Includes Scappoose Formation (Trimble, 1963; Wells and others, 1983), mudstone of Oswald West (Niem and Van Atta, 1973; Wells and others, 1983), Pittsburg Bluff Formation (see Wells and others, 1983), and Smuggler Cove and Northrup Creek formations (informal names) of Niem and Niem (1985)
Marine sedimentary rocks (lower Miocene and Oligocene) (Oligocene to Early Miocene): Fossiliferous marine tuffaceous arkosic sandstone, and lesser conglomerate, sandstone, claystone, nonmarine volcanic sedimentary rocks, and minor coal. Molluscan and vertebrate (Cetacea) fossils indicate late Oligocene and Miocene age (Orr and Miller, 1983; Miller and Orr, 1984b). Includes Butte Creek beds of Harper (1946), and several Miocene and late Oligocene units of Miller and Orr (1984a, b)
Yaquina Formation (lower Miocene and upper Oligocene) (Late Oligocene to Early Miocene): Thick- to thin-bedded sandstone, conglomerate, and tuffaceous siltstone of deltaic origin; locally contains thin coal and ash beds. Conglomerate contains abundant clasts of pumice and dacitic volcanic rocks. In places includes thick lenses of marine tuffaceous siltstone and fine-grained sandstone. Foraminifers in formation assigned to the Zemorrian and lower part of the Saucesian Stages of Kleinpell (1938) and molluscan fauna to the lower Blakeley Stage of Weaver and others (1944)

Pennsylvania

Allegheny and Pottsville Formations, undivided (Pennsylvanian): Allegheny and Pottsville Formations, undivided - Sandstone, shale, and some coal; includes lower Pottsville conglomerate and overlying strata equivalent to Allegheny Formation in north-central outliers; formational boundary not determined due to lack of correlation with Brookville-Clarion coal.
Allegheny Formation (Pennsylvanian): Allegheny Formation - Cyclic sequences of sandstone, shale, limestone, clay, and coal; includes valuable clay deposits and Vanport Limestone; commercially valuable Freeport, Kittanning, and Brookville-Clarion coals present; base is at bottom of Brookville-Clarion coal.
Burgoon Sandstone (Mississippian): Burgoon Sandstone - Buff, medium-grained, crossbedded sandstone; includes shale and coal; in places, contains conglomerate at base; contains plant fossils; equivalent to Pocono Formation of Ridge and Valley province.
Casselman Formation (Pennsylvanian): Casselman Formation - Cyclic sequences of shale, siltstone, sandstone, red beds, thin, impure limestone, and thin, nonpersistent coal; red beds are associated with landslides; base is at top of Ames limestone.
Conemaugh Group (Pennsylvanian): Conemaugh Group - Includes, in descending order, the Casselman Formation (PAcc) and the Glenshaw Formation (PAcg), which are described separately below. Casselman: Cyclic sequences of shale, siltstone, sandstone, red beds, thin, impure limestone, and thin, nonpersistent coal; red beds are associated with landslides; base is at top of Ames limestone. Glenshaw: Cyclic sequences of shale, sandstone, red beds, and thin limestone and coal; includes four marine limestone or shale horizons; red beds are involved in landslides; base is at top of Upper Freeport coal.
Glenshaw Formation (Pennsylvanian): Glenshaw Formation - Cyclic sequences of shale, sandstone, red beds, and thin limestone and coal; includes four marine limestone or shale horizons; red beds are involved in landslides; base is at top of Upper Freeport coal.
Greene Formation (Permian): Greene Formation - Cyclic sequences of sandstone, shale, red beds, thin limestone, and thin, impure coal; base is at top of Upper Washington limestone.
Llewellyn Formation (Pennsylvanian): Llewellyn Formation - Gray, fine- to coarse-grained sandstone, siltstone, shale, conglomerate, and numerous anthracite coals in repetitive sequences.
Monongahela Group (Pennsylvanian): Monongahela Group - Cyclic sequences of limestone, shale, sandstone, and coal; commercial coals present; base is at bottom of Pittsburgh coal.
Pottsville Formation (Pennsylvanian): Pottsville Formation - Predominantly gray sandstone and conglomerate; also contains thin beds of shale, claystone, limestone, and coal; includes Olean and Sharon conglomerates of northwestern Pennsylvania; thin marine limestones present in Beaver, Lawrence, and Mercer Counties; minable coals and commercially valuable high-alumina clays present locally.
Pottsville Formation (Pennsylvanian): Pottsville Formation - Gray conglomerate, fine- to coarse-grained sandstone, and siltstone and shale containing minable anthracite coals. Includes three members, in descending order: Sharp Mountain--conglomerate and conglomeratic sandstone; Schuylkill--sandstone and conglomeratic sandstone; Tumbling Run--conglomeratic sandstone and sandstone.
Washington Formation (Permian): Washington Formation - Cyclic sequences of sandstone, shale, limestone, and coal; includes some red shale; base is at bottom of Washington coal.
Waynesburg Formation (Permian and Pennsylvanian): Waynesburg Formation - Cyclic sequences of sandstone, shale, limestone, and coal; commercial coals present; base is at bottom of Waynesburg coal.

Rhode Island

Narragansett Bay Group - Rhode Island Formation (Pennsylvanian): Narragansett Bay Group - Rhode Island Formation - In northern Rhode Island, consists of gray to black, fine- to coarse-grained quartz arenite, litharenite, shale, and conglomerate, with minor beds of anthracite and meta-anthracite. In southern Rhode Island, consists of meta-sandstone, meta-conglomerate, schist, carbonaceous schist, and graphite. Plant fossils are common.

South Dakota

Inyan Kara Group (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Early ): Includes: Fall River Formation- Variegated brown, red, gray to purple, calcareous, well-sorted, fine-grained sandstone, siltstone, and shale containing mica flakes. Thickness 100-200 ft (30-61 m). Lakota Formation- Yellow, brown, red-brown, gray to black silty shale, pebble conglomerate, and massive to thin-bedded, cross-bedded sandstone. Locally interbedded with fresh-water limestone and bituminous coal beds. Thickness 35-500 ft (11-152 m).
Tongue River Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene ): White, gray, and tan, massive, cross-bedded sandstone with interbedded gray, brown, and green claystone, bentonitic claystone, clayely siltstone, carbonate concretions, and lignite. Thickness up to 285 ft (87 m).

Tennessee

Crab Orchard Mounatins and Gizzard Group (Pennsylvanian): Crab Orchard Mountains and Gizzard Groups - Sandstone, conglomerate, siltstone, shale, and thin coal beds. From top down Crab Orchard Mountains group includes Rockcastle Conglomerate, Vadever Formation, Newton Sandstone, Whitwell Shale, and Sewanee Conglomerate; Gizzard Group includes Signal Point Shale, Warren Point Sandstone, and Raccoon Mountain Formation. Thickness about 1,200 to 1,400 feet.
Crab Orchard Mountains and Gizzard Groups (Pennsylvanian): Crab Orchard Mountains and Gizzard Groups - Sandstone, conglomerate, siltstone, shale, and thin coal beds. Thickness 1,200 to 1,400 feet.
Crab Orchard Mountains Group, including Rockcastle Conglomerate, Vandever Formation, Newton Sandstone, Whitwell Shale, and Sewanee Conglomerate (Pennsylvanian): Crab Orchard Mountains Group - Conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone, shale, and coal; from top of Rockcastle Conglomerate to base of Sewanee Conglomerate. Thickness 200 to 950 feet; including Rockcastle Conglomerate - Conglomeratic sandstone and sandstone, gray to brown, fine- to coarse-grained. Thin coal-bearing shale locally present near middle. Thickness 150 to 220 feet; Vandever Formation - Mostly shale and siltstone, dark-gray to light-brown; conglomerate or sandstone in middle to south. Lantana and Morgan Springs coals near base and top. Thickness as much as 450 feet, average about 300 feet; Newton Sandstone - Sandstone, gray to brown or pink, fine- to medium-grained, locally conglomeratic. Thickness as much as 200 feet; average about 90 feet; Whitwell Shale - Mostly dark-gray to light-brown shale, with minor siltstone; locally middle part is sandstone. Richland coal near base; Sewanee coal in upper part. Thickness as much as 220 feet, average about 75 feet; Sewanee Conglomerate - Conglomeratic sandstone and sandstone, gray to brown, fine- to coarse-grained. Thickness as much as 200 feet, average about 100 feet.
Crooked Fork Group (Pennsylvanian): Crooked Fork Group - Shale, sandstone, siltstone, and thin coal beds; from top down group includes Poplar Creek coal, Wartburg Sandstone, Glenmary Shale, Coalfield Sandstone, Burnt Mill Shale, Crossville Sandstone, and Dorton Shale. Thickness 200 to 450 feet.
Crooked Fork Group, including Wartburg Sandstone, Glenmary Shale, Coalfield Sandstone, Burnt Mill Shale, Crossville Sandstone, Dorton Shale (Pennsylvanian): Crooked Fork Group - Shale, sandstone, conglomerate, siltstone, and coal; from Poplar Creek coal to top of Rockcastle Conglomerate. Thickness 320 to 455 feet; Wartburg Sandstone - Sandstone, gray to brown, fine- to medium-grained, locally conglomeratic. Poplar Creek coal and thin shale at top. Thickness 0 to 50 feet; Glenmary Shale - Mostly dark-gray to light-brown shale with minor siltstone and sandstone. Thin coal near base locally. Thickness 50 to 150 feet; Coalfield Sandstone - Sandstone, gray to brown, fine- to medium-grained. Thickness 0 to 80 feet; Burnt Mill Shale - Mostly dark-gray to light-brown shale, with minor siltstone. Thin sandstone locally present near base. Hooper coal just above base. Thickness as much as 110 feet; Crossville Sandstone - Sandstone, gray to brown or pink, fine- to medium-grained, thinly and evenly bedded. Thickness 30 to 70 feet; Dorton Shale - Mostly dark-gray to light-brown shale, with minor siltstone and sandstone. Thin coal near top. Rex coal as much as 70 feet above base. Thickness as much as 150 feet.
Cross Mountain Formation (Pennsylvanian): Cross Mountain Formation - Mostly shale, interbedded with sandstone, siltstone, and thin coal beds; base at top of Frozen Head Sandstone. Maximum preserved thickness 554 feet.
Cross Mountain Formation (Pennsylvanian): Cross Mountain Formation - Mostly shale, interbedded with sandstone, siltstone, and thin coal beds; base at top of Frozen Head Sandstone. Maximum preserved thickness 270 feet.
Fentress Formation (Pennsylvanian): Fentress Formation - Mostly dark-gray to light-brown shale, with minor siltstone and sandstone. Wilder coal near middle. Laterally equivalent to entire Gizzard Group and all of Crab Orchard Mountains Group below Rockcastle Conglomerate. Thickness as much as 340 feet.
Gizzard Group including Warren Point Sandstone and Raccoon Mountain Formation (Pennsylvanian): Gizzard Group - Sandstone, conglomeratic sandstone, siltstone, shale, and minor coal. Thickness 100 to 200 feet. Includes Warren Point Sandstone - Gray to brown sandstone and minor conglomeratic sandstone. Thickness 60 to 160 feet; Raccoon Mountain Formation - Siltstone, sandstone, shale, and minor coal. Thickness 0 to 65 feet.
Graves Gap Formation (Pennsylvanian): Graves Gap Formation - Shale, sandstone, siltstone, and coal; from Windrock coal to top of Pioneer Sandstone. Thickness 275 to 385 feet.
Graves Gap Formation (Pennsylvanian): Graves Gap Formation - Shale, sandstone, siltstone, and coal; from Windrock coal to top of Pioneer Sandstone. Thickness 200 to 350 feet.
Indian Bluff Formation (Pennsylvanian): Indian Bluff Formation - Shale, sandstone, siltstone, and thin coal beds; from Pioneer Sandstone Member to Jellico coal. Thickness 150 to 415 feet.
Indian Bluff Formation (Pennsylvanian): Indian Bluff Formation - Shale, sandstone, siltstone, and thin coal beds; from Pioneer Sandstone Member to Jellico coal. Thickness 150 to 250 feet.
Redoak Mountain Formation (Pennsylvanian): Redoak Mountain Formation - Shale, sandstone, siltstone, and several important coals; from Pewee coal to Windrock coal. Thickness 340 to 420 feet.
Redoak Mountain Formation (Pennsylvanian): Redoak Mountain Formation - Shale, sandstone, silicastone, and several important coals; from Pewee coal to Windrock coal. Thickness 340 to 420 feet.
Rockcastle Conglomerate (Pennsylvanian): Rockcastle Conglomerate - Conglomeratic sandstone and sandstone, gray to brown, fine- to coarse-grained. Thin coal-bearing shale locally present near middle. Thickness 150 to 220 feet.
Slatestone Formation (Pennsylvanian): Slatestone Formation - Shale, sandstone, siltstone, and several important coals; from Jellico coal to Poplar Creek coal. Thickness 500 to 720 feet.
Slatestone Formation (Pennsylvanian): Slatestone Formation - Shale, sandstone, siltstone, and several important coals; from Jellico coal to Poplar Creek coal. Thickness 500 to 650 feet.
Vowell Mountain Formation (Pennsylvanian): Vowell Mountain Formation - Shale, sandstone, siltstone, and coal; from Frozen Head Sandstone Member to Pewee coal. Thickness 230 to 375 feet.
Vowell Mountain Formation (Pennsylvanian): Vowell Mountain Formation - Shale, sandstone, siltstone, and coal; from Frozen Head Sandstone Member to Pewee coal. Thickness 300 to 375 feet.

Texas

Aguja Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): Aguja Formation
Calvert Bluff Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene Eocene): Calvert Bluff Formation
Cook Mountain Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene): Cook Mountain Formation
Dakota and Purgatoir Formations, undivided (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Early): Dakota and Purgatoir Formations, undivided
Dakota Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Early Cretaceous-Late): Dakota Formation
Eagle Ford Formation and Woodbine Formations, undivided (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late [Gulfian]): Eagle Ford Formation and Woodbine Formations, undivided
El Picacho Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): El Picacho Formation
El Pico Clay (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene): El Pico Clay
Hannold Hill Member of Tornillo Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene): Hannold Hill Member of Tornillo Formation
Indio Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene Eocene): Indio Formation
Manning Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene): Manning Formation
Markley Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian Permian): Markley Formation
Mingus Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian [Des Moines]): Mingus Formation
Olmos Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late [Gulfian]): Olmos Formation
Palo Pinto and Mineral Wells Formations, undivided (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Late [Missouri]): Palo Pinto and Mineral Wells Formations, undivided NOTE: This unit is represented within the map unit explanation of (Geol. Map of Texas, 1992, Bur. Econ. Geol.) but does not occur on the map and is NOT included in the spatial data.
Reklaw Formation, Carrizo Sand, and Wilcox and Midway Groups, undivided (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene Eocene): Reklaw Formation, Carrizo Sand, and Wilcox and Midway Groups, undivided
San Carlos Sandstone (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): San Carlos Sandstone
Sparta Sand (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene): Sparta Sand
Strawn Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle [Atoka Des Moines]): Strawn Group
Wellborn Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene): Wellborn Formation
Wilcox Group, undivided (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene Eocene): Wilcox Group, undivided
Woodbine Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late [Gulfian]): Woodbine Formation
Yegua Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene-Middle): Yegua Formation

Utah

Cretaceous (1) sedimentary rocks in southwestern Utah (Late Cretaceous)
Cretaceous (2) sedimentary rocks in central Utah (Cretaceous)
Cretaceous (2) sedimentary rocks in southwestern Utah (Late Cretaceous)
Cretaceous (3) sedimentary rocks in southeastern Utah (Late Cretaceous)
Cretaceous (3) sedimentary rocks in Uinta Mountains-Uinta Basin region (Late Cretaceous)
Cretaceous and Tertiary sedimentary rocks in Logan-Huntsville Allochthon (Late Cretaceous to Paleocene)
Cretaceous and Tertiary sedimentary rocks in Salt Lake City-Coalville-Randolph region (Late Cretaceous to Paleocene)
Cretaceous and Tertiary sedimentary rocks in Uinta Mountains-Uinta Basin region (Late Cretaceous to Paleocene)
Mississippian (3) sedimentary rocks in Uinta Mountains-Uinta Basin region (Mississippian)
Tertiary (1) sedimentary rocks in Uinta Mountains-Unita Basin region (Early to Middle Eocene)

Virginia

Bluefield Formation (Mississippian): Bluefield Formation - Calcareous shale and limestone.
Harlan Sandstone (Pennsylvanian): Harlan Sandstone - Sandstone, siltstone, shale, and coal.
Kanawha Formation (Pennsylvanian): Kanawha Formation - Sandstone, siltstone, shale, and coal.
Lee Formation (Pennsylvanian): Lee Formation - Quartzarenite, sandstone, conglomerate, shale, siltstone, and coal.
Lee Formation (Pennsylvanian - Mississippian): Lee Formation - Quartzarenite, sandstone, conglomerate, shale, siltstone, and coal.
Maccrady Shale and Price Formation (Mississippian): Maccrady Shale and Price Formation - Includes: Maccrady Shale: Dusky-red and green shale and mudstone; and evaporite deposits. Price Formation: Sandstone, conglomeratic sandstone, and shale with carbonaceous partings and impure coal beds.
Mississippian Formations Undivided (Mississippian): Mississippian Formations Undivided - Includes Pennington Group, Bluefield Formation, Greenbrier Limestone, Maccrady Shale and Price Formation; Includes Newman Limestone, Fort Payne Chert, and Grainger Formation in western Lee County
Newark Supergroup; Triassic Sandstone, Siltstone, Shale, and Coal (Triassic): Interbedded sandstone, siltstone, shale and coal
New River Formation (Pennsylvanian): New River Formation - Sandstone, siltstone, shale, and coal.
Norton Formation (Pennsylvanian): Norton Formation - Shale, siltstone, sandstone, and coal.
Norton, New River, Lee and Pocahontas Formations Undivided (Pennsylvanian): Norton, New River, Lee and Pocahontas Formations Undivided - Norton Formation: siltstone, shale, sandstone, and coal. New River Formation: Sandstone siltstone, shale, coal. Pocahontas Formation: Sandstone, siltstone, shale, and coal. Lee Formation: Quart
Pocahontas Formation (Pennsylvanian): Pocahontas Formation - Sandstone, siltstone, shale, and coal.
Pocono Formation (Mississippian): Pocono Formation - Sandstone, conglomeratic sandstone, and shale with carbonaceous partings and impure coal beds.
Price Formation (Mississippian): Price Formation - Sandstone, conglomeratic sandstone, and shale with carbonaceous partings and impure coal beds.
Wise Formation (Pennsylvanian): Wise Formation - Sandstone, shale, siltstone, and coal; quartzarenite.
Wise Formation and Gladeville Sandstone (Pennsylvanian): Wise Formation and Gladeville Sandstone - Sandstone, shale, siltstone, and coal; quartzarenite.

Washington

Cretaceous sedimentary rocks, mostly marine (Late Cretaceous; possibly Eocene): Cretaceous conglomerate, sandstone, shale, breccia, limestone, and gritstone in San Juan Islands.
Eocene nonmarine rocks (Eocene): Predominantly sandstone and shale. Includes some conglomerate in the Cle Elum area in Kittilas County. Contains extensive coal seams near Roslyn and carbonaceous shale and coal beds in White Pass area. Contains tuff beds in northwestern Ferry County.
Lower upper Eocene marine and nonmarine rocks (Eocene): Predominantly massive to well-bedded tuffaceous marine siltstone with interbedded arkosic and basaltic sandstone. Includes conglomerate in King County and along north side of Olympic Peninsula. Minor lava flows and breccia in western Lewis County and eastern Grays Harbor County. Coal seams in central Lewis County and north-central Pierce County.
Mesozoic-Tertiary marine rocks, undivided (Miocene to Eocene): Dark-gray, massive to poorly bedded gray-wacke of the interior Olympic Peninsula; commonly with interbedded slate, argillite, volcanic rocks, and minor arkosic sandstone. Includes rocks both older and younger than Ev2, some of which may be Paleozoic.
Oligocene nonmarine rocks (Oligocene): Andesite conglomerate, tuff beds, and mudflow material. Includes some interbedded andesite flows in Columbia River Gorge. Lake sediments with Oligocene flora in Republic area in Ferry County. Massive tuffaceous sandstone and siltstone with beds of coal and high-alumina clay in Castle Rock-Toledo coal district in Cowlitz and Lewis Counties; include local interbedded basalt flows and some marine and late Eocene rocks.
Paleocene-Cretaceous nonmarine rocks (Eocene (see age coding)): Brown-gray to light-gray, medium- to course-grained massive cross-bedded arkose with interbedded conglomerate and siltstone. Contains several coal seams in Whatcom County. Iron-rich laterite at base near Cle Elum and Blewett Pass in Kittitas and Chelan Counties.
Upper Eocene volcanic rocks (Late-Middle Eocene): Rhyolite flows and some interbedded tuff beds in Cle Elum area, Kittitas County.
Upper upper Eocene nonmarine and marine rocks (Middle Eocene): Massive to thin-bedded, feldspathic to arkosic sandstone, siltstone, shale, and carbonaceous shale; becomes mostly marine in the western foothills of Cascade Mountains where coal beds are abundant. Basaltic sandstone and siltstone in northern Olympic Peninsula.

West Virginia

Allegheny Formation (Pennsylvanian): Allegheny Formation - cyclic sequences of sandstone, siltstone, shale, limestone, and coal. Includes the Freeport, Kittanning and Clarion coals, also, the Princess coals of Kentucky . Extends from the top of the Upper Freeport coal to the top of the Homewood Sandstone.
Conemaugh Group (Pennsylvanian): Conemaugh Group - cyclic sequences of red and gray shale, siltstone, and sandstone, with thin limestones and coals. Mostly non-marine. May be divided into Casselman and Glenshaw Formations. Extends from the base of the Pittsburgh coal to the top of the Upper Freeport coal. Includes the Elk Lick, Bakerstown, and Mahoning coals, and the Ames and Brush Creek Limestones.
Dunkard Group (Permian/Pennsylvanian): Dunkard Group - non-marine cyclic sequences of sandstone, siltstone, red and gray shale, limestone, and coal. Contains the Greene, Washington and Waynesburg Formations. Extends from the top of the exposed bed rock section to the top of the Waynesburg coal. Includes the Washington coals and limestones. Palynological evidence favors a Pennsylvanian age, at least for the lower portion.
Kanawha Formation (Pennsylvanian): Kanawha Formation (part of Pottsville Group) - sandstone (approx 50%), shale, siltstone, and coal. Contains several marine zones. Becomes more shaly westward in the subsurface. Extends from the top of the Homewood Sandstone to the top of the Upper Nuttall Sandstone. Includes the Stockton (Mercer), Coalburg, Winifrede, Chilton, Williamson, Cedar Grove, Alma, Peerless, Campbell Creek, Powellton, Eagle, Gilbert, and Douglas coals.
Monongahela Group (Pennsylvanian): Monongahela Group - non-marine cyclic sequences of sandstone, siltstone, red and gray shale, limestone, and coal. Contains the Uniontown and Pittsburgh Formations. Extends from the top of the Waynesburg coal to the base of the Pittsburgh coal. Includes the Waynesburg, Uniontown, Sewickley, Redstone and Pittsburgh coals. Thickness is 170 feet in Mineral and Grant Counties.
New River Formation (Pennsylvanian): New River Formation (part of Pottsville Group) - predominantly sandstone, with some shale, siltstone, and coal. Grades to nearly all sandstone in the subsurface. Extends from the top of the Upper Nuttall Sandstone to the top of the Flattop Mountain Sandstone. Includes the Iaeger, Sewell, Welch, Raleigh, Beckley, Fire Creek, and Pocahontas Nos. 8 and 9 coals.
Pocahontas Formation (Pennsylvanian): Pocahontas Formation (part of Pottsville Group) - sandstone, approx. 50%, with some shale, siltstone, and coal. Extends from the top of the Flattop Mountain Sandstone to the top of the Mississippian. Includes from bottom upward Pocahontas coals Nos. 1 through 7.
Pottsville Group (Pennsylvanian): Pottsville Group - includes the Kanawha, New River, and Pocahontas Formations. Predominantly sandstones, some of which are conglomeratic, with thin shales and coals. Undivided in northern West Virginia.

Wyoming

Adaville Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): ADAVILLE FORMATION--Gray sandstone, siltstone, and carbonaceous claystone; conglomeratic in upper part; coal-bearing in lower part.
Bacon Ridge Sandstone (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): BACON RIDGE SANDSTONE--Gray to tan marine sandstone and thick coal beds; gold-bearing quartzite conglomerate in lower part.
Blind Bull Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): BLIND BULL FORMATION--Gray to tan conglomeratic sandstone, siltstone, claystone, coal, and bentonite.
Devils Basin Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene ): DEVILS BASIN FORMATION--Light-gray sandstone interbedded with green and gray claystone; sparse coal and carbonaceous shale.
Evanston Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic Cenozoic | Cretaceous-Late Tertiary | Paleocene): EVANSTON FORMATION--Gray siltstone, sparse red sandstone, and lignite beds.
Ferris Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic Cenozoic | Cretaceous-Late Tertiary | Paleocene): FERRIS FORMATION--Brown and gray sandstone and shale; sparse carbonaceous shale and coal beds; thin lenses of pebble conglomerate.
Fort Union Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene ): FORT UNION FORMATION Tongue River Member--Thick beds of yellow sandstone interbedded with gray and black shale and many coal beds.
Fort Union Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene ): FORT UNION FORMATION Tongue River (Tftr) and Lebo (Tfl) Members.
Fort Union Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene ): FORT UNION FORMATION northwest, southwest, and central Wyoming--Brown to gray sandstone, gray to black shale, and thin coal beds; east Wyoming--Light-colored massive sandstone, drab shale, and thick coal beds.
Fort Union Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene ): FORT UNION FORMATION Lebo (Tfl) and Tullock (Fft) Members.
Fort Union Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene ): FORT UNION FORMATION Tullock Member--Soft gray sandstone, gray and brown carbonaceous shale, and thin coal beds.
Frontier Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): FRONTIER FORMATION in thrust belt--White to brown sandstone and dark-gray shale; oyster coquina in upper part; coal and lignite in lower part; in north and south Wyoming--Gray sandstone and sandy shale.
Green River and Wasatch Formations (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene): GREEN RIVER AND WASATCH FORMATIONS -- in Thrust Belt: GREEN RIVER FORMATION--Buff laminated marlstone and limestone, brown oil shale, and siltstone. Includes Angelo and Fossil Butte Members. WASATCH FORMATION--Variegated mudstone and sandstone. Includes Tunp and Bullpen Members, other tongues and unnamed members, and main body (variegated red to gray, brown, and gray mudstone and sandstone; conglomerate lenses); in southwest Wyoming -- GREEN RIVER FORMATION--Oil shale, light-colored tuffaceous marlstone, and sandstone. WASATCH FORMATION--Drab to variegated claystone and siltstone, carbonaceous shale and coal, buff sandstone, arkose, and conglomerate. In northwestern part of Green River Basin is thick arkosic light-yellowish-tan sandstone intertonguing with pale-green to gray claystone and shale.
Hanna Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene ): HANNA FORMATION--Brown and gray sandstone, shale, conglomerate, and coal; giant quartzite boulders near Medicine Bow Mountains.
Lance Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): LANCE FORMATION north Wyoming--Thick-bedded buff sandstone and drab to green shale; thin conglomerate lenses; south and northeast Wyoming--Brown and gray sandstone and shale; thin coal and carbonaceous shale beds.
Lance Formation, Fox Hills Sandstone, Meeteetse Formation, Bearpaw and Lewis Shales (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): LANCE FORMATION (Kl north), FOX HILLS SANDSTONE (Kfh), MEETEETSE FORMATION (Km), AND BEARPAW AND LEWIS (Kle) SHALES--In the Bighorn Basin consists of Lance, Meeteetse and, in the southeastern part, tongue of Lewis Shale; in the northern part of the Wind River Basin, of Lance, Meeteetse, and Lewis, and, in the southeastern part of the basin, of Lance and Lewis; on the west side of the Powder River Basin north of T. 45 N., of Lance, Fox Hills, and Bearpaw, and, to the south, of Lance, Fox Hills, and Lewis. LANCE FORMATION--Thick-bedded buff sandstone and drab to green shale; thin conglomerate lenses. FOX HILLS SANDSTONE--Light-colored sandstone and gray sandy shale containing marine fossils. MEETEETSE FORMATION (AGE ABOUT 73 Ma)--Chalky-white to gray sandstone, yellow, green, and dark-gray bentonitic claystone, white tuff, and thin coal beds. BEARPAW SHALE--Dark-greenish-gray shale containing thin gray sandstone partings. LEWIS SHALE (AGE ABOUT 68 Ma)--Gray marine shale containing many gray and brown lenticular concretion-rich sandstone beds.
Medicine Bow Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): MEDICINE BOW FORMATION--Brown and gray sandstone and shale; thin coal and carbonaceous shale beds.
Meeteetse Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): MEETEETSE FORMATION (AGE ABOUT 73 Ma)--Chalky-white to gray sandstone, yellow, green, and dark-gray bentonitic claystone, white tuff, and thin coal beds.
Meeteetse Formation and Lewis Shale (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): MEETEETSE FORMATION AND LEWIS SHALE. MEETEETSE FORMATION (AGE ABOUT 73 Ma) (Km)--Chalky-white to gray sandstone, yellow, green, and dark-gray bentonitic claystone, white tuff, and thin coal beds. LEWIS SHALE (AGE ABOUT 68 Ma) (Kle)--Gray marine shale containing many gray and brown lenticular concretion-rich sandstone beds.
Mesaverde Formation (N) or Mesaverde Group (S) (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): MESAVERDE FORMATION (north Wyoming)--Light-colored massive to thin-bedded sandstone, gray sandy shale, and coal beds. In Jackson Hole locally contains gold-bearing quartzite conglomerate. North of North Fork Powder River east of the Bighorn Mountains, consists solely of the Parkman Sandstone Member; MESAVERDE GROUP (SOUTH WYOMING). Includes Almond Formation, Ericson Sandstone, Rock Springs and Blair Formations in Rock Springs uplift; Almond Formation (white and brown soft sandstone, gray sandy shale, coal and carbonaceous shale), Pine Ridge Sandstone (light-gray sandstone and thin coal beds), and Allen Ridge (gray sandstone, shale, and thin coal beds) and Haystack Mountains (gray marine sandstone and shale) Formations in Rawlins uplift; Pine Ridge Sandstone (light-gray sandstone and thin coal beds) and Rock River Formation (soft sandstone and sandy shale) in Laramie Basin.
Mesaverde Group, Almond Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): MESAVERDE GROUP (SOUTH WYOMING). Rock Springs uplift. Almond Formation--White and brown soft sandstone, gray sandy shale, coal, and carbonaceous shale.
Mesaverde Group, Rock Springs Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): MESAVERDE GROUP (SOUTH WYOMING). Rock Springs uplift. Rock Springs Formation--White to brown sandstone, shale, and claystone; numerous coal beds.
Newcastle Sandstone and Skull Creek Shale (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Early): NEWCASTLE SANDSTONE AND SKULL CREEK SHALE. NEWCASTLE SANDSTONE--Gray sandstone and sandy shale containing some bentonite and coal. SKULL CREEK SHALE--Black soft fissile shale.
Sage Junction, Quealy, Cokeville, THomas Fork, and Smiths Formations (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Early): SAGE JUNCTION, QUEALY, COKEVILLE, THOMAS FORK, AND SMITHS FORMATIONS. SAGE JUNCTION FORMATION--Gray and tan siltstone and sandstone. QUEALY FORMATION--Variegated mudstone and tan sandstone. COKEVILLE FORMATION--Tan sandstone, claystone, limestone, bentonite, and coal. THOMAS FORK FORMATION--Variegated mudstone and gray sandstone. SMITHS FORMATION--Ferruginous black shale and tan to brown sandstone.
Sohare Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): SOHARE FORMATION--Lenticular gray and brown sandstone and shale; thin coal beds.
Sohare Formation and Bacon Ridge Sandstone (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late): SOHARE FORMATION AND BACON RIDGE SANDSTONE. SOHARE FORMATION (Kso)--Lenticular gray and brown sandstone and shale; thin coal beds. BACON RIDGE SANDSTONE (Kb)--Gray to tan marine sandstone and thick coal beds; gold-bearing quartzite conglomerate in lower part.
Tatman Formatin (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene): TATMAN FORMATION--Drab nontuffaceous claystone, oil shale, lignite, and sandstone.
Transitional unit between Battle Spring and Wasatch Formations (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene): TRANSITIONAL UNIT BETWEEN BATTLE SPRING AND WASATCH FORMATIONS--Contains interbedded lithologies of Battle Spring (Tbs) and Wasatch (Tw2) Formations.
Wasatch Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene): WASATCH FORMATION -- in Thrust belt: Main body--Variegated red to gray, brown, and gray mudstone and sandstone; conglomeratic lenses; in southwest Wyoming--Drab to variegated claystone and siltstone, carbonaceous shale and coal, buff sandstone, arkose, and conglomerate. In northwestern part of Green River Basin is thick arkosic light-yellowish-tan sandstone intertonguing with pale-green to gray claystone and shale; in east Wyoming--Drab sandstone and drab to variegated claystone; numerous coal beds in lower part.
Wasatch Formation (SW) (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene): WASATCH FORMATION Niland Tongue--Brown sandstone, carbonaceous shale, and coal.
Wind River Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene): WIND RIVER FORMATION Northwest Wyoming (Jackson Hole)--Variegated red and white claystone and siltstone; largely nontuffaceous except near the top; lenticular coal unit in middle. At base locally includes equivalent of Indian Meadows Formation; Central Wyoming--Variegated claystone and sandstone; lenticular conglomerate. Age of tuff at top 49 Ma.