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Geologic units containing dolostone (dolomite)

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Dolostone

A carbonate sedimentary rock of which more than 50% by weight or by areal percentages under the microscope consists of the mineral dolomite.

This category is also used for dolomite and dolostone (dolomite).

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Alabama

Attalla Chert Conglomerate Member of the Chickamauga Limestone (Ordovician): Attalla Chert Conglomerate Member of the Chickamauga Limestone - conglomerate of pebbles, cobbles, and boulders of chert and rare dolomite and quartzite in a sand-sized chert and quartz matrix; thin beds of gray-green or dusky-red shale common at base.
Attalla Chert Conglomerate Member of the Chickamauga Limestone (Ordovician): Attalla Chert Conglomerate Member of the Chickamauga Limestone - conglomerate of pebbles, cobbles, and boulders of chert and rare dolomite and quartzite in a sand-sized chert and quartz matrix; thin beds of gray-green or dusky-red shale common at base.
Bangor and Monteagle Limestones undivided in part (Mississippian): Bangor and Monteagle Limestones undivided in part - Bangor Limestone -- medium-gray bioclastic and oolitic limestone, containing interbeds of dusky-red and olive-green mudstone in upper part. Monteagle Limestone -- light-gray oolitic limestone containing interbedded argillaceous, bioclastic, or dolomitic limestone, dolomite, and medium-gray shale.
Bibb Dolomite (Cambrian): Bibb Dolomite - dark-gray thick-bedded siliceous dolomite; characterized by locally abundant chert containing irregular cavities.
Brierfield Dolomite (Cambrian): Brierfield Dolomite - medium to dark-bluish-gray thick-bedded siliceous dolomite; characterized by locally abundant chert with irregular cavities.
Chattanooga Shale and Frog Mountain Sandstone undifferentiated (Devonian): Chattanooga Shale and Frog Mountain Sandstone undifferentiated (In areas mapped as Dcfm one or both units may be locally absent) - Chattanooga Shale -- Brownish-black organic shale containing light to dark-gray sandstone and rare limestone interbeds near the base. Frog Mountain Sandstone -- light to dark-gray sandstone with thin dark-gray shale interbeds, light-gray to black dolomudstone, glauconitic limestone, and fossiliferous chert locally in lower part.
Chepultepec and Copper Ridge Dolomites undifferentiated (Ordovician-Cambrian): Chepultepec and Copper Ridge Dolomites undifferentiated - Light-gray to dark-bluish-gray thick-bedded dolomite and interbedded light-gray limestone; includes abundant chert.
Chepultepec and Copper Ridge Dolomites undifferentiated (Ordovician-Cambrian): Chepultepec and Copper Ridge Dolomites undifferentiated - Light-gray to dark-bluish-gray thick-bedded dolomite and interbedded light-gray limestone; includes abundant chert.
Chepultepec and Copper Ridge Dolomites undifferentiated (Ordovician-Cambrian): Chepultepec and Copper Ridge Dolomites undifferentiated - Light-gray to dark-bluish-gray thick-bedded dolomite and interbedded light-gray limestone; includes abundant chert.
Chickamauga Limestone (Ordovician): Chickamauga Limestone - Medium to dark-gray thick to thin-bedded partly argillaceous, locally fossiliferous limestone. Restricted to the western part of the Valley and Ridge province and Murphrees Valley and Wills Valley anticlines. Locally includes a thin interval of Attalla Chert Conglomerate Member at base. Attalla Chert Conglomerate - conglomerate of pebbles, cobbles, and boulders of chert and rare dolomite and quartzite in a sand-sized matrix; thin beds of gray-green or dusky-red shale common at base.
Chickamauga Limestone (Ordovician): Chickamauga Limestone - Medium to dark-gray thick to thin-bedded partly argillaceous, locally fossiliferous limestone. Restricted to the western part of the Valley and Ridge province and Murphrees Valley and Wills Valley anticlines. Locally includes a thin interval of Attalla Chert Conglomerate Member at base. Attalla Chert Conglomerate - conglomerate of pebbles, cobbles, and boulders of chert and rare dolomite and quartzite in a sand-sized matrix; thin beds of gray-green or dusky-red shale common at base.
Conasauga Formation (Cambrian): Conasauga Formation - light to dark-gray finely to coarsely crystalline, medium to thick-bedded dolomite containing minor greenish-gray shale and light-bluish-gray chert. In the Columbiana area of Shelby County, the Conasauga is dominated by thin to medium-bedded, dark-gray dolomitic limestone and minor dark-gray shale. In Bibb County and southwestern Shelby County, the Conasauga consists of medium-bluish-gray fine-grained, thin-bedded argillaceous limestone and interbedded dark-gray shale. In the eastern Valley and Ridge the lower part includes dark-green to pale-olive fossiliferous shale with a few dark-gray limestone interbeds.
Copper Ridge Dolomite (Cambrian): Copper Ridge Dolomite - light-gray finely to coarsely crystalline, thick-bedded siliceous dolomite; characterized by abundant stromatolitic chert. Mapped seperately only in the Birmingham anticlinorium where overlying units within the Knox Group are absent beneath the post-Knox unconformity.
Ketona Dolomite (Cambrian): Ketona Dolomite - Light to medium-gray thick-bedded coarsely crystalline dolomite.
Ketona Dolomite (Cambrian): Ketona Dolomite - light to medium-gray thick-bedded coarsely crystalline dolomite.
Knox Group undifferentiated (Ordovician-Cambrian): Knox Group undifferentiated - Light-gray to light-brown locally sandy dolomite, dolomitic limestone, and limestone; characterized by abundant light-colored chert.
Knox Group undifferentiated in part (Ordovician-Cambrian): Knox Group undifferentiated in part - light-gray to light-brown locally sandy dolomite, dolomitic limestone, and limestone; characterized by abundant light-colored chert.
Little Oak and Newala Limestones undifferentiated (Ordovician): Little Oak and Newala Limestones undifferentiated - Little Oak Limestone -- dark-gray medium to thick-bedded fossiliferous, argillaceous to silty limestone containing chert nodules. Locally includes thin beds of bentonite in the upper part. Newala Limestone -- light to dark-gray thick-bedded micritic and peloidal limestone and minor dolomite.
Longview Limestone (Ordovician): Longview Limestone - light to medium-gray thick-bedded cherty limestone and dolomite, locally sandy.
Monteagle Limestone (Mississippian): Monteagle Limestone - Light-gray oolitic limestone containing interbedded argillaceous, bioclastic, or dolomitic limestone, dolomite, and medium-gray shale.
Monteagle Limestone (Mississippian): Monteagle Limestone - Light-gray oolitic limestone containing interbedded argillaceous, bioclastic, or dolomitic limestone, dolomite, and medium-gray shale.
Monteagle Limestone (Mississippian): Monteagle Limestone - Light-gray oolitic limestone containing interbedded argillaceous, bioclastic, or dolomitic limestone, dolomite, and medium-gray shale.
Newala and Longview Limestones undifferentiated (Ordovician): Newala and Longview Limestones undifferentiated - light to dark-grey thick-bedded limestone and dolomite, cherty in part.
Newala Limestone (Ordovician): Newala Limestone - light to dark-gray thick-bedded micritic and peloidal limestone and minor dolomite.
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.
Rome Formation (Cambrian): Rome Formation - variegated thinly interbedded mudstone, shale, siltstone, and sandstone; limestone and dolomite occur locally. Quartzose sandstone commonly present near top of formation.
Sequatchie Formation (Ordovician): Sequatchie Formation - dusky-red to light-olive-gray siltstone, sandstone, shale, and dolomite, regular but uneven bedding.
Sequatchie Formation, Colvin Mountain Sandstone, Greensport Formation undifferentiated (Ordovician): Sequatchie Formation, Colvin Mountain Sandstone, Greensport Formation undifferentiated - variegated dusky-red and pale-yellowish-orange shale, calcareous mudstone, dolomite, siltstone, and minor sandstone. Mapped in areas of facies transition with the Chickamauga Limestone (Canoe Creek, Dunaway, and Hensley Mountains).
Sequatchie Formation, Colvin Mountain Sandstone, Greensport Formation undifferentiated (Ordovician): Sequatchie Formation, Colvin Mountain Sandstone, Greensport Formation undifferentiated - variegated dusky-red and pale-yellowish-orange shale, calcareous mudstone, dolomite, siltstone, and minor sandstone. Mapped in areas of facies transition with the Chickamauga Limestone (Scraper Mountain) and in the structurally complex area at the east end of Dry Creek Mountain.
Shady Dolomite (Cambrian): Shady Dolomite - bluish-gray or pale-yellowish-gray thick-bedded siliceous dolomite; characterized by coarsely crystalline porous chert.
Silurian System undivided (Includes Wayne Group and Brassfield Limestone) (Silurian): Silurian System undivided (Includes Wayne Group and Brassfield Limestone) - Wayne Group - medium-gray, greenish-gray, and moderate-red argillaceous limestone; moderate-red and greenish-gray shale; and grayish-green fossiliferous limestone with scattered pink calcite crystals. Brassfield Limestone - greenish-gray to light-brownish-gray argillaceous, dolomitic, cherty, sandy, glauconitic limestone.
Sylacauga Marble Group; Jumbo Dolomite (Cambrian?-Ordovician?): Jumbo Dolomite - light to medium-gray thin to thick-bedded dolomite marble; contains intraclast-bearing dolomite, locally sandy in middle part.

Arkansas

Chattanooga Shale (Lower Mississippian and Upper Devonian), Clifty Limestone (Middle Devonian), and Penters Chert (Lower Devonian) (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Devonian-Early Devonian-Middle(?) Devonian-Late(?) Carboniferous Mississippian-Early): Chattanooga Shale (Lower Mississippian and Upper Devonian), Clifty Limestone (Middle Devonian), and Penters Chert (Lower Devonian)
Cotter and Jefferson City Dolomites (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Early): Cotter and Jefferson City Dolomites
Powell Dolomite (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Early): Powell Dolomite
St. Peter Sanstone and Everton Formation (Middle Ordovician) (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Middle): St. Peter Sanstone and Everton Formation (Middle Ordovician)

Arizona

Middle Proterozoic sedimentary rocks (Middle Proterozoic): Red-brown shale and sandstone, buff to orange quartzite, limestone, basalt, black shale, and sparse conglomerate. This unit includes the Grand Canyon Supergroup, Apache Group, and Troy Quartzite. These rocks were deposited in shallow marine, coastal nonmarine, and fluvial settings. (700-1300)
Mississippian, Devonian, and Cambrian sedimentary rocks (Cambrian, Devonian, and Mississippian): Brown to dark gray sandstone grades upward into green and gray shale, overlain by light to medium gray or tan limestone and dolostone. This unit includes the Tapeats Sandstone, Bright Angel Shale, Muav Limestone, Temple Butte Formation and Redwall Limestone in northern Arizona, and the Bolsa Quartzite, Abrigo Formation, Martin Formation, and Escabrosa Limestone in southern Arizona. These rocks record intermittent sea-level rise and inundation in early Paleozoic time. (330-540 Ma)
Moenkopi Formation (Early and Middle(?) Triassic): Dark red sandstone and mudstone; includes gypsum beds in northwestern Arizona; deposited on a low-relief coastal plain. (230-245 Ma)
Permian sedimentary rocks (Permian): Gray to tan, cherty limestone of Kaibab and Toroweap Formations, and underlying white to tan, fine-grained Coconino Sandstone. Limestone was deposited in a shallow sea, and sandstone was deposited in near-shore dunes and beach settings. (270-280 Ma)
Permian to Pennsylvanian sedimentary rocks (Pennsylvanian to Permian): Interbedded sandstone, shale, and limestone usually characterized by ledgy outcrops. Orange to reddish sandstone forms cliffs near Sedona. This unit includes Supai Group and Hermit Shale in northern Arizona and Naco Group in southern Arizona. It was deposited in coastal-plain to shallow-marine settings during time of variable and changing sea level. Rocks of this map unit in southern Arizona may be in part equivalent to Permian rocks of map unit P in central and northern Arizona. (280-310 Ma)
San Rafael Group (Middle to Late Jurassic): Commonly cross-bedded, ledge-forming sandstone and slope-forming siltstone. Rock typically has a striped red and white aspect. The Carmel Formation and Entrada Sandstone are prominent members of this group. (Late to Middle Jurassic, about 160-180 Ma)

California

Cambrian marine rocks (Late Proterozoic to Middle Devonian): Sandstone, shale, limestone, dolomite, chert, quartzite, and phyllite; includes some rocks that are possibly Precambrian
Carboniferous marine rocks, unit 1 (Western Mojave Desert) (Late Proterozoic to Pennsylvanian): Shale, sandstone, conglomerate, limestone, dolomite, chert, hornfels, marble, quartzite; in part pyroclastic rocks
Devonian marine rocks, unit 1 (Death Valley) (Middle to Late Devonian): Limestone and dolomite, sandstone and shale; in part tuffaceous
Limestone of probable Paleozoic or Mesozoic age (Paleozoic to Mesozoic): Limestone, dolomite, and marble whose age is uncertain but probably Paleozoic or Mesozoic
Miocene nonmarine rocks (Oligocene to Pleistocene): Sandstone, shale, conglomerate, and fanglomerate; in part Pliocene and Oligocene.
Paleozoic marine rocks, undivided, unit 1 (Mojave Desert and Death Valley area) (Late Proterozoic to Jurassic): Undivided Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks. Includes slate, sandstone, shale, chert, conglomerate, limestone, dolomite, marble, phyllite, schist, hornfels, and quartzite
Paleozoic marine rocks, undivided, unit 2 (Northern Mojave Desert and Southeastern Sierra Nevada) (Cambrian to Jurassic): Undivided Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks. Includes slate, sandstone, shale, chert, conglomerate, limestone, dolomite, marble, phyllite, schist, hornfels, and quartzite
Precambrian rocks, undivided, unit 1 (Death Valley) (Early Proterozoic to Mesozoic): Conglomerate, shale, sandstone, limestone, dolomite, marble, gneiss, hornfels, and quartzite; may be Paleozoic in part
Silurian and/or Ordovician marine rocks, unit 1 (Death Valley) (Ordovician to Early Devonian): Sandstone, shale, conglomerate, chert, slate, quartzite, hornfels, marble, dolomite, phyllite; some greenstone
Triassic marine rocks, unit 1 (Death Valley area and Mojave Desert) (Early to Middle Triassic): Shale, conglomerate, limestone and dolomite, sandstone, slate, hornfels, quartzite; minor pyroclastic rocks

Colorado

Leadville, Gilman, Dyer, Parting, and Sawatch Fms in west-central and south-central. Leadville Limestone, Ouray Limestone, Elbert Fm, and Ignacio Quartzite in far southwest (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Cambrian Ordovician(?) Silurian(?) Devonian(?) Carboniferous): Elbert Fm: shale and sandstone.
Leadville Limestone, Gilman Sandstone, Dyer Dolomite, and Parting Fm (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician Silurian(?) Devonian): Parting Fm: quartzite and shale.
Manitou Limestone and Sawatch Quartzite in Southern Front Range and Wet Mountains. One or more Ordovician Fms (Fremont Limestone, Harding Sandstone, and Manitou Dolomite), Dotsero Fm, Peerless Fm, and Sawatch Quartzite in west-ce (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Cambrian Ordovician): Dotsero Fm: Dolomite, in White River plateau only. Peerless Fm: sandstone and dolomite.
Sawatch Quartzite (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Cambrian): Locally includes Peerless Fm
Upper Permian rocks, undivided (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian): Siltstone, dolomite, and sandstone; in southeast

Connecticut

East Berlin Formation (Lower Jurassic): East Berlin Formation - Maroon siltstone, silty and sandy shale, and fine-grained silty sandstone, generally well laminated and commonly well indurated, alternating with dark fissile shale; dolomitic carbonate common in cement, concretions, and thin argillaceous laminae. Local arkose; grades eastward into coarse conglomerate close to eastern border fault. The East Berlin Formation of the Hartford basin contains eight facies: trough cross-bedded sandstones, horizontally stratified sandstones, interbedded sandstones and mudrocks, ripple cross-laminated siltstones, black shales, stratified mudrocks, disrupted shales, and disrupted mudstones. These facies are interpreted as a continental depositional system and are divided into two assemblages. Sandflat/alluvial plain facies assemblage (sandstones and siltstones) is composed of sheet-flood deposits. The lacustrine assemblage (shales and mudrocks) represents a saline lake-playa system (Gierlowski-Kordesch and Rust, 1994).
Units e and d [of Stockbridge Marble] (Lower Ordovician): Units e and d [of Stockbridge Marble] - White to gray massive calcite marble, commonly mottled with dolomite and locally interlayered with dolomite marble and calcareous siltstone and sandstone.

Delaware

Cockeysville Marble (Paleozoic): Cockeysville Marble - Dense, white crystalline limestone and dolomite.

Florida

Avon Park Formation (Eocene): Avon Park Formation - Middle Eocene carbonate sediments of peninsular Florida, as originally described by Applin and Applin (1944), were subdivided, in ascending order, into the Lake City Limestone and the Avon Park Limestone. Miller (1986) recommended combining the Lake City Limestone with the Avon Park Limestone and, due to the common occurrence of dolostone, referred to the unit as the Avon Park Formation. Carbonates of the Avon Park Formation are the oldest sediments exposed in the state. The Avon Park Formation crops out in a limited area in west-central peninsular Florida in Levy and Citrus Counties on the crest of the Ocala Platform. The Avon Park Formation consists of cream to light-brown or tan, poorly indurated to well indurated, variably fossiliferous, limestone (grainstone, packstone and wackestone, with rare mudstone). These limestones are interbedded with tan to brown, very poorly indurated to well indurated, very fine to medium crystalline, fossiliferous (molds and casts), vuggy dolostones. The fossils present include mollusks, foraminifers, echinoids, algae and carbonized plant remains. Molds and casts of gypsum crystals occur locally. The Avon Park Formation is part of the Floridan aquifer system (FAS). Parts of the Avon Park Formation comprise important, subregional confining units within the FAS (Miller, 1986).
Chattahoochee Formation (Miocene): Chattahoochee Formation - The Chattahoochee Formation, originally named by Dall and Stanley-Brown (1894), is predominantly a yellowish gray, poorly to moderately indurated, fine-grained, often fossiliferous (molds and casts), silty to finely sandy dolostone (Huddlestun, 1988). Siliciclastic beds and limestones may be present. The Chattahoochee Formation is exposed in Jackson County, central panhandle, on the Chattahoochee "Anticline". It grades laterally across the Gulf Trough into the St. Marks Formation through a broad transition area (Scott, 1986). The Chattahoochee Formation forms the upper part of the FAS in the central panhandle.
Hawthorn Group, Arcadia Formation (Oligocene/Miocene): Hawthorn Group, Arcadia Formation - The undifferentiated Arcadia Formation and the Tampa Member crop out on the southwestern flank of the Ocala Platform from Pasco County southward to Sarasota County. Although ages of the outcropping sediments have not been accurately determined, stratigraphic position suggests that the Upper Oligocene parts of the Arcadia Formation and Tampa Member are exposed in this region, particularly from Hillsborough County northward to Pasco County. The Arcadia Formation, named by Scott (1988), is predominantly a carbonate unit with a variable siliciclastic component, including thin beds of siliciclastics. Within the outcrop area, the Arcadia Formation, with the exception of the Tampa Member, is composed of yellowish gray to light olive gray to light brown, micro to finely crystalline, variably sandy, clayey, and phosphatic, fossiliferous limestones and dolostones. Thin beds of sand and clay are common. The sands are yellowish gray, very fine to medium grained, poorly to moderately indurated, clayey, dolomitic and phosphatic. The clays are yellowish gray to light olive gray, poorly to moderately indurated, sandy, silty, phosphatic and dolomitic. Molds and casts of mollusks are common in the dolostones. Silicified carbonates and opalized claystone are found in the Arcadia Formation.
Hawthorn Group, Coosawhatchie Formation (Miocene): Coosawhatchie Formation - The Coosawhatchie Formation is exposed or lies beneath a thin overburden on the eastern flank of the Ocala Platform from southern Columbia County to southern Marion County. Within the outcrop region, the Coosawhatchie Formation varies from a light gray to olive gray, poorly consolidated, variably clayey and phosphatic sand with few fossils, to an olive gray, poorly to moderately consolidated, slightly sandy, silty clay with few to no fossils. Occasionally the sands will contain a dolomitic component and, rarely, the dominant lithology will be dolostone or limestone. Silicified nodules are often present in the Coosawhatchie Formation sediments in the outcrop region. The sediment may contain 20 percent or more phosphate (Scott, 1988). Permeability of the Coosawhatchie sediments is generally low, forming part of the intermediate confining unit/aquifer system.
Hawthorn Group, Coosawhatchie Formation, Charlton Member (Miocene/Pliocene): Hawthorne Group, Coosawhatchie Formation, Charlton Member - The Charlton Member (originally the Charlton formation, Veatch and Stevenson, 1911), crops out only in northern Nassau County near and along the St. Marys River. The Charlton Member in this area consists primarily of light gray to greenish gray, poorly to moderately consolidated, dolomitic to calcareous, silty, sandy, locally fossiliferous clays. Few carbonate beds occur.
Hawthorn Group, Peace River Formation (Miocene/Pliocene): Hawthorne Group, Peace River Formation - The Peace River Formation crops out or is beneath a thin overburden on the southern part of the Ocala Platform extending into the Okeechobee Basin. These sediments were mapped from Hillsborough County southward to Charlotte County. Within this area, the Peace River Formation is composed of interbedded sands, clays and carbonates. The sands are generally light gray to olive gray, poorly consolidated, clayey, variably dolomitic, very fine to medium grained and phosphatic. The clays are yellowish gray to olive gray, poorly to moderately consolidated, sandy, silty, phosphatic and dolomitic. The carbonates are usually dolostone in the outcrop area. The dolostones are light gray to yellowish gray, poorly to well indurated, variably sandy and clayey, and phosphatic. Opaline chert is often found in these sediments. The phosphate content of the Peace River Formation sands is frequently high enough to be economically mined. Fossil mollusks occur as reworked casts, molds, and limited original shell material. Silicified corals and wood, and vertebrate fossils are also present. The Peace River Formation is widespread in southern Florida. It is part of the intermediate confining unit/aquifer system.
Hawthorn Group, Statenville Formation (Miocene): Hawthorn Group, Statenville Formation - The Statenville Formation occurs at or near the surface in a limited area of Hamilton, Columbia and Baker Counties on the northeastern flank of the Ocala Platform. The formation consists of interbedded sands, clays and dolostones with common to very abundant phosphate grains. The sands predominate and are light gray to light olive gray, poorly indurated, phosphatic, fine to coarse grained with scattered gravel and with minor occurrences of fossils. Clays are yellowish gray to olive gray, poorly consolidated, variably sandy and phosphatic, and variably dolomitic. The dolostones, which occur as thin beds, are yellowish gray to light orange, poorly to well indurated, sandy, clayey and phosphatic with scattered mollusk molds and casts. Phosphate occurs in the Statenville Formation in economically important amounts. Silicified fossils and opalized claystones are found in the Statenville Formation. Permeability of these sediments is generally low, forming part of the intermediate confining unit/aquifer system.
Ocala Limestone (Eocene): Ocala Limestone - Dall and Harris (1892) referred to the limestones exposed near Ocala, Marion County, in central peninsular Florida as the Ocala Limestone. Puri (1953, 1957) elevated the Ocala Limestone to group status recognizing its component formations on the basis of foraminiferal faunas (biozones). Scott (1991) reduced the Ocala Group to formational status in accordance with the North American Stratigraphic Code (North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature, 1983). The Ocala Limestone consists of nearly pure limestones and occasional dolostones. It can be subdivided into lower and upper facies on the basis of lithology. The lower member is composed of a white to cream-colored, fine to medium grained, poorly to moderately indurated, very fossiliferous limestone (grainstone and packstone). The lower facies may not be present throughout the areal extent of the Ocala Limestone and may be partially to completely dolomitized in some regions (Miller, 1986). The upper facies is a white, poorly to well indurated, poorly sorted, very fossiliferous limestone (grainstone, packstone and wackestone). Silicified limestone (chert) is common in the upper facies. Fossils present in the Ocala Limestone include abundant large and smaller foraminifers, echinoids, bryozoans and mollusks. The large foraminifera Lepidocyclina sp. is abundant in the upper facies and extremely limited in the lower facies. The presence of these large foraminifers in the upper facies is quite distinctive. The Ocala Limestone is at or near the surface within the Ocala Karst District in the westcentral to northwestern peninsula and within the Dougherty Plain District in the north-central panhandle (Scott, in preparation). In these areas, the Ocala Limestone exhibits extensive karstification. These karst features often have tens of feet (meters) of relief, dramatically influencing the topography of the Ocala Karst District and the Dougherty Plain District (Scott, in preparation). Numerous disappearing streams and springs occur within these areas. The permeable, highly transmissive carbonates of the Ocala Limestone form an important part of the FAS. It is one of the most permeable rock units in the FAS (Miller, 1986).
Suwannee Limestone (Oligocene): Suwannee Limestone - Peninsular Lower Oligocene carbonates crop out on the northwestern, northeastern and southwestern flanks of the Ocala Platform. The Suwannee Limestone is absent from the eastern side of the Ocala Platform due to erosion, nondeposition or both, an area referred to as Orange Island (Bryan, 1991). The Suwannee Limestone, originally named by Cooke and Mansfield (1936), consists of a white to cream, poorly to well indurated, fossiliferous, vuggy to moldic limestone (grainstone and packstone). The dolomitized parts of the Suwannee Limestone are gray, tan, light brown to moderate brown, moderately to well indurated, finely to coarsely crystalline, dolostone with limited occurrences of fossiliferous (molds and casts) beds. Silicified limestone is common in Suwannee Limestone. Fossils present in the Suwannee Limestone include mollusks, foraminifers, corals and echinoids.

Georgia

Conasauga Group; Lower unit; lower dolostone unit (Cambrian): Conasauga Group; Lower unit; lower dolostone unit: Includes shale and sandstone unit (Ccs) with lower dolostone unit (Ccdl). Possible equivalent of Pumpkin Valley Shale of Tennessee
Conasauga Group; Upper unit; Dolostone member (Cambrian): Conasauga Group; Upper unit; Dolostone member: Includes limestone and shale unit (Ccsl). Possible equivalent of the Maryville Limestone and Nolichucky Shale of Tennessee with a dolostone member (Ccd).
Copper Ridge Dolomite (Cambrian): Copper Ridge Dolomite
"Hawthorn Formation" (Miocene): "Hawthorn Formation", includes Marks Head Formation; Parachucia Beds (Sloan, 1905); and Alum Bluff Formation (Veatch and Stephenson, 1911).
Knox Group undifferentiated (Ordovician-Cambrian): Knox Group undifferentiated
Shady Dolomite (Cambrian): Shady Dolomite

Iowa

Alexandrian Series (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Silurian): Kankakee Formation- light colored dolomite; contains much interbedded chert. Approx thickness 155 ft. Englewood Dolomite- gray, sandy, silty, argillaceous dolomite. Approx thickness 55 ft
Cedar Valley Limestone (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Devonian-Middle): Finely crystalline and clastic limestone in upper part with coral and stromatoporoid-rich zones; brown, dolomitic limestone with biostromes of corals and stromatoporoids in middle part; gray argillaceous, fossiliferous limestone in lower part; dominantly dolomite with intervals of gypsum in the subsurface of central and southwestern Iowa.
Galena-Decorah-Platteville Formations (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Middle [Mohawkian]): Galena FM- dolomite, minor limestone; chert in lower half. Approx thickness 230 ft. Decorah FM- brown limestone and dolomite; gray-green and brown shales at top and base. Approx thickness 60 ft. Platteville FM- fossiliferous gray limestone and brown dolomite; grayish-green shale at base (Glenwood). Fine- to medium-grained sandstone occurs above the Glenwood in the subsurface of southeastern Iowa. Approx thickness 110 ft
Kinderhook Series (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Mississippian-Early): Gilmore City Limestone- light gray fossiliferous limestone, commonly oolitic. Approx thickness 155 ft. Hampton Formation- limestone and dolomite; fossiliferous gray chert in lower portion. Approx. thickness 150 ft. Starrs Cave Formation- bio-fragmental limestone; oolitic in part. Approx thickness 15 ft. Prospect Hill Formation- greenish-gray siltstone. Approx thickness 90 ft. McCraney Limestone- very pale orange to pale yellowish-brown sublithographic limestone and brown dolomite. Approx thickness 65 ft.
LaPort City Chert (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Devonian-Early): Predominantly chert with limestone and dolomite; minor shale and sandstone. Found in subsurface only.
Lime Creek Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Devonian-Late): Fossiliferous limestone or dolomite in upper part with local stromatoporoid biostromes in north-central Iowa; extremely fossiliferous gray shale and argillaceous limestone in middle; gray shale in lower part with spore carps toward base.
Maquoketa Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Late [Cincinnatian]): Predominantly grayish-green shale in east-central area; predominantly brown dolomite and chert in the subsurface of north-central and western areas; red shale with limonite or hematite pellets (Neda) occurs locally at top.
Meramec Series (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Mississippian-Late): Ste. Genevieve Limestone- fossiliferous limestone and red and green shale. Approx. thickness 50 ft. St. Louis Limestone- limestone and dolomite, sandstone locally perdominant; locally contains chert. Spergen Formation- sandy micaceous dolomite.
Niagaran Series (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Silurian): Gower Dolomite- LeClaire (reef phase) tough, greenish-blue dolomite; Anamosa (inner-reef) soft, yellowish-brown, thin-bedded dolomite. Hopkinton Dolomite- light colored dolomite with nodular chert.
Osage Series (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Mississippian-Early): Warsaw Formation- gray, dolomitic shale and argillaceous dolomite; chalcedonic chert. Locally contains many geodes.Approx thickness 85 ft. Keokuk Limestone- fossiliferous, gray or brown limestone and dolomite; gray and brown chert with white spicules, locally predominant in lower portion; minor brown or gray shale. Approx thickness 90 ft. Burlington Limestone- gray, fossiliferous limestone and darker gray dolomite; white and gray mottled fossiliferous chert, locally contains dolomite crystals; two widespread glauconite zones; basal sandstone locally in southeastern Iowa. Approx thickness 80 ft.
Prairie du Chien Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Early [Beekmantown]): Sandy dolomite in upper postion; sandstone in middle portion; dolomite with oolitic and tripolitic chert in lower portion.
Shell Rock Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Devonian-Late): Predominantly stromatoporoid biostromes in upper part; argillaceous limestone and gray shale in middle; massive limestone and dolomite in lower part with stromatoporoid biostromes near base; in north-central Iowa only.
St. Croixan Series (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Cambrian-Furongian): Jordan Sandstone- fine- to medium-grained, well sorted, frosted sandstone (includes Madison Sandstone). Approx thickness 120 ft. St. Lawrence Formation- coarsely crystalline, gray, silty dolomite; glauconite common (includes Lodi Sandstone).Approx thickness 230+ ft Franconia Sandstone- glauconitic, dolomitic siltstone and shale and glauconitic sandstone. Approx thickness 280 ft Galesville Sandstone- medium- to coarse-grained, white to gray sandstone. Eau Claire Sandstone- fissile, gray, silty shale and dolomitic siltstone and fine-grained sandstone. Mt. Simon Sandstone- medium- to coarse-grained sandstone with minor shale stringers. Galesville+Eau Claire+Mt. Simon=Approx thickness 1000 ft
Wapsipinicon Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Devonian-Middle): In descending order, finely crystalline limestone; brown dolomite with gypsum; gray, sandy shale and argillcceous limestone; and massive, finely crystalline, dolomitic limestone and pale-orange dolomite.
Yellow Spring Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Devonian-Late): English River Formation- gray siltstone; southeastern Iowa; locally in north-central Iowa. Approx thickness 23 ft. Maple Mill Shale- greenish-gray shale, silty in upper part; contains spore carps; discoidal, concentrically laminated limonite pellets at top in the subsurface of central and southwestern Iowa. Approx thickness 300 ft. Aplington Formation- argillaceous, silty dolomite and minor chert; quartz geodes. Approx thickness 40 ft. Sheffield Formation- greenish-gray shale in central Iowa and in the subsurface of southwestern Iowa; in decending order, dusky yellowish-brown shale followed by greenish-gray shale, very light olive-gray shale, and dark olive-gray shale in the subsurface of southeastern Iowa. Approx thickness 95 ft.

Idaho

Arenite, dolostone, limestone, siltstone, and shale; Cambrian marine outer continental-shelf deposits; central Idaho (Cambrian): Cambrian thrusted quartzite, fine-grained detritus, and dolomite of central Idaho.
Arenite, shale, dolostone, siltstone, conglomerate, chert, and limestone; Lower Ordovician marine outer continental-shelf deposits; central Idaho (Early Ordovician): Lower Ordovician dolomite, nodular cherty limestone, and intraformational conglomerate.
Argillite, siltstone, quartzite, and dolostone; Middle Proterozoic Missoula Group; northern Belt province (Middle Middle Proterozoic): Intermediate Precambrian sediments, light-colored siltite overlying multicolored fine-grained detrital beds of northern Idaho.
Chert, shale, phosphorite, and carbonates; Permian restricted marine epicontinental-basin deposits; southeastern Idaho (Permian): Permian phosphatic sandstone, mudstone and chert of east-central Idaho.
Dolostone, arenite, conglomerate, and chert; Silurian to Middle Ordovician marine outer continental-shelf deposits; east-central Idaho (Silurian to Middle Ordovician): Silurian to Middle Ordovician marine carbonate-to-clastic strata of east-central Idaho.
Dolostone, limestone, arenite, and chert: Devonian to Ordovician marine outer continental-shelf deposits; east-central Idaho (Devonian to Ordovician): Devonian to Ordovician marine calcareous sediments north of the Snake Plain.
Dolostone, limestone, arenite, chert, and conglomerate; Ordovician marine continental-shelf deposits; southeastern Idaho (Ordovician): Ordovician marine dolomite, quartzite, and limestone; subdivisions are (Ou and Ol).
Dolostone, limestone, sandstone, shale, and conglomerate; Devonian marine continental-shelf deposits; east-central and southeastern Idaho (Devonian): Devonian bedded dolomite and limestone interval of eastern and southern Idaho.
Dolostone, limestone, siltstone, arenite, and chert; Devonian and Silurian marine upper continental-slope deposits; east-central and central Idaho; (Devonian and Silurian): Devonian and Silurian shallow-water marine carbonate units of east-central Idaho.
Dolostone, quartzite, shale, and limestone; Upper to Middle Ordovician marine continental-shelf deposits; east central Idaho (Late and Middle Ordovician): Upper and Middle Ordovician dolomite and quartzite unconformably overlying (Ol).
Dolostone, shale, and chert; Silurian marine inner continental-shelf deposits (Late and Middle Silurian): Upper and Middle Silurian fossiliferous dolomite; clay, silt and sand near base.
Dolostone, shale, arenite, siltstone, limestone, conglomerate, and chert; Ordovician and Cambrian marine outer continental-shelf deposits; central Idaho (Ordovician and Cambrian): Ordovician and Cambrian thrusted dolomite, siltstone, and quartzite of central Idaho.
Limestone, arenite, dolostone, chert, siltstone, shale; Upper Paleozoic marine continental-shelf deposits; southeastern Idaho (Late Paleozoic): Upper Paleozoic marine sediments in southern Idaho.
Limestone, arenite, shale, dolostone, and siltstone; Upper Proterozoic to Cambrian marine continental-shelf deposits; southeastern Idaho (Cambrian): Cambrian marine dolomite, limestone, claystone, and quartzite; grades into Precambrian.
Limestone, dolostone, arenite, shale, and siltstone; Lower Paleozoic marine continental-shelf deposits; southeastern Idaho; (Early Paleozoic): Lower Paleozoic marine carbonate and clastic units southeast of the Snake Plain.
Limestone, dolostone, sandstone, siltstone, and chert; Lower Permian to Lower Pennsylvanian marine continental-shelf deposits; east-central Idaho (Early Permian to Early Pennsylvanian): Lower Permian to Lower Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) shallow-water detritus.
Limestone, dolostone, shale, and arenite; Ordovician and Cambrian shallow marine inner continental-shelf deposits; southeastern Idaho (Ordovician and Cambrian): Ordovician, commonly Lower, and Cambrian marine sediments of eastern and southern Idaho.
Limestone, sandstone, dolostone, and chert; Permian to Pennsylvanian marine epicontinental-basin deposits; southeastern Idaho; (Early Permian to Early Pennsylvanian): Lower Permian to Lower Pennsylvanian chert, limestone, and sandstone of southern Idaho; subdivisions are (Ps, and PNs).
Limestone, slate; Upper Triassic greenschist-facies metamorphic rocks; western Idaho, Blue Mountains island-arc complex; (Late Triassic): Upper Triassic shale overlying reefal limestone and dolomite in west-central Idaho.
Quartzite, meta-conglomerate, dolostone, argillite; Middle Proterozoic Swauger quartzite; southern Belt province (Middle Proterozoic): Intermediate Precambrian sediments, red-tinted quartzite with minor conglomeratic and dolomitic lenses of southern Idaho
Sandstone, siltstone, dolostone, and chert; Pennsylvanian to Mississippian shallow marine inner continental-shelf deposits; eastern east-central Idaho (Pennsylvanian and Mississippian ): Pennsylvanian and Mississippian shallow-water carbonates of eastern Idaho.
Siltite, argillite, dolostone, and quartzite; Middle Proterozoic Wallace Formation; northern Belt province (Early Middle Proterozoic): Intermediate Precambrian sediments, dark-colored calcareous and dolomitic argillite and siltite of northern Idaho.
Siltstone, sandstone, and dolostone; Early Permian marine epicontinental-basin deposits; southeastern Idaho (Early Permian): Lower Permian beds; uppermost portion of the southern Idaho sequence (PPNs).
Siltstone, shale, and limestone; Early Triassic marine to non-marine epicontinental deposits; southeastern Idaho (Early Triassic): Lower Triassic shallow-marine to non-marine sediments; limestone and chert above shaley sandstone, siltstone, and limestone of eastern Idaho.

Illinois

Ancell Group (Ordovician): Ancell Group
Cambrian (Cambrian): Cambrian
Galena-Platteville Groups (Ordovician): Galena-Platteville Groups
Lower Devonian (Devonian): Lower Devonian
Middle Devonian (Devonian): Middle Devonian
Prairie du Chien Group (Ordovician): Prairie du Chien Group
Silurian (Silurian): Silurian
Upper Valmeyeran (Aux Vases, Ste. Genevieve, St. Louis) Series (Mississippian): Upper Valmeyeran (Aux Vases, Ste. Genevieve, St. Louis) Series

Indiana

Bainbridge Group and Sexton Creek Limestone (Silurian): Bainbridge Group and Sexton Creek Limestone - Limestone and dolomite, in part cherty and argillaceous, shown in cross-section only
Black River and Ancell Groups (Ordovician): Black River and Ancell Groups - Dolomite, limestone, and sandstone
Borden Group (Mississippian): Borden Group - Mostly siltstone; lenses of crinodial limestone in upper part. Much cherty and silty limestone and dolomite in northwest. NP, top of New Providence Shale
Knox Supergroup (Cambrian-Ordovician): Knox Supergroup - P, base of Prairie du Chien Group
Munising Group (Cambrian): Munising Group - Shale, sandstone, limestone, and dolomite
Muscatatuck Group (Devonian): Muscatatuck Group - Limestone and dolomite
New Harmony Group (Devonian): New Harmony Group - Cherty limestone and dolomite, shown in cross-sections only
Ordovician rocks, undifferentiated (Silurian): Ordovician rocks, undifferentiated - Shale and limestone; upper part of Maquoketa Group in deep buried valleys; Maquoketa to upper part of Knox Supergroup in Kentland area
Pleasant Mills Formation (Silurian): Pleasant Mills Formation - Dolomite, limestone, and argillaceous dolomite
Salamonie Dolomite, Cataract Formation, and Brassfield Limestone (Silurian): Salamonie Dolomite, Cataract Formation, and Brassfield Limestone
Trenton Limestone (Ordovician): Trenton Limestone - Dolomite in northwestern Indiana,
Wabash Formation (Silurian): Wabash Formation - Limestone, dolomite, and argillaceous dolomite

Kansas

Guadalupia Series: Big Basin Formation, Day Creek Dolomite, and Whitehorse Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian [Custerian Cimarronian]): Big Basin FM- red silty shale, siltstone, dolomitic siltstone and fine-grained feldspathic sandstone. Day Creek Dolomite- light gray to pink, dense, fine-grained dolomite. Whitehorse FM- mostly red beds of feldspathic sandstone with some beds of siltstone and shale and minor dolomite.
Meramecian and Osagian Series: Warsaw Limestone and Keokuk Limestone (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Mississippian [Osagian]): Warsaw Limestone- semigranular limestone interlaminated with saccharoidal dolomite with large amounts of gray chert; glauconite occurrs in the lower part. Keokuk Limestone- white tripolitic, chert, siliceous limestone, and dolomite
Sumner Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian [Cimarronian]): Ninnescah Shale (base N)- mostly red silty shale with some gray shale , argillaceous limestone and dolomite. Wellington FM with Carlton Limestone Member (base CR)-mostly gray and some red shale with minor limestone and dolomite, siltstone, gypsum and anhydrite

Kentucky

Bisher Dolomite (Silurian): Bisher Dolomite
Crab Orchard Formation and Brassfield Dolomite, undivided (Silurian): Crab Orchard Formation and Brassfield Dolomite, undivided; locally includes Bisher Dolomite in Estill County
Cumberland Formation and Leipers and Catheys (?) Limestones, undivided (Ordovician): Cumberland Formation and Leipers and Catheys (?) Limestones, undivided; in southernmost Kentucky
Drakes Formation (Ordovician): Drakes Formation
Drakes Formation and Grant Lake and Calloway Creek Limestones, undivided (Ordovician): Drakes Formation and Grant Lake and Calloway Creek Limestones, undivided; in Boyle, Casey, and Marion Counties
High Bridge Group (Ordovician): High Bridge Group
Laurel Dolomite, Osgood Formation, and Brassfield Dolomite, undivided (Silurian): Laurel Dolomite, Osgood Formation, and Brassfield Dolomite, undivided
Louisville Limestone and Waldron Shale, undivided (Silurian): Louisville Limestone and Waldron Shale, undivided
New Albany, Chattanooga, and Ohio Shales, Boyle Dolomite (Limestone), and Sellersburg Limestone, undivided (Devonian to Mississippian): New Albany, Chattanooga, and Ohio Shales, Boyle Dolomite (Limestone), and Sellersburg Limestone, undivided
Pennington Formation and Newman Limestone (Mississippian): Pennington Formation and Newman Limestone; includes Carter Caves Sandstone in Carter County and vicinity
Pennington Formation, Newman Limestone, Fort Payne Chert, Grainger Formation, Sunbury Shale, Berea Sandstone, and Bedford Shale, undivided; Pennington Formation locally includes sandstone tongue of Lee Formation (Devonian to Pennsylvanian): Pennington Formation, Newman Limestone, Fort Payne Chert, Grainger Formation, Sunbury Shale, Berea Sandstone, and Bedford Shale, undivided; Pennington Formation locally includes sandstone tongue of Lee Formation
Preachersville Member of Drakes Formation and Bull Fork Formation, undivided (Ordovician): Preachersville Member of Drakes Formation and Bull Fork Formation, undivided; in Bath and Montgomery Counties
Renfro and Muldraugh Members of Borden Formation and Fort Payne Formation, undivided (Mississippian): Renfro and Muldraugh Members of Borden Formation and Fort Payne Formation, undivided
Salem, Warsaw, and Harrodsburg Limestones, undivided (Mississippian): Salem, Warsaw, and Harrodsburg Limestones, undivided
Ste. Genevieve and St. Louis Limestones, undivided (Mississippian): Ste. Genevieve and St. Louis Limestones, undivided; includes Salem Limestone west of Christian County

Massachusetts

Greylock Schist (Lower Cambrian and Proterozoic Z): Greylock Schist - Light-green to gray, white albite-spotted phyllite and interbedded blue-quartz metagraywacke, salmon-pink dolostone, and blue-quartz conglomerate. Minor interbeds of black and white albite-spotted phyllite resembles Hoosac (CAZhga).
Stockbridge Formation (Lower Cambrian): Stockbridge Formation - White to light-powdery-blue-gray dolostone with disseminated grains of quartz and prominent sprays of tremolite in higher-grade areas.
Stockbridge Formation (Lower Ordovician): Stockbridge Formation - Blue and gray mottled limestone and calcite marble and beds of beige dolostone.

Maryland

Conococheague Limestone (Upper Cambrian to Lower Ordovician ): Conococheague Limestone - Dark blue, laminated, oolitic, argillaceaous, and siliceous limestone, algal limestone, and flat-pebble conglomerate; siliceous shale partings; some sandstone and dolomite; thickness 1,600 to 1,900 feet.
Elbrook Limestone (Cambrian): Elbrook Limestone - Light blue, laminated, argillaceous limestone and calcareous shale; some dolomite; thickness 1,400 to possibly 3,000 feet.
Grove Limestone (Upper Cambrian to Lower Ordovician ): Grove Limestone - Dark gray to light dove, thick-bedded limestone; dolomite beds in lower part; highly quartzose limestone at base; Upper Cambrian to Lower Ordovician in age; thickness approximately 590 feet.
Pinesburg Station Dolomite (Ordovician): Pinesburg Station Dolomite - Light gray, laminated and mottled cherty dolomite; nonfossiliferous; thickness 375 to 500 feet.
Rockdale Run Formation (Ordovician): Rockdale Run Formation - Upper one-third gray, mottled, cherty dolomite and dolomitic limestone; lower two-thirds gray, cherty argillaceous calcarenite and algal limestone with interbedded dolomite and oolitic limestone; thickness at least 1,700 feet east of Conococheague Creek, increases to about 2,500 feet in west.
Stonehenge Limestone (Ordovician): Stonehenge Limestone - Upper part gray, thin-bedded, coarse-grained to conglomeratic, oolitic calcarenite; some dolomite; lower part gray, thick-bedded, fine-grained algal limestone; thickness 500 to 800 feet.
Tomstown Dolomite (Cambrian): Tomstown Dolomite - Interbedded light gray to yellowish-gray, thin- to thick-bedded dolomite and limestone; some shale layers; gradational contact with Antietam; thickness 200 to 1,000 feet.
Waynesboro Formation (Cambrian): Waynesboro Formation - Upper part red, gray, and yellowish-brown, thin-bedded siltstone, shale, and ripple-marked, cross-bedded sandstone; lower part interbedded dark gray to red shale and thin-bedded dolomite; thickness approximately 600 feet.

Maine

Devonian Beck Pond Limestone (Devonian): Devonian Beck Pond Limestone
Devonian Seboomook Formation Day Mountain member limestone (Devonian): Devonian Seboomook Formation Day Mountain member limestone
Devonian - Silurian Allagash Lake Formation mixed sedimentary rocks (Devonian - Silurian): Devonian - Silurian Allagash Lake Formation mixed sedimentary rocks
Devonian - Silurian Fish River Lake Formation (Devonian - Silurian): Devonian - Silurian Fish River Lake Formation
Devonian - Silurian Rindgemere Formation lower member (Devonian - Silurian): Devonian - Silurian Rindgemere Formation lower member
Devonian - Silurian undifferentiated sedimentary rocks of the Spider Lake, Chandler Pond and Third Lake Formations (Devonian - Silurian): Devonian - Silurian undifferentiated sedimentary rocks of the Spider Lake, Chandler Pond and Third Lake Formations
Precambrian Z rocks of Islesboro (Precambrian Z): Precambrian Z rocks of Islesboro
Precambrian Z rocks of Islesboro limestone (Precambrian): Precambrian Z rocks of Islesboro limestone
Silurian Spragueville Formation (Silurian): Silurian Spragueville Formation
Silurian unnamed limestone (Silurian): Silurian unnamed limestone
Silurian unnamed sedimentary rocks (Silurian): Silurian unnamed sedimentary rocks

Michigan

Bass Island Dolomite (Late Silurian): Bass Island Dolomite
Bayport Limestone (Mississippian): Bayport Limestone
Big Hill Dolomite (Late Ordovician): Big Hill Dolomite
Bois Blanc Formation (Early Devonian): Bois Blanc Formation
Cataract Formation (Early Silurian): Cataract Formation
Chocolay Group, undivided (Early Proterozoic): Chocolay Group, undivided - In Dickinson County, Mich., includes Randville Dolomite, Sturgeon Quartzite, and Fern Creek Formation. In Marquette range, between Marquette Bay and Champion, includes Wewe Slate, Kona Dolomite, Mesnard Quartzite, and Enchantment Lake Formation
Coldwater Shale (Mississippian): Coldwater Shale
Detroit River Group (Middle Devonian): Detroit River Group
Dundee Limestone (Middle Devonian): Dundee Limestone
Engadine Dolomite (Early Silurian): Engadine Dolomite
Garden Island Formation (Early Devonian): Garden Island Formation
Manistique Formation (Early Silurian): Manistique Formation
Michigan Formation (Mississippian): Michigan Formation
Paleozoic undivided (Paleozoic): Paleozoic undivided
Prairie du Chien Group (Early Ordovician): Prairie du Chien Group
Sainte Ignace Dolomite (Late Silurian): Sainte Ignace Dolomite
Salina Group (Late Silurian): Salina Group
Sylvania Sandstone (Early Devonian): Sylvania Sandstone
Trempealeau Formation (Late Cambrian): Trempealeau Formation
Trenton Limestone (Late Ordovician): Trenton Limestone

Minnesota

Bassett Member of the Little Cedar Formation (Cedar Valley Group) and Pinicon Ridge and Spillville Formations (Wapsipinicon Group) (Devonian): Bassett Member of the Little Cedar Formation (Cedar Valley Group) and Pinicon Ridge and Spillville Formations (Wapsipinicon Group) - Dolostone and shaly dolostone
Devonian rocks, undivided (Devonian): Devonian rocks, undivided - Limestone, dolomitic limestone, and dolostone of the Cedar Valley and Wapsipinicon Groups
Jurassic rocks, undivided (Jurassic): Jurassic rocks, undivided - Unnamed units of green, gray, brown, and red shale, white to tan micritic limestone and dolostone, and white, fine- to coarse-grained sandstone and siltstone; unit contains nodules of chert and gypsum
Lithograph City Formation, Coralville Formation and Hinckle and Eagle City Members of the Little Cedar Formation (Cedar Valley Group), undivided (Devonian): Lithograph City Formation, Coralville Formation and Hinckle and Eagle City Members of the Little Cedar Formation (Cedar Valley Group), undivided - Limestone, dolostone, and lesser amounts of shale
Lower Ordovician rocks, undivided (Lower Ordovician): Lower Ordovician rocks, undivided - Shakopee and Oneota Formations of the Prairie du Chien Group in the Hollandale embayment of southeastern Minnesota. Unit consists dominantly of dolostone and dolomitic limestone. The Shakopee also contains intervals of quartz arenite, including a pronounced basal unit named the New Richmond Member
Mille Lacs Group and related rocks of the Penokean fold-and-thrust belt; Quartz arenite, siltstone, and chert-rich dolostone of the Trout Lake Formation in Crow Wing County (Early Proterozoic): Mille Lacs Group and related rocks of the Penokean fold-and-thrust belt; Quartz arenite, siltstone, and chert-rich dolostone of the Trout Lake Formation in Crow Wing County
Upper and Middle Ordovician rocks, undivided (Late and Middle Ordovician): Upper and Middle Ordovician rocks, undivided - Limestone and shaly limestone of the Maquoketa and Dubuque Formations, and limestone and dolostone of the Galena Group in the Hollandale embayment of southeastern Minnesota
Upper Cambrian, undivided (Late Cambrian): Upper Cambrian, undivided - Jordan Sandstone; dolomite, glauconite, and silty glauconite rocks of the St. Lawerence and Franconia Formation; Ironton and Galesville Sandstones; sandy and shaly rocks of the Eau Claire Formation; and the Mt. Simon Sandstone.

Missouri

ELVINS GROUP- (INCLUDING DERBY-DOERUN DOLOMITE, DAVIS FORMATION), BONNETERRE DOLOMITE (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Cambrian-Furongian [Croixian]): ELVINS GROUP - (INCLUDING DERBY - DOERUN DOLOMITE - alternating thin dolomite, siltstone, and shale; DAVIS FORMATION - glauconitic shale with fine - grained sandstone, limestone, and dolomite); BONNETERRE DOLOMITE - dolomite, dolomitic limestone, and limestone; glauconitic in lower part
EMINENCE DOLOMITE, POTOSI DOLOMITE (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Cambrian-Furongian [Croixian]): EMINENCE DOLOMITE - dolomite with some druse - coated chert. POTOSI DOLOMITE - dolomite with abundance of druse - coated chert.
GASCONADE DOLOMITE (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Early [Ibexian]): GASCONADE DOLOMITE - coarse - crystalline cherty dolomite with a basal Gunter Sandstone Member.
JOACHIM DOLOMITE, DUTCHTOWN FORMATION (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Middle [Mohawkian]): JOACHIM DOLOMITE, DUTCHTOWN FORMATION
OSAGEAN SERIES (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Mississippian-Early [Osagean]): OSAGEAN SERIES - KEOKUK LIMESTONE, BURLINGTON LIMESTONE, ELSEY FORMATION, REEDS SPRING FORMATION, PIERSON LIMESTONE, FERN GLEN FORMATION
ROUBIDOUX FORMATION (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Early [Ibexian]): ROUBIDOUX FORMATION - sandstone, chert and interbedded dolomite
SILURIAN SYSTEM (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Silurian-Early Silurian-Middle(?) Silurian-Late): SILURIAN SYSTEM - JOLIET LIMESTONE, BOWLING GREEN DOLOMITE, BRYANT KNOB FORMATION, BAINBRIDGE FORMATION, SEXTON CREEK LIMESTONE
SMITHVILLE DOLOMITE, POWELL DOLOMITE, COTTER DOLOMITE, JEFFERSON CITY DOLOMITE (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Early [Ibexian]): SMITHVILLE DOLOMITE, POWELL DOLOMITE, COTTER DOLOMITE, JEFFERSON CITY DOLOMITE - fine crystalline, silty, cherty dolomite, and oolitic chert with local sandstone beds
ST. PETER SANDSTONE, EVERTON FORMATION (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Early Ordovician-Middle): ST. PETER SANDSTONE, EVERTON FORMATION
UNDIFFERENTIATED (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician): UNDIFFERENTIATED (ORDOVICIAN ROCKS)

Montana

Ordovician, undifferentiated (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician): Ordovician, undifferentiated: Mainly Bighorn dolomite; near Idaho, Kinnikinic quartzite.

North Carolina

Castle Hayne Formation; Comfort Member and New Hanover Member, undivided (Tertiary): Comfort Member and New Hanover Member, undivided - Comfort Member: bryozoan-echinoid skeletal limestone, locally dolomitized, solution cavities common. New Hanover Member: phosphate-pebble conglomerate, micritic, thin; restricted to basal part of Castle Hayne Formation in southeastern counties.
Rome Formation (Cambrian): Rome Formation - shale and siltstone, variegated red to brown; interbedded fine-grained sandstone and shaly dolomite.
Shady Dolomite (Cambrian): Shady Dolomite - light gray, fine grained, massive, locally thin bedded or ribboned.
Shady Dolomite (Cambrian): Shady Dolomite - light gray, fine grained, massive, locally thin bedded or ribboned. Thin beds of phyllite.

New Jersey

Allentown Dolomite (Lower Ordovician and Upper Cambrian): Allentown Dolomite (Wherry, 1909) - Very thin to very thick bedded dolomite containing minor orthoquartzite and shale. Upper part is medium-light- to medium-dark-gray, fine- to medium-grained, locally coarse-grained, medium- to very thick bedded dolomite. Floating quartz sand grains and two sequences of medium-light- to very light gray, thin-bedded quartzite and discontinuous, dark-gray chert lenses occur directly below upper contact. Rhythmically bedded lower dolomite beds alternate between light and dark gray weathering, medium and very light gray, fine and medium grained, and thin and medium bedded, which are interbedded with shaly dolomite. Ripple marks, crossbeds, edgewise conglomerate, mud cracks, oolites, and algal stromatolites occur throughout unit, but more typically in lower part. Shaly dolomite increases downward toward lower conformable contact with the Leithsville Formation. Oldest beds contain trilobite fauna of early Late Cambrian age; younger beds contain latest Cambrian fauna (Howell, 1945; Howell and others, 1950). Thickness about 580 m (1,900 ft).
Allentown Dolomite (Lower Ordovician and Upper Cambrian) (Wherry, 1909) (Lower Ordovician and Upper Cambrian): Allentown Dolomite (Lowest Lower Ordovician and Upper Cambrian) (Wherry, 1909) - Medium- to very light gray, fine- to medium-grained, very thin to very thick bedded dolomite containing minor orthoquartzite and shale. Oolites and algal stromatolites occur throughout unit. Shaly dolomite increases downward towards lower conformable contact with the Leithsville Formation. Unit does not crop out but is known from subsurface borings near Flanders (Volkert and others, 1990). Thickness ranges from 0 to 73 m (0-240 ft) due to erosion.
Beekmantown Group, Lower Part (Lower Ordovician): Beekmantown Group, Lower Part (Clarke and Schuchert, 1899) - Very thin to thick-bedded, interbedded dolomite and minor limestone. Upper beds are light-olive-gray to dark-gray, fine- to medium-grained, thin- to thick-bedded dolomite. Middle part is olivegray-, light-brown-, or dark-yellowish-orange- weathering, dark-gray, aphanitic to fine-grained, laminated to medium-bedded dolomite and light-gray to light-bluish-gray-weathering, medium-dark- to dark-gray, fine-grained, thin- to medium-bedded limestone, that is characterized by mottling with reticulate dolomite and light-olive-gray to grayish-orange, dolomitic shale laminae surrounding limestone lenses. Limestone grades laterally and down section into medium- gray, fine-grained dolomite. Lower beds consist of medium-light- to dark-gray, aphanitic to coarse-grained, laminated to medium-bedded, locally slightly fetid dolomite having thin black chert beds, quartz-sand laminae, and oolites. Lenses of light-gray, very coarse to coarse-grained dolomite and floating quartz sand grains and quartz-sand stringers at base of sequence. Lower contact placed at top of distinctive medium-gray quartzite. Contains conodonts of Cordylodus proavus to Rossodus manitouensis zones of North American Midcontinent province as used by Sweet and Bergstrom (1986). Unit Obl forms Stonehenge Formation of Drake and Lyttle (1985) and Drake and others (1985), upper and middle beds are included in Epler Formation, and lower beds are in Rickenbach Dolomite of Markewicz and Dalton (1977). Unit is about 183 m (600 ft) thick.
Beekmantown Group, Upper Part (Lower Ordovician): Beekmantown Group, Upper Part (Clarke and Schuchert, 1899) - Locally preserved upper beds are light- to medium-gray- to yellowish-gray-weathering, medium-light- to medium-gray, aphanitic to medium-grained, thin- to thick-bedded, locally laminated, slightly fetid dolomite. Medium-dark to dark-gray, fine-grained, medium-bedded, sparsely fossiliferous limestone lenses occur locally. Lower beds are medium-dark- to dark-gray, medium- to coarse-grained, mottled surface weathering, medium- to thick-bedded, strongly fetid dolomite that contains pods and lenses of dark-gray to black chert. Cauliflower-textured black chert beds of variable thickness occur locally. Gradational lower contact is placed at top of laminated to thin-bedded dolomite of the lower part (Obl) of the Beekmantown Group. Contains conodonts high in the Rossodus manitouensis zone to low zone D of the North American midcontinent province as used by Sweet and Bergstrom (1986). Upper beds are included in Epler Formation; lower beds are included in Rickenbach Dolomite of Drake and Lyttle (1985) and Drake and others (1985); entire upper part (Obu) is Ontelaunee Formation of Markewicz and Dalton (1977). Thickness ranges from 0 to 244 m (0-800 ft).
Berkshire Valley and Poxono Island Formations, undivided (Upper Silurian): Berkshire Valley and Poxono Island Formations, undivided - Thickness ranges from 76 m (250 ft) at Greenwood Lake to 122 m (400 ft) in Longwood Valley. Berkshire Valley Formation (Barnett, 1970) - Commonly yellowish-gray weathering, medium-gray to pinkish-gray, very thin to thin-bedded fossiliferous limestone interbedded with gray to greenish-gray calcareous siltstone and silty dolomite, medium-gray to light-gray dolomite conglomerate, and grayish-black, thinly laminated shale. Lower contact conformable. Thickness ranges from 27 to 38 m (90-125 ft) thick. Poxono Island Formation, (White, 1882; Barnett, 1970) - Very thin to medium-bedded sequence of medium-gray, greenish-gray, or yellowish-gray, mud-cracked dolomite; light-green, pitted, medium-grained calcareous sandstone, siltstone, and edgewise conglomerate containing gray dolomite; and quartz-pebble conglomerate containing angular to subangular pebbles as much as 2 cm (0.8 in.) long. Interbedded grayish-green shales at lower contact are transitional into underlying Longwood Shale. Thickness ranges from 49 to 84 m (160-275 ft) thick.
Bushkill Member (Middle Ordovician): Bushkill Member (Drake and Epstein, 1967) - Interbedded medium- to dark gray, thinly laminated to thick-bedded shale and slate and less abundant medium-gray to brownish-gray, laminated to thin-bedded siltstone. To the southwest, fine-grained, thin dolomite lenses occur near base. Complete turbidite sequences (Bouma, 1962) occur locally, but basal cutout sequences (Tbcde, Tcde or Tde) dominate. Conformable lower contact is placed at top of highest shaly limestone; elsewhere, lower contact is commonly strain slipped. Correlates with graptolite Climacograptus bicornis to Corynoides americanus zones of Riva (1969, 1974) (Parris and Cruikshank, 1992). Thickness ranges from 1,250 m (4,100 ft) in Delaware River Valley to 457 m (1,500 ft) at New York State line.
Jacksonburg Limestone and Sequence at Wantage, undivided (Middle Ordovician): Jacksonburg Limestone and Sequence at Wantage, undivided - Jacksonburg Limestone - Upper part is medium- to dark-gray, laminated to thin-bedded shaly limestone and less abundant medium-gray arenaceous limestone containing quartz-sand lenses. Upper part thin to absent to northeast. Lower part is interbedded medium- to dark-gray, fine- to medium-grained, very thin to medium-bedded fossiliferous limestone and minor medium- to thick-bedded dolomite-cobble conglomerate having a limestone matrix. Unconformable on Beekmantown Group and conformable on the discontinuous sequence at Wantage in the Paulins Kill area. Contains conodonts of North American midcontinent province from Phragmodus undatus to Aphelognathus shatzeri zones of Sweet and Bergstrom (1986). Thickness ranges from 41 to 244m (135-800 ft). Sequence at Wantage - Restricted, discontinuous sequence of interbedded limestone, dolomite, conglomerate, siltstone, and shale. Upper part is medium-yellowish-brown- to olive-gray-weathering, medium- to dark-gray, very fine to fine-grained, laminated to massive limestone and dolomite that grade down into underlying clastic rocks of lower part. Upper part locally absent. Lower part ranges from grayish-red, medium-gray, pale-brown, and greenish-gray to pale-green mudstone and siltstone containing disseminated subangular to subrounded chert-gravel, quartz-sand lenses, and chert-pebble conglomerate. Lower contact unconformable. Thickness ranges from 0 to 46 m (0-150 ft).
Jutland Klippe Sequence, undifferentiated (Middle Ordovician to Upper Cambrian?): Jutland Klippe Sequence, undifferentiated - Rocks of the Jutland klippe sequence occur in six isolated fragments of the Jutland klippe east of Jutland and two fragments of the Peapack klippe along the Peapack-Ralston fault in the New Jersey Highlands hinterland. The sequence is largely varicolored shale and sandstone, but contains lesser amounts of limestone, dolomite and pebble conglomerate. Lash and Drake (1984) correlate this sequence with the accretionary prism deposits of the Greenwich slice of the Hamburg klippe in eastern Pennsylvania. Rocks of the Jutland klippe sequence were folded and thrust over rocks of the Kittatinny Valley sequence during the Taconic orogeny and then were deformed during the Alleghanian orogeny and again during Mesozoic rifting of eastern North America.
Jutland Klippe Sequence Unit B (Middle Ordovician): Jutland Klippe Sequence Unit B of Perissoratis and others (1979) - Heterogeneous sequence of interbedded red, green, tan and gray shale; interlaminated dolomite and shale; interbedded fine-grained graywacke siltstone and beds or lenses of sandstone; light-gray to pale-pinkish-gray quartzite; and interbedded fine-grained, thin-bedded limestone and red and green shale. Limestone locally resembles an intraformational conglomerate because it is disrupted, boudinaged, and surrounded by shale beds. Lower contact gradational and within interbedded sequence of thin- to medium-bedded sandstone, siltstone, and limestone. Perissoratis and others (1979) placed this contact at boundary between graptolite faunas Isograptus caduceus and Paraglossograptus etheridgei of Berry (1968). The youngest graptolites occur within Climacograptus bicornis zone of Berry (1968). Some shale beds contain conodonts (Ethington and others, 1958; Karklins and Repetski, 1989) and brachiopod fragments. Carbonate and pelitic rocks locally contain conodonts of Prioniodus triangularis to Pygodus anserinus faunas of North Atlantic Realm. Thickness varies due to structural complexity, but may be about 460 to 550 m (1,500-1,800 ft).
Leithsville Formation (Middle and Lower Cambrian): Leithsville Formation (Middle and Lower Cambrian) (Wherry, 1909) - Light- to dark-gray and lightolive-gray, fine- to medium-grained, thin- to medium-bedded dolomite. Grades downward through medium-gray, grayish-yellow, or pinkish-gray dolomite and dolomitic sandstone, siltstone and shale to medium-gray, medium-grained, medium-bedded dolomite containing quartz sand grains as stringers and lenses near the base. Lower contact gradational. Thickness ranges from 0 to 56 m (0-185 ft) due to erosion.
Leithsville Formation (Middle and Lower Cambrian): Leithsville Formation (Wherry, 1909) - Thin- to thick-bedded dolomite containing subordinate siliciclastic rocks. Upper part is medium- to medium-dark-gray, fine- to medium-grained, pitted, friable, mottled and massive dolomite. Middle part is medium-gray, stylolitic, fine-grained, thin- to medium-bedded dolomite that is interbedded with shaly dolomite and, less commonly, vari-colored quartz sandstone, siltstone, and shale. Lower part is medium-gray, medium-grained, medium-bedded dolomite containing quartz-sand grains in stringers and lenses near the contact with the Hardyston Quartzite. Archaeocyathids of Early Cambrian age suggest an intraformational disconformity separating rocks of Middle and Early Cambrian age (Palmer and Rozanov, 1976). Thickness approximately 305 m (1,000 ft).
Ouachitite breccia (Early Silurian? and Late Ordovician): Ouachitite breccia - Medium-dark-gray, fine-grained ouachitite (olivine-free biotite lamprophyre) containing pebble- to cobble-size xenoliths of Middle Proterozoic rock, dolomite of the Kittatinny Supergroup(?), the Martinsburg Formation, and autoliths of potassic syenite, lamprophyre, and carbonatite. Found in numerous diatremes in the Beemerville area; largest of at Rutan Hill.
Poxono Island Formation (Upper Silurian): Poxono Island Formation (White, 1882) - Greenish-gray, finely crystalline to aphanitic, thin- to medium-bedded, flaggy dolomite containing discontinuous lenses of disseminated, rounded quartz grains. Some local quartz sandstone beds and argillaceous dolomite. Lower contact gradational (Epstein, 1973). Formation poorly exposed; located by drill data. Thickness estimated at 183 m (600 ft) from well data.
Rondout and Decker Formations, undivided (Lower Devonian and Upper Silurian): Rondout and Decker Formations, undivided - Rondout Formation (Clarke and Schuchert, 1899) - Upper part is medium-gray weathering, medium-dark-gray, very fine to fine-grained, medium-bedded, fossiliferous, argillaceous limestone. Middle part is light-medium-gray-weathering, medium-gray, laminated to medium-bedded, argillaceous dolomite. Locally contains deep desiccation polygons. Lower part is medium-gray-weathering, medium- to dark-gray, very fine to medium-grained, medium-bedded fossiliferous limestone. Silurian-Devonian boundary placed in middle of formation (Denkler and Harris, 1988). Lower contact abrupt and placed at top of highest calcareous quartz sandstone. Thickness approximately 12 m (40 ft). Decker Formation (White, 1882) - Light-gray- to yellowish-gray-weathering, light- to medium-gray, calcareous quartz siltstone, sandstone, and fine-pebble conglomerate locally interbedded with fossiliferous medium-gray, medium- to coarse-grained limestone and very fine grained, thin- to medium-bedded dolomite. Lower contact gradational. Thickness varies from 15 m (50 ft) near Duttonville to 25 m (82 ft) at Wallpack Center.
Wantage Sequence (Middle Ordovician): Wantage Sequence (Monteverde and Herman, 1989) - Restricted, discontinuous sequence of interbedded limestone, dolomite, conglomerate, siltstone, and shale. Upper part is medium-yellowish-brown- to olive-gray-weathering, medium- to dark-gray, very fine to fine-grained, laminated to massive limestone and dolomite that grade down into underlying clastic rocks of lower part. Upper part locally absent. Lower part ranges from grayish-red, medium-gray, pale-brown, and greenish-gray to pale-green mudstone and siltstone containing disseminated subangular to subrounded chert-gravel, quartz-sand lenses, and chert-pebble conglomerate. Lower contact unconformable. Thickness ranges from 0 to 46 m (0-150 ft).

New Mexico

Artesia Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian): Artesia Group; shelf facies forming broad south-southeast trending outcrop from Glorieta to Artesia area; includes Grayburg, Queen, Seven Rivers, Yates, and Tansill Formations; Guadalupian. May locally include Moenkopi Formation (Triassic) at top
Quatermaster and Rustler Formations (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian): Quartermaster and Rustler Formations; Upper Permian
Seven Rivers Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian): Seven Rivers Formation; gypsum, anhydrite, salt, dolomite, and siltstone; Guadalupian

Nevada

Cherty limestone and sparse dolomite, shale, and sandstone (Permian): CHERTY LIMESTONE AND SPARSE DOLOMITE, SHALE, AND SANDSTONE (Lower and Upper Permian)-Includes units such as Park City Group and equivalent rocks in northern Nevada and Toroweap Formation and Kaibab Limestone in southern Nevada
Conglomerate, sandstone, shale, and dolomite of Diablo Formation below and shale, sandstone, and conglomerate of Candelaria Formation above (Early Permian to Early Triassic): CONGLOMERATE, SANDSTONE, SHALE, AND DOLOMITE OF DIABLO FORMATION BELOW AND SHALE, SANDSTONE, AND CONGLOMERATE OF CANDELARIA FORMATION ABOVE (Lower or Upper Permian to Lower Triassic)-Mineral, Esmeralda, and northwestern Nye Counties
Dolomite (Silurian to Early Devonian): DOLOMITE-Includes units such as Laketown and Lone Mountain Dolomites. Locally includes rocks of Early Devonian age at top.
Dolomite (Late Ordovician to Late Silurian): DOLOMITE-Includes uppermost part of Ordovician System (Ely Springs Dolomite and equivalent rocks) and all of Silurian System.
Dolomite and limestone (Middle Cambrian to Ordovician): DOLOMITE AND LIMESTONE-Undivided Cambrian and Ordovician rocks in part of Clark County; mostly Cambrian.
Dolomite and limestone (Middle Cambrian to Devonian): DOLOMITE AND LIMESTONE (Lower Paleozoic)
Dolomite, limestone, and minor amounts of sandstone and quartzite (Devonian): DOLOMITE, LIMESTONE, AND MINOR AMOUNTS OF SANDSTONE AND QUARTZITE-Includes units such as Sevy and Simonson Dolomites, Guilmette and Nevada Formations, and Devils Gate Limestone.
Horse Spring Formation (Late Oligocene to Middle Miocene): HORSE SPRING FORMATION-Tuffaceous sedimentary rocks, southern Nevada
Igneous and metamorphic complex (Paleozoic sedimentary rocks with Mesozoic intrusive rocks): IGNEOUS AND METAMORPHIC COMPLEX-Pegmatitic granite and other granitic rocks complexly intermixed with metasedimentary rocks. Considered to be Mesozoic igneous complex intruding lower Paleozoic and possibly Precambrian Z sedimentary rocks. Grades into units shown on map as lower Paleozoic. Ruby Mountains and East Humboldt Range, Elko County
Limestone and dolomite, locally thick sequences of shale and siltstone (Late Cambrian to Middle Cambrian): LIMESTONE AND DOLOMITE, LOCALLY THICK SEQUENCES OF SHALE AND SILTSTONE-Includes units such as Pioche Shale, Eldorado Dolomite, Geddes Limestone, Secret Canyon Shale, Hamburg Dolomite, Dunderberg Shale, and Windfall Formation of northern Nevada and Carrara, Bonanza King, and Nopah Formations of southern Nevada.
Limestone and minor amounts of dolomite and shale (Mississippian): LIMESTONE AND MINOR AMOUNTS OF DOLOMITE AND SHALE-Includes units such as Rogers Spring and Monte Cristo Limestones
Limestone and sparse dolomite, siltstone, and sandstone (Mississippian to Early Permian): LIMESTONE AND SPARSE DOLOMITE, SILTSTONE, AND SANDSTONE-Includes units such as undivided Riepe Spring Limestone of Steele (1960) and Ely Limestone or their equivalent in Elko, White Pine, and northern Lincoln Counties and most of the Bird Spring Formation and Callville Limestone in Clark and southern Lincoln Counties. Includes some stratigraphically higher Permian rocks in Leppy Peak, easternmost Elko County.
Limestone, dolomite, shale, and quartzite (Ordovician): LIMESTONE, DOLOMITE, SHALE, AND QUARTZITE-Includes units such as Pogonip Group, Eureka Quartzite, and Ely Springs Dolomite. Where Ely Springs Dolomite or equivalent rocks are included in SOc unit, this unit includes only the Pogonip Group and Eureka Quartzite or their equivalents.
Limestone, minor amounts of dolomite, shale, and sandstone; locally thick conglomerate units (Triassic): LIMESTONE, MINOR AMOUNTS OF DOLOMITE, SHALE, AND SANDSTONE; LOCALLY THICK CONGLOMERATE UNITS (Lower, Middle, and Upper Triassic)-Includes Tobin, Dixie Valley, Favret, Augusta Mountain, and Cane Spring Formations and Star Peak Group in central Nevada and Grantsville and Luning Formations in west-central Nevada
Moenkopi Formation, Thaynes Formation, and related rocks (Early Triassic to Middle Triassic): MOENKOPI FORMATION, THAYNES FORMATION, AND RELATED ROCKS (Lower Triassic)-Marine deposits of siltstone, limestone, and sparse conglomerate
Phyllitc siltstone, quartzite, and lesser amounts of limestone and dolomite (Late Proterozoic to Early Cambrian): PHYLLITIC SILTSTONE, QUARTZITE, AND LESSER AMOUNTS OF LIMESTONE AND DOLOMITE-Includes Reed Dolomite; Deep Spring, Campito, Poleta, Harkless, and Saline Valley Formations; and Mule Spring Limestone
Platy limestone and limy siltstone, chert at base (Silurian to Early Devonian): PLATY LIMESTONE AND LIMY SILTSTONE, CHERT AT BASE-Includes units such as Roberts Mountains Formation, and Storff Formation and Chellis Limestone of Decker (1962). Locally includes rocks of Early Devonian age at top.
Quartzite and minor amounts of conglomerate, phyllitic siltstone, limestone, and dolomite (Late Proterozoic to Early Cambrian): QUARTZITE AND MINOR AMOUNTS OF CONGLOMERATE, PHYLLITIC SILTSTONE, LIMESTONE, AND DOLOMITE-Includes Prospect Mountain Quartzite, Osgood Mountain Quartzite, and Gold Hill Formation in northern Nevada, and Stirling Quartzite, Wood Canyon Formation, and Zabriskie Quartzite in southern Nevada.
Quartzite, phyllitic siltstone, conglomerate, limestone, and dolomite (Late Proterozoic): QUARTZITE, PHYLLITIC SILTSTONE, CONGLOMERATE, LIMESTONE, AND DOLOMITE-Includes McCoy Creek Group (excluding Stella Lake Quartzite) in east-central Nevada and Johnnie Formation in southern Nevada.
Shale, chert, and minor amounts of quartzite, greenstone, and limestone (Ordovician): SHALE, CHERT, AND MINOR AMOUNTS OF QUARTZITE, GREENSTONE, AND LIMESTONE-Includes units such as Vinini Formation of north-central Nevada, Palmetto Formation in southern and central parts of Esmeralda County, and Comus Formation in Humboldt County. Locally includes rocks of Silurian and Devonian age.
Shale, siliceous siltstone, chert, and minor amounts of limestone (Devonian): SHALE, SILICEOUS SILTSTONE, CHERT, AND MINOR AMOUNTS OF LIMESTONE-Includes Cockalorum Wash Formation of northern Nye County and Woodruff Formation and unnamed rocks in Elko County
Shale, siltstone, sandstone, chert-pebble conglomerate, and limestone (Devonian to Mississippian): SHALE, SILTSTONE, SANDSTONE, CHERT-PEBBLE CONGLOMERATE, AND LIMESTONE-Includes units such as Pilot Shale, Joana Limestone, Chainman Shale, and Diamond Peak Formation in northern and eastern Nevada and Narrow Canyon Limestone, Mercury Limestone, and Eleana Formation in southern Nevada
Siltstone, sandstone, limestone, and dolomite (commonly silty or sandy) and gypsum (Early Permian): SILTSTONE, SANDSTONE, LIMESTONE, AND DOLOMITE (COMMONLY SILTY OR SANDY), AND GYPSUM (Lower Permian)-Includes units such as Rib Hill Sandstone and Pequop Formation of Steele (1959) in Elko County, Rib Hill Sandstone and Arcturus Formation in White Pine County, Queantoweap Sandstone of NcNair (1951), Hermit Shale, and Coconino Sandstone in Clark and southern Lincoln Counties.
Tuffaceous sedimentary rocks (Late Eocene to Late Miocene): TUFFACEOUS SEDIMENTARY ROCKS-Locally includes minor amounts of tuff
Wyman Formation (Late Proterozoic): WYMAN FORMATION-Phyllite and phyllitic siltstone and minor amounts of limestone, dolomite, and sandstone

New York

Akron Dolostone (Upper Silurian): Akron Dolostone - Bertie Formation-dolostone, shale.
Akron Dolostone (Upper Silurian): Akron Dolostone - Bertie Formation-dolostone, shale.
Beekmantown Group (Lower Ordovician): Beekmantown Group - Mohawk Valley: Chuctanunda Creek Dolostone; Tribes Hill Formation-limestone, dolostaone; Gailor Dolostone. Washington County: Providence Island Dolostone; Fort Cassin Formation-limestone, dolostone; Fort Ann Formation-limestone, dolostone; Cutting Formation-dolostone, local chert, limestone at top, siltstone at base.
Beekmantown Group (Cambrian): Beekmantown Group - Mohawk Valley: Little Falls Dolostone-chert; Hoyt Formation-limestone, dolostone, oolite. Washington county: Whitehall Formation-dolostone, limestone; Ticonderoga Dolostone-chert.
Beekmantown Group (in part) (Lower Ordovician): Beekmantown Group (in part) - In St. Lawrence Valley: Ogdensburg Dolostone (Beauharnois Dolostone in Canada); In Champlain Valley: Providence Island Dolostone; Fort Cassin Formation-limestone, dolostone; Fort Ann Formation (Spellman of Clinton and Essex Counties)-limestone, dolostone; Cutting Formation-dolostone (locally cherty), limestone, siltstone. In Vermont: includes Bridport, Bascom, Cutting, and Shelburne carbonates.
Beekmantown Group (in part) (Cambrian): Beekmantown Group (in part) - In Champlain Valley: Whitehall Formation-dolostone, limestone (with Cryptozoon reefs); Ticonderoga Formation-dolostone (locally cherty), sandstone. In Vermont: Clarendon Springs Dolostone; Danby Formation-sandstone, quartzite, dolostone.
Black River Group (Middle Ordovician): Black River Group - Chaumont Limestone-chert; Lowville Limestone; Pamelia Dolostone.
Black River Group (Middle Ordovician): Black River Group - In Black River Valley: Chaumont Limestone-locally cherty; Lowville Limestone; Pamelia Formation-dolostone, shale, arkose. In Champlain Valley: Amsterdam, Isle La Motte, and Lowville Limestones: Pamelia Dolostone.
Briarcliff Dolostone and Pine Plains Formation (Cambrian): Briarcliff Dolostone and Pine Plains Formation - Briarcliff -l ocally cherty; Pines Plains - dolostone, shale, oolite.
Briarcliff Dolostone and Pine Plains Formation (Cambrian): Briarcliff Dolostone and Pine Plains Formation - Columbia County: Pine Plains-dolostone, oolite, shale.
Camillus and Syracuse Formations (Upper Silurian): Camillus and Syracuse Formations - shale, dolostone, gypsum, salt.
Camillus, Syracuse, and Vernon Formations (Upper Silurian): Camillus, Syracuse, and Vernon Formations - shale, dolostone, salt, and gypsum.
Clinton Group (Lower Silurian): Decew Dolostone, Rochester Shale, Irondequoit and Merriton Limestones.
Cobleskill Limestone (Upper Silurian): Cobleskill Limestone - Bertie and Camillus Formations-dolostone, shale.
Cobleskill Limestone (Upper Silurian): Cobleskill Limestone; Bertie, Camillus, and Syracuse Formations - shale, dolostone; Brayman Shale.
Copake and Halcyon Lake Formations, Rochdale Limestone (Lower Ordovician): Copake and Halcyon Lake Formations, Rochdale Limestone - Columbia County: Copake Formation-limestone, dolostone; Halcyon Lake Formation-chert, calc-dolostone.
Copake and Rochdale Formations (Lower Ordovician): Copake and Rochdale Formations - Copake Formation-limestone, dolostone, siltstone; Rochdale Formation-limestone, dolostone; Halcyon Lake Dolostone-locally cherty.
Decew Dolostone and Rochester Shale (Lower Silurian): Decew Dolostone and Rochester Shale
Decew Dolostone and Rochester Shale (Lower Silurian): Decew Dolostone and Rochester Shale
Helderberg Group (Lower Devonian): Helderberg Group - Coeymans and Manlius Limestones; Rondout Dolostone.
Helderberg Group (Lower Devonian): Helderberg Group - West of Albany: Alsen, Becraft, New Scotland, Kalkberg, Coeymans, and Manlius Limestones; Rondout Dolostone. South of Albany: Port Ewen, Alsen thru Manlius Limestones; Rondout Dolostone.
Iberville Shale (in Vermont) (Middle Ordovician): Iberville Shale (in Vermont)
Irondequoit Limestone thru Kodak Sandstone (Lower Silurian): Irondequoit Limestone thru Kodak Sandstone - includes: Irondequoit Limestone, Rockway Dolostone, Hickory Corners Limestone, Neahga Shale, and Kodak Sandstone.
Irondequoit Limestone thru Kodak Sandstone (Lower Silurian): Irondequoit Limestone thru Kodak Sandstone - includes: Irondequoit Limestone, Williamson Shale; Wolcott Furnace Hematite; Wolcott Limestone; Sodus Shale; Bear Creek Shale; Wallington Limestone; Furnaceville Hematite; Maplewood Shale; Kodak Sandstone.
Lockport Group (Upper Silurian): Lockport Group - Oak Orchard and Penfield Dolostones; both replaced eastwardly by Sconondoa Formation-limestone, dolostone.
Lockport Group (Upper Silurian): Lockport Group - consists of: Guelph, Oak Orchard, Eramosa, and Goat Island Dolostones; Gasport Limestone-local bioherms.
Port Ewen thru Manlius Limestone, Rondout Dolostone, undifferentiated. (Upper Silurian - Lower Devonian): Port Ewen thru Manlius Limestone, Rondout Dolostone, undifferentiated.
Poultney Formation ("A" Member) (Cambrian): Poultney Formation ("A" Member) - north of Troy: shale, limestone; Hatch Hill Formation-shale, dolostone; West Castleton Formation-shale, limestone, conglomerate.
Poultney Formation ("A" Member) (Cambrian): Poultney Formation ("A" Member) - shale, limestone; Hatch Hill Formation-shale, dolostone; West Castleton Formation-shale, limestone, conglomerate.
Rondout Formation (Upper Silurian): Rondout Formation - dolostone, limestone; Binnewater Sandstone; High Falls Shale; Warwarsing Limestone; Decker Limestone; Bossardville Limestone; Poxono Island Formation-shale, dolostone.
Stissing Formation (Cambrian): Stissing Formation - dolostone, shale.
Syracuse Formation (Upper Silurian): Syracuse Formation - dolostone, shale, gypsum, salt.
Theresa Formation (Cambrian - Lower Ordovician): Theresa Formation - dolostone, sandstone (Chateauguay in Quebec).
Theresa (Galway) Formation (Cambrian): Theresa (Galway) Formation - dolostone, sandstone, shale.
Undifferentiated Lower Devonian and Silurian rocks (Lower Devonian - Silurian): Undifferentiated Lower Devonian and Silurian rocks - in northern Ulster County: Port Ewen thru Manlius Limestones; Rondout Dolostone; Binnewater Sandstone; High Falls Shale. In Orange County: Kanhouse Sandstone; Woodbury Creek Formation-shale, sandstone; Esopus Shale; Connelly Conglomerate; Central Valley Sandstone; New Scotland Limestone thru Rondout Dolostone; Decker Limestone; Poxono Island Formation-shale, dolostone; Longwood Shale; Green Pond Conglomerate.
Vernon Formation (Upper Silurian): Vernon Formation - shale, dolostone.
Wappinger Group (Cambrian - Lower Ordovician): Wappinger Group - (including Fishkill limestone and dolostone): Copake Formation ?-limestone, dolostone; Rochdale Formation-limestone, dolostone; Halcyon Lake Dolostone-locally cherty; Briarcliff Dolostone; Pine Plains Formation-dolostone, shale, oolite; Stissing Formation-dolostone, shale.
Winooski Dolostone, Monkton Quartzite, and Dunham (Rutland) Dolostone (Cambrian): Winooski Dolostone, Monkton Quartzite, and Dunham (Rutland) Dolostone - in Vermont.
Winooski Dolostone, Monkton Quartzite, and Dunham (Rutland) Dolostone (Cambrian): Winooski Dolostone, Monkton Quartzite, and Dunham (Rutland) Dolostone

Ohio

Cedarville, Springfield, and Euphemia Dolomites, Undivided (Silurian): Cedarville, Springfield, and Euphemia Dolomite, Undivided - Cedarville Dolomite, white to gray to blue gray, weathers gray, abundant intercrystalline, moldic, and vuggy porosity, massive bedded, 0 to 100 feet thick. Diagnostic features include porosity, cliff-forming nature of unit, and pentameriid brachiopod fossil zone near contact with Springfield Dolomite. Springfield Dolomite, gray to tan, mottled with brownish gray, massive bedded where unweathered and layered bricklike where weathered, 5 to 10 feet thick. Euphemia Dolomite, dolomite to dolomitic limestone, gray to bluish gray, massive bedded, 5 to 15 feet thick. Diagnostic features include large, blocky bedding where weathered and cliff forming nature. Interval ranges from 10 to 125 feet in thickness. Euphemia Dolomite averages 1.6 to 2.6 m in thickness. Environment of deposition was normal marine offshore, free from clastic influence; similar to Cedarville Dolomite. Unconformably overlies Massie Shale. Correlates with Bisher Formation to the southeast. Age is Wenlockian (Ausich, 1987).
Cedarville, Springfield, Euphemia, and Laurel Dolomites; Massie Shale, Undivided (Silurian): Cedarville, Springfield, Euphemia, and Laurel Dolomite; Massie Shale, Undivided - Cedarville Dolomite, white to gray to blue gray weathers gray; abundant intercrystalline, moldic, and vuggy porosity, massive bedded, 0 to 100 feet thick. Diagnostic features include porosity, cliff-forming nature of unit, and pentamerid brachiopod fossil zone near contact with Springfield Dolomite. Springfield Dolomite, gray to tan, mottled with brownish gray, massive bedded where unweathered and layered brick-like where weathered, 5 to 10 feet thick. Euphemia Dolomite, dolomite to dolomitic limestone, gray to bluish gray, massive bedded, 5 to 15 feet thick. Diagnostic features include large, blocky bedding where weathered and cliff forming nature. Massie Shale, gray to bluish gray, minor limestone and dolomite beds, calcareous, slakes easily, planar to irregular bedding, thin to thick bedded, 0 to 10 feet thick. Diagnostic feature includes calcareous shale with limestone and dolomite. Laurel Dolomite, gray to tan, weathers brown, argillaceous to nonargillaceous, wavy bedding, thin to medium bedded, 5 to 10 feet thick. Interval ranges from 115 to 140 feet thick. Euphemia Dolomite averages 1.6 to 2.6 m in thickness. Environment of deposition was normal marine offshore, free from clastic influence; similar to Cedarville Dolomite. Unconformably overlies Massie Shale. Correlates with Bisher Formation to the southeast. Age is Wenlockian (Ausich, 1987).
Cincinnati Group as used by Wickstrom (1990) (Ordovician): Cincinnati Group as used by Wickstrom (1990) - Shale, dolomite and limestone, interbedded. Various shades of gray; thin to medium bedded; Data from core holes. Occurs beneath glacial drift.
Clinton and Cataract Groups, Undivided (Silurian): Clinton and Cataract Groups, Undivided - Dolomite, limestone and shale, interbedded. Various shades of gray, olive green, yellow and reddish-gray; laminated to thick bedded; argillaceous, glauconitic, pyritic, ferruginous and/or phosphatic; locally fossiliferous. Data from core holes. Occurs beneath glacial drift.
Columbus Limestone (Devonian): Columbus Limestone - Limestone and dolomite; gray to brown, weathers brown; massive bedding; upper 2/3 fossiliferous, gray limestone, lower 1/3 brown dolomite; 0 to 105 feet thick.
Detroit River Group (Devonian): Detroit River Group - Dolomite; brown to gray; medium to thick bedded; laminated; nodules or interbeds of anhydrite and/or gypsum; basal part becomes sandy dolomite or fine-grained sandstone; as much as 170 feet thick.
Detroit River Group and Columbus Limestone, Undivided (Devonian): Detroit River Group and Columbus Limestone, Undivided - Dolomite, pale yellow-gray to light brown weather brown; thin to massive bedded; fine crystalline; local quartz sand in lower portion.
Drakes, Whitewater and Liberty Formations, Undivided (Ordovician): Drakes, Whitewater and Liberty Formations, Undivided - Drakes Formation; shale(90%) and limestone/dolomite(10%), interbedded; gray and maroon,weathers yellowish gray; planar to irregular, thin to thick bedded; 20 to 30 feet thick. Whitewater Formation, limestone(60%) and shale(40%) interbedded; gray weathers yellowish gray; irregular to wavy, thin to medium bedded; 20 to 80 feet thick. Liberty Formation, limestone(50%) and shale(50%), interbedded; gray weathers yellowish gray; planar to irregular, thin to medium bedded; 20 to 40 feet thick. Interval ranges from 60 to 150 feet in thickness. The Geological Survey of Ohio recognizes the Cincinnati Group proposed by Meek and Worthen (1865), but at this time retains it as an informal term. The unit will be formally reinstated as a lithostratigraphic term after revision of its lower boundary and minor lithologic redescription of its units are completed. The ten formations included in the group are the (ascending) Clays Ferry Formation, the Kope Formation, the Fairview Formation, the Miamitown Shale, the Grant Lake Limestone, the Arnheim Formation, the Waynesville Formation, the Liberty Formation, the Whitewater Formation, and the Drakes Formation. Six members have been identified in the course of field mapping: the Point Pleasant Tongue of the Clays Ferry, the informal Bellevue, Corryville, Mount Auburn, and Straight Creek members of the Grant Lake Limestone, and the Preachersville Member of the Drakes Formation. The Backbone Creek and Elk Creek beds are recognized as excellent stratigraphic marker beds (Shrake and others, 1988).
Dundee Limestone (Devonian): Dundee Limestone - Limestone; olive gray to brown; upper part thin bedded, lower part medium to thick bedded; fossiliferous in upper part becomes cherty dolomite in lower part; as much as 105 feet thick.
Estill Shale (Silurian): Estill Shale - Shale and minor dolomite interbedded, reddish to greenish gray, weathers light gray, planar to irregular bedding, thin to thick bedded, 30 to 180 feet thick. Diagnostic features include dominance of shale and the units susceptibility to be unstable on slopes and cause landslides.
Estill Shale and Drowning Creek Formation, Undivided (Silurian): Estill Shale and Drowning Creek Formation, Undivided - Estill Shale, reddish to greenish gray, weathers light gray, minor interbedded dolomite, planar to irregular bedding, thin to thick bedded, 30 to 180 feet thick. Forms unstable slopes susceptible to landslides. Drowning Creek Formation; dolomite with minor shale; bluish gray to gray weathers yellowish orange; argillaceous and silty in part; planar to lenticular, thin to thick bedded; 20 to 90 feet thick.
Lockport Dolomite (Silurian): Lockport Dolomite - Dolomite, shades of white to medium gray, medium to massive bedded, fine to coarse crystalline; fossiliferous; vuggy.
Massie and Osgood Shales; Dayton and Brassfield Limestones; Laurel Dolomite; Undivided (Silurian): Massie and Osgood Shales; Dayton and Brassfield Limestones; Laurel Dolomite; Undivided - Massie Shale; gray to bluish gray; planar to irregular, thin to thick bedded; calcareous; slakes; minor limestone and dolomite beds; 0 to 10 feet thick. Laurel Dolomite; gray to tan, weathers brown; argillaceous to nonargillaceous; wavy, thin to medium bedded; 5 to 10 feet thick. Osgood Shale, blue gray to gray weathers brown; thin to massive bedded; calcareous with minor limestone and dolomite; slakes and slumps readily in outcrop; 3 to 25 feet thick. Dayton Limestone; gray to bluish-gray weathers grayish-white; medium to thick bedded; fine grained; dolomitic; 5 to 15 feet thick. Brassfield Limestone; white to pink, locally gray to reddish brown; irregular, thin to medium bedded; coarsely crystalline; abundant pelmatozoan fossils; grayish-green glauconitic partings; cliff forming; 20 to 50 feet thick. Interval ranges from 32 to 100 feet in thickness.
Ordovician Undifferentiated (Ordovician): Ordovician Undifferentiated - Shale, dolomite, and limestone, interbedded; various shades of gray; thin to medium bedding, structurally disturbed. Occurs only in Serpent Mound Impact Structure.
Peebles Dolomite, Lilley and Bisher Formations, Undivided (Silurian): Peebles Dolomite, Lilley Formation, Bisher Formation, Undivided - Peebles Dolomite, bluish gray weathers light gray; planar to irregular, thick to massive bedded; 0 to 120 feet thick; vuggy to cavernous porosity; cliffs former. Lilley Formation, dolomite with minor limestone, chert, and shale; bluish gray to gray weathers reddish gray to gray; planar to irregular, thin to thick bedded; 20 to 80 feet thick; fossiliferous. Bisher Formation, dolomite with minor shale; bluish gray to gray weathers yellowish-orange; argillaceous and silty in part; planar to lenticular, thin to thick bedded; 20 to 90 feet thick; Interval ranges from 80 to 160 feet in thickness. Peebles Dolomite overlies Lilley Formation and underlies Greenfield Dolomite, Hillsboro Sandstone, or Ohio Shale in southern OH. Age is Silurian (Wenlockian and Ludlovian) (Rexroad and Kleffner, 1984). Wenlockian age of the Lilley Formation is based on 10 species of conodont fauna. The Lilley Formation, Lilley-Peebles transition unit, and the Peebles Dolomite compose the upper Niagaran sequence along the east flank of the Cincinnati arch in southern OH. The Lilley consists of two main lithologies: 1) gray to blue gray, fine-grained argillaceous, variably fossiliferous uneven- to thin-bedded dolomite with dolomitic shale partings and 2) light-gray, medium to coarse-grained fossiliferous dolomite. Thickness averages 15 m in Adams and southeastern Highland Cos. and thickens to 24 m in western and northwestern Highland Co. Eustatic sea-level fall in early to middle Wenlockian is proposed as the cause for shoaling during deposition. Underlies Peebles Dolomite and overlies Bisher Formation (Kleffner, M.A., 1990).
Preacherville Member of the Drakes Formation, Waynesville and Arnheim Formation, Undivided (Ordovician): Preacherville Member of the Drakes Formation, Waynesville and Arnheim Formation, Undivided - Shale, limestone, and dolomite, interbedded; gray to maroon in upper part, weathers yellowish-gray to light-gray; planar to irregular to wavy to nodular, thin to thick bedded; shale increases upward.
Prout Limestone (Devonian): Limestone; olive gray; dolomitic in part; hard, siliceous; irregular bedding; pyrite, glauconite and phosphatic bone fragments at upper contact; 0 to 9 feet thick. Devonian (Givetian) Prout Limestone in OH contains corals superficially similar to those of lower part of Jaycox Shale Member of Ludlowville Formation in NY (Oliver, in press).
Salina Group (Silurian): Salina Group - Dolomite, gray, yellow-gray to olive-gray, laminated to thin bedded; occasional thin bed and laminae of dark gray shale and anhydrite and/or gypsum; brecciated zones in part.
Traverse Group (Devonian): Traverse Group - Dolomite and shale interbedded with limestone; upper part dolomite; gray to light brown; thin to medium bedded; abundant chert; lower part shale interbedded with limestone; olive gray; thin to medium bedded; very fossiliferous; as much as 170 feet thick.
Tymochtee and Greenfield Formations, Undivided (Silurian): Tymochtee and Greenfield Formations, Undivided - Dolomite, olive-gray to yellowish- brown, thin to massive bedded, upper two-thirds commonly contains brownish-black to gray shale laminae; locally developed brecciated zones in lower one third.

Oklahoma

Arbuckle Group and Timbered Hills Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Cambrian-Furongian): CLINTON- Limestone and dolomite; one outlier at southern end of quadrangle, about 1,200 feet thick.
Blaine Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian ): WOODWARD- Alternating cyclic sequence of 3 or 4 massive gypsum beds with red-brown shales, generally with a named dolomite at the base of each gypsum, and a greenish-gray shale at the base of each dolomite. The named unmapped sequence is (ascending) "Cedar Springs Dolomite, Medicine Lodge Gypsum," shale, "Magpie Dolomite, Nescatunga Gypsum," shale, "Altona Dolomite, Shimer Gypsum," shale, and"Haskew Gypsum" at top. Thickness ranges up to 90 feet, with the shales being thinner northward. CLINTON- "Blaine Formation," Pb, 3 to 4 gypsum and dolomite beds, about 100 to 200 feet thick, separated by reddish-brown shale. Gradational southward and eastward into Chickasha Formation. OKLAHOMA CITY- Mostly thin gypsums with thin dolomites below each gypsum, interbedded with red-brown shale; grades southward into "Chickasha Formation". Thickness, 50 to 75 feet. (El Reno Group)
Butterfly Dolomite + Signal Mountain Limestone + Royer Dolomite and Fort Sill Limestone (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Cambrian-Furongian): ARDMORE-SHERMAN- Limestone, gray, fine-grained, gradational eastward into tan to pink fine- to coarse-grained dolomites; thickness, 570 to 1,600 feet, decreasing eastward. (Arbuckle Group) Occurs in the ARBUCKLE MTNS
Chattanooga + Fernvale + Fite + Tyner + Burgen + Cotter Formations (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Early Ordovician-Middle(?) Ordovician-Late(?) Silurian(?) Devonian(?) Carboniferous Mississippian-Early(?) Mississippian-Middle(?) Mississippian-Late): TULSA- "Chattanooga Formation," shale and minor sandstone. "Fernvale Formation," limestone. "Fite Formation," limestone "Tyner Formation," shale and dolomite "Burgen Sandstone," sandstone and minor dolomite and shale. "Cotter Formation," dolomite and minor sandstone.
Cloud Chief Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian ): WOODWARD- Red-brown and greenish-gray shale and siltstone with some orange-brown fine-grained sandstone and siltstone. At base are two or more thin, pink to maroon to greenish-gray dolomite beds and (or) gypsum beds ("Moccasin Creek Bed") eroding into a mappable escarpment. About 25 feet above the base is a white to light-gray dolomite ("Day Creek Bed") not mapped. Thickness ranges up to 160 feet, with top eroded in many places. CLINTON- Reddish-brown to orange-brown shale, interbedded with siltstone and sandstone in the middle part and some dolomite and much gypsum in lower part; thickness about 400 feet, thinning northward to about 175 feet. The "Moccasin Creek Gypsum Member" is at the base. LAWTON- Represented in this area by the "Moccasin Creek Gypsum Member," which is about 30 feet (9 m) thick.
Cool Creek and McKenzie Hill Formations (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Early): LAWTON- "Cool Creek Formation" and "McKenzie Hill Formation," Ocm, limestone and conglomerate with abundant quartz sand and cherty zones; thickness, approximately 2,000 feet (600 m). (Upper part of Arbuckle Group) ARDMORE-SHERMAN- Limestone, gray to tan, fine-grained, cherty, gradational eastward into dolomites and sandstones; thickness, 1,500 to 2,300 feet, decreasing eastward. (Arbuckle Group) Occurs in the ARBUCKLE MTNS
Dog Creek Shale (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian ): WOODWARD- Red-brown shale and silty shale, with gypsum, dolomite, and orange-brown sandstone. In upper part are many thin,dense light-gray dolomite beds, the basal one of which is named "Southard Bed" (unmapped); in lower part is much satin-spar gypsum with a greenish-gray dolomite at top termed "Watonga Bed" (unmapped). Thickness ranges from 30 feet or less at Kansas border to 100 feet in southern part of area. CLINTON- "Dog Creek Shale," Pdc, reddish-brown shale with thin beds of siltstone and dolomite; thickness, about 220 feet; gradational eastward into the Chickasha Formation. OKLAHOMA CITY- Mostly red-brown silty shale and some fine-grained sandstone. Contains one or two layers of thin dolomite (or gypsum) in lower part; basal part grades southward into "Chickasha Formation". Thickness averages about 200 feet. (El Reno Group) LAWTON- "Dog Creek Shale," Pdc, reddish-brown silty shale, 85 to 190 feet (26 to 58 m) thick. (El Reno Group) ARDMORE-SHERMAN- Shale, red-brown, blocky, silty, weakly indurated, gradational southward into "Chickasha Formation;" thickness, 0 to about 130 feet. (El Reno Group)
Elm Fork Member of Blaine Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian ): LAWTON- "Elm Fork Member," Pbe, of the Blaine Formation contains 3 dolomite-gypsum sequences with a total thickness of 80 to 110 feet (24 to 34 m).
El Reno Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian ): CLINTON- Primarily evaporites and reddish-brown shale, with deltaic clastics to the southeast. Where separate formations have not been distinguished, the "El Reno Group" is mapped as Per; El Reno Group. Includes: "Dog Creek Shale," Pdc, reddish-brown shale with thin beds of siltstone and dolomite; thickness, about 220 feet; gradational eastward into the Chickasha Formation. "Blaine Formation," Pb, 3 to 4 gypsum and dolomite beds, about 100 to 200 feet thick, separated by reddish-brown shale. Gradational southward and eastward into Chickasha Formation. "Flowerpot Shale," Pf, reddish-brown shale containing several salt and gypsum beds in the upper part. Thickness, about 300 to 450 feet; gradational southward and eastward into Chickasha Formation and Duncan Sandstone. "Cedar Hill Sandstone," Pch, greenish-gray sandstone and reddish-brown shales; thickness, about 180 feet; gradational southward into Duncan Sandstone. "Chickasha Formation," Pc, reddish-brown to maroon mudstone conglomerate with some shale, silstone, and fine- to coarse-grained sandstone; thickness, about 600 feet; gradational northward and westward into the Flowerpot Shale and the Blaine Formation and westward into Dog Creek Shale. "Duncan Sandstone," Pd, light-gray and reddish-brown, cross-bedded, fine-grained sandstone and mudstone conglomerate with some interbedded yellowish-gray and reddish-brown shales; thickness, about 200 feet; gradational into the Cedar Hills Sandstone northward and into the Flowerpot Shale northward and westward. LAWTON- Primarily evaporites and reddish-brown shale, with deltaic clastics to the east. In the eastern part of the quadrangle, separate formations have not been distinguished, and the "El Reno Group" is mapped as Per; in the western part of the quadrangle, the group has been mapped as four separate formations. "El Reno Group undifferentiated," Per, in northeastern part of the quadrangle, includes "Chickasha Formation" sandstone, shale, and siltstone, 400 to 580 feet (120 to 180 m) thick-and underlying "Duncan Sandstone" (equivalent to San Angelo Sandstone)-sandstone with some shale, 100 to 250 feet (30 to 76 m) thick.
Flowerpot Shale (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian ): WOODWARD- Red-brown silty shale with some thin gypsum and dolomite beds in upper 50 feet and fine-grained sandstones in upper part to north. The middle and upper parts contain 50 feet or more of rock salt in the immediate subsurface, giving origin to the Ferguson Salt Plain in Blaine County and the Big and Little Salt Plains in Woods and Harper Counties on the Cimarron River. Thickness ranges from 180 feet in north part to 430 feet in south part. The "Chickasha Formation" (Pc) is a deltaic tongue of red-brown to greenish-gray to orange-brown cross-bedded mudstone conglomerate, siltstone, shale, and fine-grained sandstone, about 30 feet thick, in the middle of the Flowerpot Shale, pinching out northward. CLINTON- "Flowerpot Shale," Pf, reddish-brown shale containing several salt and gypsum beds in the upper part. Thickness, about 300 to 450 feet; gradational southward and eastward into Chickasha Formation and Duncan Sandstone. OKLAHOMA CITY- Mostly red-brown silty clay shale with stringers of gypsum (satin spar and selenite); grades southward into "Chickasha Formation". Thickness, 20 to 40 feet. (El Reno Group) LAWTON- "Flowerpot Shale," Pf, reddish-brown and greenish-gray shale, interbedded with greenish-gray siltstone; thickness, about 175 to 195 feet (53 to 59 m).
Kindblade Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Early): ARDMORE-SHERMAN- Limestone, gray to tan, fine-grained, gradational eastward into tan fine- to coarse-grained dolomite; some tan to gray sandstone and shale; thickness, 1,875 to 3,000 feet, decreasing eastward. (Arbuckle Group) Individual Fm description not found. Occurs in the ARBUCKLE MTNS
Lower part of Arbuckle Group and Timbered Hills Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Cambrian-Furongian): LAWTON- Limestone, dolomite, siltstone, sandstone, conglomerate, and shale, with glauconitic and hematitic zones; thickness, 1,200 to 2,000 feet (370 to 600 m), faulted in isolated areas. Lower part of "Arbuckle Group" includes "Signal Mountain Formation, Royer Dolomite," and "Fort Sill Limestone; Timbered Hills Group" includes "Honey Creek Formation" and "Reagan Sandstone."
Marlow Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian ): WOODWARD- Orange-brown fine-grained sandstone and siltstone, with some interbedded red-brown shale and silty shale in upper part and some thin gypsum beds at base, about 35 feet above base, and at top. The upper two gypsum and (or) dolomite beds are generally pink to maroon and less than 1 foot thick; they may erode into mappable escarpments about 20 feet apart, being named "Emanuel Bed" at top (mapped) and "Relay Creek Bed" 15 to 20 feet below the top (not mapped). In places the basal Marlow is a greenish-gray medium-grained sandstone. In Woods and Woodward Counties, the "Doe Creek Lentil" (Pmd) is a coarse-grained calcareous sandstone with algal clumps and invertebrate fossils, ranging up to 70 feet thick from the base of the Marlow to the Relay Creek Bed, cropping out in a narrow band of high hills striking northeast. Thickness is about 120 feet, with top eroded at many places. CLINTON- "Marlow Formation," Pm, orange-brown, fine-grained sandstone and siltstone, about 100 to 130 feet thick, thinning northward. This formation has 2 gypsum and (or) dolomite beds in upper 20 feet--the "Emanuel Bed" (at top) and the "Relay Creek Bed" (20 feet below top). Two thin, pale shales occur; the first is 1 foot below the top ("Gracemont") and the second is 55 feet above the base (unnamed). OKLAHOMA CITY- Mostly orange-brown fine-grained gypsiferous sandstone, with some red-brown shale. Contains 10 feet of calcitic sandstone lenses near middle and 2 thin dolomites (or gypsums) at top. Exposed thickness, about 50 feet (top 50 to 75 feet eroded). (Whitehorse Group) LAWTON- "Marlow Formation," Pm, very fine-grained sandstone with some silty shale; thickness, about 90 to 130 feet (27 to 40 m); contains 2 thin gypsum and (or) dolomite beds in upper 20 feet (6 m)-the "Emanuel Bed" (at top) and the "Relay Creek Bed" (20 feet below top). (Whitehorse Group) ARDMORE-SHERMAN- Sandstone, orange-brown, fine- to medium-grained, moderately indurated, with "Verden Sandstone Lentil," Pmv, 10 feet thick near middle, and "Relay Creek" and "Emanuel" dolomite and gypsum beds at top; thickness, 105 to 135 feet. (Whitehorse Group)
Morrison Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Jurassic-Late ): CIMARRON- Varicolored fine-grained sandstone, limestone, dolomite, shale, and conglomerate 0 to 470 +/- feet thick.
Permian rocks undifferentiated (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian): TEXAS- Red to dark reddish-brown shale, sandstone, and siltstone. Gypsum occurs in all rock units as a cementing agent, as tiny flakes, as thin irregular veinlets, and as discontinuous beds ranging from less than an inch to more than 30 feet thick. Maximum thickness exceeds 2,000 feet. BEAVER- Red shale, sandstone, and siltstone, are predominant rocks with lesser amounts of limestone, dolomite, gypsum, and salt. The undifferentiated Permian rocks include the Whitehorse Group, the Cloud Chief Formation, and the Quartermaster Formation; also included are local outcrops in the southwestern part of the county, which maybe Triassic in age, 3,800 feet thick
Rush Springs Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian ): WOODWARD- Orange-brown fine-grained sandstone, commonly crossbedded, with some interbedded red-brown shale, silty shale, and gypsum beds. In southern part of area, about 30 feet below top is a thin massive gypsum bed ("Weatherford Bed" or "One Horse Bed"), not mapped here. About 100 feet lower is another thin gypsum bed ("Old Crow Bed") not mapped here. Thickness is about 190 feet in southern part and 90 feet near Kansas border, with top eroded in many places. CLINTON- "Rush Springs Formation," Pr, orange-brown, cross-bedded, fine-grained sandstone with some dolomite and gypsum beds. Thickness, about 300 feet, thinning northward to about 186 feet. LAWTON- "Rush Springs Formation," Pr, very fine-grained, cross-bedded sandstone, 136 to 300 feet (41 to 90 m) thick. The "Weatherford Gypsum Bed," Prw, contains gypsum and dolomite and is as much as 60 feet (18 m) thick in the upper part of the Rush Springs. (Whitehorse Group) ARDMORE-SHERMAN- Sandstone, orange-brown, fine- to medium-grained, moderately indurated, with "Weatherford Gypsum Bed," Prw, 2 to 15 feet thick, near top. Thickness, about 280 feet, top eroded (Whitehorse Group)
Timbered Hills Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Cambrian-Furongian): ARDMORE-SHERMAN- "Honey Creek Limestone," above, is gray, fine grained; grades eastward into dolomite; thickness 90 to 250 feet. "Reagan Sandstone," at base, is brown, coarse grained; thickness, 60 to 450 feet. Occurs in the ARBUCKLE MTNS
Undifferentiated, Mississisippian, Devonian, Silurian, and Ordovician (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Early Ordovician-Middle(?) Ordovician-Late(?) Silurian(?) Devonian(?) Carboniferous Mississippian-Early(?) Mississippian-Middle(?) Mississippian-Late): FORT SMITH- Mississisippian, Devonian, Silurian, and Ordovician Rocks, Undifferentiated Mississippian and Devonian. "Chattanooga Shale," shale. Devonian. "Sallisaw Formation," limestone, sandstone, and chert; and "Frisco Formation," limestone. Silurian. "Quarry Mountain Formation," limestone; "Tenkiller Formation," limestone; and "Blackgum Formation," limestone and dolomite. Ordovician. "Sylvan Shale," shale; "Fernvale Limestone," limestone; "Fite Limestone," limestone; "Tyner Formation," shale, sandstone, dolomite, and limestone; "Burgen Sandstone," sandstone and minor shales and limestones; and "Cotter Dolomite," dolomite.
Upper part of Arbuckle Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Early): LAWTON- Predominantly limestone and dolomite, 4,000 feet (1,200 m) thick, faulted in isolated areas. "Upper part of Arbuckle Group undifferentiated," Oua, faulted in isolated areas north of Lawton.
Van Vacter Member of Blaine Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian ): LAWTON- "Van Vacter Member," Pbv, of the Blaine Formation contains 6 dolomite-gypsum-shale sequences with a total thickness of 80 to 105 feet (24 to 32 m).
Weatherford Gypsum Bed of Rush Springs Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian ): CLINTON- The "Weatherford Gypsum Bed," Prw, dolomite and gypsum beds, is about 30 to 60 feet below the top (mapped in southeastern part only). LAWTON- "Weatherford Gypsum Bed," Prw, contains gypsum and dolomite and is as much as 60 feet (18 m) thick in the upper part of the Rush Springs. (Whitehorse Group) ARDMORE-SHERMAN- "Weatherford Gypsum Bed," Prw, 2 to 15 feet thick, near top of Rush Springs Formation
West Spring Creek and Kindblade Formations (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Early): LAWTON- "West Spring Creek Formation" and "Kindblade Formation," Owk, dolomite, dolomitic sandstone, conglomerate, and limestone; thickness, approximately 2,000 feet (600 m). (Upper part of Arbuckle Group). ARDMORE-SHERMAN- Limestone, gray to tan, fine-grained, gradational eastward into tan fine- to coarse-grained dolomite; some tan to gray sandstone and shale; thickness, 1,875 to 3,000 feet, decreasing eastward. (Arbuckle Group) Individual Fm description not found. Occurs in the ARBUCKLE MTNS
West Spring Creek Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Early): ARDMORE-SHERMAN- Limestone, gray to tan, fine-grained, gradational eastward into tan fine- to coarse-grained dolomite; some tan to gray sandstone and shale; thickness, 1,875 to 3,000 feet, decreasing eastward. (Arbuckle Group) Individual Fm description not found Occurs in the ARBUCKLE MTNS
Whitehorse Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian ): CLINTON- Predominantly orange-brown, fine-grained sandstone, the "Whitehorse Group" is mapped as Pwh where separate formations have not been distinguished and as the "Rush Springs Formation" and the "Marlow Formation" where identified. "Rush Springs Formation," Pr, orange-brown, cross-bedded, fine-grained sandstone with some dolomite and gypsum beds. Thickness, about 300 feet, thinning northward to about 186 feet. The "Weatherford Gypsum Bed," Prw, is about 30 to 60 feet below the top (mapped in southeastern part only). "Marlow Formation," Pm, orange-brown, fine-grained sandstone and siltstone, about 100 to 130 feet thick, thinning northward. This formation has 2 gypsum and (or) dolomite beds in upper 20 feet--the "Emanuel Bed" (at top) and the "Relay Creek Bed" (20 feet below top). Two thin, pale shales occur; the first is 1 foot below the top ("Gracemont") and the second is 55 feet above the base (unnamed). The "Verden Sandstone Lentil," Pmv, is a coarse-grained, calcareous, fossiliferous sandstone (2 to 10 feet thick) that occurs in the middle of the Marlow, about 25 feet below the Relay Creek Bed and 85 to 95 feet above the base. LAWTON- Predominantly orange-brown, fine-grained sandstone, the "Whitehorse Group" is mapped as Pwh where separate formations have not been distinguished and as the "Rush Springs Formation" and the "Marlow Formation" where identified. "Whitehorse Group undifferentiated," Pwh, fine-grained sandstone and siltstone as much as 100 feet (30 m) thick in western part of quadrangle, interbedded with gypsum beds 3 to 10 feet (1 to 3 m) thick.

Pennsylvania

Allentown Formation (Cambrian): Allentown Formation - Medium- to medium-dark-gray, thick-bedded dolomite and impure limestone; dark-gray chert stringers and nodules; laminated; oolitic and stromatolitic; some orange-brown-weathering calcareous siltstone at base.
Beekmantown Group (Ordovician): Beekmantown Group - Includes, in descending order, the Pinesburg Station (Ops), Rockdale Run (Orr), and Stonehenge (Os) Formations.
Beekmantown Group (Ordovician): Beekmantown Group - Includes, in descending order, the Ontelaunee (Oo), Epler (Oe), Rickenbach (Ori), and Stonehenge (Os) Formations.
Bellefonte and Axemann Formations, undivided (Ordovician): Bellefonte and Axemann Formations, undivided - Includes, in descending order, the Bellefonte (Obf) and Axemann (Oa) Formations.
Bellefonte Formation (Ordovician): Bellefonte Formation - Medium-gray, brownish-weathering, medium-bedded dolomite and minor sandstone; very fine grained Tea Creek Member above, and crystalline Coffee Run Member below.
Benner Formation through Loysburg Formation, undivided (Ordovician): Benner Formation through Loysburg Formation, undivided - In descending order: Benner Formation--light- to dark-gray, thick-bedded limestone (calcilutite); includes chemically pure Valentine Member (Obv) at top, and, below, the less pure Valley View Member, which contains metabentonite beds--all laterally equivalent to impure limestones of Oak Hall Member; Stover Member at base is dark-gray limestone (calcilutite) having dolomite streaks; Benner is called "Linden Hall" by some workers. Snyder Formation--light- to medium-gray limestone, laminated to medium-bedded; has mud cracks, oolites, and dolomitic layers. Hatter Formation--medium-gray, fossiliferous, argillaceous limestone, laminated and dolomitic. Loysburg Formation--light- to medium-gray, medium-bedded limestone (Clover Member) overlying laminated, alternating limestone, dolomitic limestone, and dolomite (Milroy ["tiger-striped"] Member).
Buffalo Springs Formation (Cambrian): Buffalo Springs Formation - Light-gray to pinkish-gray, finely to coarsely crystalline limestone and interbedded dolomite; numerous siliceous and clayey laminae; stromatolitic limestone beds near top; some thin sandy beds.
Coburn Formation through Loysburg Formation, undivided (Ordovician): Coburn Formation through Loysburg Formation, undivided - Includes, in descending order, the Coburn Formation through Nealmont Formation, undivided (Ocn) and Benner Formation through Loysburg Formation, undivided (Obl).
Conestoga Formation (Ordovician and Cambrian): Conestoga Formation - Light-gray, thin-bedded, impure, contorted limestone having shale partings; conglomeratic at base; in Chester Valley, includes micaceous limestone in upper part, phyllite in middle, and alternating dolomite and limestone in lower part.
Decker Formation through Poxono Island Formation, undivided (Silurian): Decker Formation through Poxono Island Formation, undivided -In descending order: Decker Formation--gray calcareous sandstone having lenses of calcareous conglomerate, siltstone, and shale, and lenses of limestone and dolomite (in Stroudsburg area, includes calcareous shale, limestone, and dolomite of Rondout Formation at top); Bossardville Limestone--gray argillaceous limestone and dolomitic limestone; Poxono Island Formation--thin-bedded dolomite, limestone, and shale; red shale in lower part. This undivided succession is equivalent to Keyser, Tonoloway, and Wills Creek (part) Formations of central Pennsylvania.
Elbrook Formation (Cambrian): Elbrook Formation - Light-colored calcareous shale and silty limestone at top; medium-gray limestone and dolomite in middle; pure, dark limestone at base.
Elbrook Formation (Cambrian): Elbrook Formation - Microcrystalline limestone and, in places, marble; includes subordinate dolomite containing abundant phyllitic layers; occurs in Chester and Montgomery Counties; relation to Elbrook of Cumberland Valley sequence is uncertain.
Epler Formation (Ordovician): Epler Formation - Thick-bedded, medium- to medium-dark-gray, finely crystalline limestone, weathering light gray; yellow dolomitic laminae; interbedded medium-dark-gray, finely crystalline dolomite, weathering yellowish gray; edgewise conglomerate; fossil-fragment and oolitic lenses.
Epler Formation (Ordovician): Epler Formation - Very finely crystalline, light-gray limestone interbedded with gray dolomite; coarsely crystalline limestone lenses present.
Gatesburg Formation (Cambrian): Gatesburg Formation - Gray dolomite, limestone, and sandstone. Includes the Mines Member (CAgm) and four lower members (CAgl).
Keyser Formation through Clinton Group, undivided (Devonian and Silurian): Keyser Formation through Clinton Group, undivided - Same as Keyser-through-Mifflintown (DSkm) interval, plus Clinton Group at base. Clinton includes the following, in descending order: Keefer Formation--fossiliferous sandstone and hematitic, oolitic sandstone and shale; Rose Hill Formation--fossiliferous shale.
Keyser Formation through Mifflintown Formation, undivided (Devonian and Silurian): Keyser Formation through Mifflintown Formation, undivided - In descending order: Keyser Formation--limestone; Tonoloway Formation--limestone and interbedded shale; Wills Creek Formation--interbedded shale, siltstone, limestone, and dolomite; Bloomsburg Formation--grayish-red and greenish-gray shale, siltstone, sandstone, and mudstone; Mifflintown Formation--interbedded shale and limestone.
Ledger Formation (Cambrian): Ledger Formation - Light-gray, locally mottled, massive, pure, coarsely crystalline dolomite; siliceous in middle part.
Leithsville Formation (Cambrian): Leithsville Formation - Medium- to dark-gray, crystalline dolomite, light-olive-gray in places, weathering to light gray and yellowish brown; massive bedded; oolitic; pink to gray, mottled chert and dark-gray chert; thin shale and dolomitic shale interbeds; scattered sand grains; upper part is very shaly.
Limestone fanglomerate (Triassic): Limestone fanglomerate - Yellowish-gray to medium-gray, angular limestone and dolomite pebbles, cobbles, and fragments set in a red, very fine grained quartz matrix; a few shale-clast interbeds.
Lower members of Gatesburg Formation, undivided (Cambrian): Lower members of Gatesburg Formation, undivided - Includes, in descending order: cyclic repetitions of sandstone and dolomite ("upper sandstone'' member); fossiliferous, laminated to massive limestone and dolomite (Ore Hill Member); cyclic repetitions of sandstone and dolomite (''lower sandstone" member); and thick-bedded crystalline dolomite (Stacy Member).
Lower (Middle?) Cambrian rocks, undivided (Cambrian): Lower (Middle?) Cambrian rocks, undivided - Lower Cambrian of Berks County includes tectonic slices of many of the following rock units: Zooks Corner (CAzc), Ledger (CAl), Kinzers (CAk), Vintage (CAv), Antietam (CAa, CAah), and Harpers (CAh, CAah) Formations.
Millbach and Schaefferstown Formations, undivided (Cambrian): Millbach and Schaefferstown Formations, undivided - Includes, in descending order, the Millbach Formation (CAm), and the Schaefferstown Formation--gray limestone containing siliceous and argillaceous laminae; thin bedded.
Millbach Formation (Cambrian): Millbach Formation - Pink to white and gray, finely laminated limestone and interbedded finely crystalline dolomite; numerous stromatolitic limestone beds.
Mines Member of Gatesburg Formation (Cambrian): Mines Member of Gatesburg Formation - Gray dolomite containing siliceous "oolites" and chert having cryptozoon stromatolites.
Nittany and Stonehenge/Larke Formations, undivided (Ordovician): Nittany and Stonehenge/Larke Formations, undivided - Includes, in descending order, the Nittany (On) and Stonehenge/Larke (Osl) Formations.
Nittany Formation (Ordovician): Nittany Formation - Medium- to dark-gray, thick-bedded dolomite containing chert and siliceous oolites.
Onondaga Formation through Poxono Island Formation, undivided (Devonian and Silurian): Onondaga Formation through Poxono Island Formation, undivided - In descending order: Onondaga Formation--gray calcareous, sandy shale; Ridgeley Formation--brown sandstone; Rondout Formation--gray interbedded limestone, dolomite, and shale; Decker Formation--gray calcareous sandstone, and Andreas Red Beds at top; Bossardville Limestone--gray, mud-cracked shaly limestone; Poxono Island Formation--olive-gray, calcareous and dolomitic shale, siltstone, and sandstone.
Ontelaunee Formation (Ordovician): Ontelaunee Formation - Medium-dark-gray, finely crystalline dolomite, massive to finely laminated; weathers grayish yellow; thick-bedded, dark-gray chert at base.
Ontelaunee Formation (Ordovician): Ontelaunee Formation - Light- to dark-gray, very finely to medium-crystalline dolomite containing interbeds of light-gray limestone; interbedded nodular, dark-gray chert at base.
Pinesburg Station Formation (Ordovician): Pinesburg Station Formation - Light-colored, thick-bedded, finely laminated dolomite; some limestone.
Richland Formation (Cambrian): Richland Formation - Gray dolomite, in part oolitic, interbedded with medium-gray limestone and dark-gray oolitic chert.
Rickenbach Formation (Ordovician): Rickenbach Formation - Medium- to dark-gray, coarsely crystalline dolomite in lower part; medium- to medium-light-gray, finely crystalline dolomite in upper part; chert lenses, beds, and nodules.
Rickenbach Formation (Ordovician): Rickenbach Formation - Gray, very finely to coarsely crystalline, laminated dolomite; dark-gray chert in irregular beds, stringers, and nodules; bands of quartz sand grains in lower half.
Rockdale Run Formation (Ordovician): Rockdale Run Formation - Mostly limestone; some dolomite interbeds; some chert near middle and top; stromatolitic limestone in middle; pinkish marbleoid limestone and chert at base.
Snitz Creek and Buffalo Springs Formations, undivided (Cambrian): Snitz Creek and Buffalo Springs Formations, undivided - Includes, in descending order, the Snitz Creek (CAsc) and Buffalo Springs (CAbs) Formations. Snitz Creek Formation - thick-bedded. medium- to coarsely crystalline dolomite; in part oolitic, containing laminated limestone and sandstone interbeds. Buffalo Springs Formation - light-gray to pinkish-gray, finely to coarsely crystalline limestone and interbedded dolomite; numerous siliceous and clayey laminae; stromatolitic limestone beds near top; some thin sandy beds.
Snitz Creek Formation (Cambrian): Snitz Creek Formation - Thick-bedded, medium- to coarsely crystalline dolomite, in part oolitic, containing laminated limestone and sandstone interbeds.
Stonehenge Formation (Ordovician): Stonehenge Formation - Medium-light-gray to medium-gray, finely crystalline, thick-bedded limestone, containing dark siliceous laminae, edgewise conglomerate beds, and fossil-fragment lenses; dolomite beds increase in number eastward.
Stonehenge/Larke Formation (Ordovician): Stonehenge/Larke Formation - Medium-gray, medium-bedded to laminated, fossiliferous, oolitic limestone containing edgewise conglomerate; to the west, Stonehenge is laterally equivalent to medium- to dark-gray, coarsely crystalline dolomite (Larke).
St. Paul Group (Ordovician): St. Paul Group - Very finely crystalline, "birdseye" limestone at top and base, granular fossiliferous limestone, black chert, and dolomite in middle.
Tomstown Formation (Cambrian): Tomstown Formation - Massive dolomite containing thin shaly interbeds.
Vintage Formation (Cambrian): Vintage Formation - Dark-gray, knotty, argillaceous dolomite; impure light-gray marble at base locally.
Warrior Formation (Cambrian): Warrior Formation - Gray, thin- to medium-bedded, fossiliferous, cyclic limestone bearing stromatolites; interbedded with thick-bedded crystalline dolomite and some sandstone.
Waynesboro Formation (Cambrian): Waynesboro Formation - Interbedded red to purple shale and sandstone and some beds of dolomite and impure limestone.
Wills Creek Formation (Silurian): Wills Creek Formation - Variegated gray, grayish-red, yellowish-gray and greenish-gray, interbedded calcareous shale, siltstone, shaly limestone, and dolomite; passes into Bloomsburg Formation in the southeast; not present east of Harrisburg.
Wills Creek Formation through Mifflintown Formation, undivided (Silurian): Wills Creek Formation through Mifflintown Formation, undivided - Includes, in descending order, the Wills Creek Formation (Swc) and Bloomsburg and Mifflintown Formations, undivided (Sbm).
Zooks Corner Formation (Cambrian): Zooks Corner Formation - Medium-gray, finely crystalline dolomite; silty to sandy, containing numerous siliceous to argillaceous laminae.
Zullinger Formation (Cambrian): Zullinger Formation - Interbanded and interlaminated limestone and dolomite, thin- to thick-bedded; stromatolitic limestone; several thin, local quartz sandstone beds.

South Dakota

Madison Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Devonian Carboniferous Mississippian): Includes: Pahasapa Limestone (Mississippian)-White, light-gray to tan, fine- to medium-crystalline limestone and dolomite containing brown to gray chert. Solution features including collapse breccia, sinkholes, and caves are prevalent. Thickness 300-630 ft (91-192 m). Englewood Formation (Mississippian to Dovonian)- Pink, lavender to light-gray, thin- to medium-bedded, finely crystalline, argillaceous, dolomitic limestone. Thickness 30-63 ft (9-19 m).
Minnelusa Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian Permian): Variegated, yellow to red, gray to brown, pink to purple, and black, interbedded sandstone, siltstone, shale, limestone, dolomite, calcarenite, chert and brecciated beds. Thickness 394-1,175 ft (120-358 m).
Pahasapa Limestone, Englewood Formation, Whitewood Limestone, Winnipeg Formation, and Deadwood Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Cambrian Ordovician(?) Silurian(?) Devonian(?) Carboniferous Mississippian): Note: see individual descriptions
Whitewood Limestone, Winnipeg Formation, and Deadwood Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Cambrian Ordovician): Whitewood Limestone (Ordovician)- Mottled, tan, gray to lavender, fine- to medium-crystalline, sparsely fossiliferous limestone and dolomite. Thickness up to 70 ft (21 m). Winnipeg Formation (Ordovician)- Grat and light-green, fissile shale, and tan, calcareous siltstone, sandy shale, and limestone lenses. Thickness up to 110 ft (34 m). Deadwood Formation (Ordovician to Cambrian)- Variegated, yellow to red, brown, gray, and green, glauconitic, conglomerate, sandstone, shale, dolomitic limestone, and dolomite. Thickness 4-400 ft (1-122 m).

Tennessee

Chepultepec Dolomite (Ordovician): Chepultepec Dolomite - Light-gray, fine-grained, well-bedded dolomite, moderately cherty; fine-grained limestone locally in upper part; quartz sandstone beds at base. Average thickness about 800 feet.
Chepultepec Dolomite (Ordovician): Chepultepec Dolomite - Light-gray, fine-grained, well-bedded dolomite, moderately cherty; fine-grained limestone locally in upper part; quartz sandstone beds at base. Thickness about 800 feet.
Conasauga Group (Cambrian): Conasauga Group - Mostly shale northwest of a line connecting Knoxville and Tazewell; dominantly dolomite with minor shale southeast of a line from Newport to Kingsport; between these lines it consists of six formations. Thickness about 2,000 feet.
Conasauga Group, includes Maynardville Limestone, Nolichucky Shale, Honaker Dolomite, Maryville Limestone, Rogersville Shale, Rutledge Limestone, Pumpkin Valley Shale, Rome Formation, Shady Dolomite (Cambrian): Conasauga Group, includes Maynardville Limestone, Nolichucky Shale, Honaker Dolomite, Maryville Limestone, Rogersville Shale, Rutledge Limestone, Pumpkin Valley Shale, Rome Formation, Shady Dolomite
Conasauga Group, including Maynardville Limestone, Nolichucky Shale, the Maryville, Rogersville, and Rutledge Formations, Pumpkin Valley Shale, Rome Formation, and Shady Dolomite (Cambrian): Conasauga Group - Mostly shale northwest of a line connecting Etowah and Bearden (Knoxville); to the east it consists of the six formations at right [Cmn, Maynardville Limestone. Ccl including Cn, Nolichucky Shale, Cmr Maryville, Rogersville, and Rutledge Formations, and Pumpkin Valley Shale; Cr, Rome Formation, and Cs, Shady Dolomite. Thickness about 2,000 feet.
Conococheague Limestone (Ordovician): Conococheague Limestone - Well-bedded, ribboned (silt and dolomite), dark-gray limestone; interbeds of fine-grained, light- to dark-gray dolomite; sparingly cherty; cryptozoans typical. Thickness about 1,500 feet.
Copper Ridge Dolomite (Cambrian): Copper Ridge Dolomite - Coarse, dark-gray, knotty dolomite, asphaltic in places, with much gray, medium-grained, well- bedded dolomite; abundant chert; cryptozoans typical. Thickness about 1,000 feet.
Copper Ridge Dolomite (Ordovician): Copper Ridge Dolomite - Coarse, dark-gray, knotty dolomite, asphaltic in places; with much gray, medium-grained, well- bedded dolomite; abundant chert; cryptozoans typical. Thickness about 1,000 feet.
Honaker Dolomite (Cambrian): Honaker Dolomite - Dark-gray, medium-bedded dolomite with minor dark limestone beds; locally cherty; cryptozoans abundant in places. Thickness about 1,500 feet.
Jonesboro Limestone (Ordovician): Jonesboro Limestone - Dark bluish-gray, ribboned (silt and dolomite) limestone; numerous interbeds of dark-gray dolomite; quartz sandstone at base. Erosional unconformity at top. Thickness about 2,000 feet.
Jonesboro Limestone, Newala Formation, Mascot Dolomite, Kingsport Formation, Longview Dolomite, and Chepultepec Dolomite (Ordovician): Jonesboro Limestone - Dark bluish-gray, ribboned (silt and dolomite) limestone; numerous interbeds of dark-gray dolomite; quartz sandstone at base. Erosional unconformity at top. Thickness about 2,000 feet; Newala Formation inlcuding Mascot Dolomite - Light-gray, fine-grained, well-bedded cherty dolomite; mottled (red and green) dolomite characteristic; interbeds of bluish-gray limestone in upper part; chert-matrix quartz sandstone at base. Erosional unconformity at top. Thickness 350 to 800 feet; and Kingsport Formation - Gray, fine-grained, sparingly cherty dolomite with basal dense, gray limestone sequence. Thickness about 250 feet; Longview Dolomite - Siliceous, gray, fine-grained, medium-bedded dolomite; interbeds of gray limestone in upper part. Thickness about 300 feet; Chepultepec Dolomite - Light-gray, fine-grained, well-bedded dolomite, moderately cherty; fine-grained limestone locally in upper part; quartz sandstone beds at base. Thickness about 800 feet.
Kingsport Formation (Ordovician): Kingsport Formation - Gray, fine-grained, sparingly cherty dolomite with basal dense, gray limestone sequence. Thickness about 250 feet.
Kingsport Formation (Ordovician): Kingsport Formation - Gray, fine-grained, sparingly cherty dolomite with basal dense, gray limestone sequence. Thickness about 250 feet.
Knox Group (Ordovician to Cambrian): Knox Group - Siliceous, well-bedded dolomite and magnesian limestone in the central and northwest belts of the Valley. To the southeast, much dark limestone is present and the rocks are only sparsely cherty. Thickness about 3,000 feet.
Knox Group, including Jonesboro Limestone, Newala Formation, Mascot Dolomite, Kingsport Formation, Longview Dolomite, Chepultepec Dolomite, Copper Ridge Dolomite, Conococheague Limestone (Ordovician to Cambrian): Knox Group, including (Ojb) Jonesboro Limestone - Dark bluish-gray, ribboned (silt and dolomite) limestone; numerous interbeds of dark-gray dolomite; quartz sandstone at base. Erosional unconformity at top. Thickness about 2,000 feet; (On) Newala Formation; (Oma) Mascot Dolomite - Light-gray, fine-grained, well-bedded cherty dolomite; mottled (red and green) dolomite characteristic; interbeds of bluish-gray limestone in upper part; chert-matrix quartz sandstone at base. Erosional unconformity at top. Thickness 350 to 800 feet; (Ok) Kingsport Formation - Gray, fine-grained, sparingly cherty dolomite with basal dense, gray limestone sequence. Thickness about 250 feet; (Olv) Longview Dolomite - Siliceous, gray, fine-grained, medium-bedded dolomite; interbeds of gray limestone in upper part. Thickness about 300 feet; (Oc) Chepultepec Dolomite - Light-gray, fine-grained, well-bedded dolomite, moderately cherty; fine-grained limestone locally in upper part; quartz sandstone beds at base. Thickness about 800 feet; (Ccr) Copper Ridge Dolomite - Coarse, dark-gray, knotty dolomite, asphaltic in places; with much gray, medium-grained, well- bedded dolomite; abundant chert; cryptozoans typical. Thickness about 1,000 feet.; (Ccc) Conococheague Limestone - Well-bedded, ribboned (silt and dolomite), dark-gray limestone; interbeds of fine-grained, light- to dark-gray dolomite; sparingly cherty; cryptozoans typical. Thickness about 1,500 feet.
Knox Group, including Newala Formation, Mascot Dolomite, Kingsport Formation, Longview Dolomite, Chepultepec Dolomite, and Copper Ridge Dolomite (Ordovician to Cambrian): Knox Group - Siliceous dolomite and magnesian limestone sequence. Thickness 2,500 to 3,000 feet.
Longview Dolomite (Ordovician): Longview Dolomite - Siliceous, gray, fine-grained, medium-bedded dolomite; interbeds of gray limestone in upper part. Thickness about 300 feet.
Longview Dolomite (Ordovician): Longview Dolomite - Siliceous, gray, fine-grained, medium-bedded dolomite; interbeds of gray limestone in upper part. Thickness about 300 feet.
Longview Dolomite and Chepultepec Dolomite (Ordovician): Longview Dolomite - Siliceous, gray, fine-grained, medium-bedded dolomite; interbeds of gray limestone in upper part. Thickness about 300 feet; and Chepultepec Dolomite - Light-gray, fine-grained, well-bedded dolomite, moderately cherty; fine-grained limestone locally in upper part; quartz sandstone beds at base. Thickness about 800 feet.
Maryville Limestone, Rogersville Shale, Rutledge Limestone (Cambrian): Maryville Limestone - Gray, ribboned (silt and dolomite), fine-grained, evenly bedded limestone; intraformational conglomerate and oolitic layers common; clay shale and light-gray dolomite locally. Thickness 300 to 800 feet; Rogersville Shale - Light-green, fissile clay shale; in places limestone (Craig Member) in upper part. Commonly 25 to 80 feet thick; maximum thickness 250 feet; Rutledge Limestone - Medium- to dark-gray, ribboned (silt and dolomite), medium-grained, well-bedded limestone; locally dark-gray, coarse-grained, medium-bedded dolomite in upper part. Thickness 100 to 500 feet.
Maryville, Rogersville, and Rutledge Formations (Cambrian): Maryville, Rogersville, and Rutledge Formations - Maryville and Rutledge are gray limestone, in part oolitic, with gray dolomite locally. Rogersville is green clay shale. Thickness 400 to 1,000 feet.
Mascot Dolomite (Ordovician): Mascot Dolomite - Light-gray, fine-grained, well-bedded cherty dolomite; mottled (red and green) dolomite characteristic; interbeds of bluish-gray limestone in upper part; chert-matrix quartz sandstone at base. Erosional unconformity at top. Thickness 350 to 800 feet.
Mascot Dolomite (Ordovician): Mascot Dolomite - Light-gray, fine-grained, well-bedded cherty dolomite; mottled (red and green) dolomite characteristic; interbeds of bluish-gray limestone in upper part; chert-matrix quartz sandstone at base. Erosional unconformity at top. Thickness 350 to 800 feet.
Maynardville Limestone (Cambrian): Maynardville Limestone - Thick-bedded, bluish-gray, ribboned (silt and dolomite), nodular limestone; light-gray, fine- grained, laminated to thin-bedded, noncherty dolomite in upper part. Thickness 150 to 400 feet.
Maynardville Limestone (Cambrian): Maynardville Limestone - Thick-bedded, bluish-gray, ribboned (silt and dolomite) nodular limestone; light-gray, fine-grained, laminated to thinly bedded, noncherty dolomite in upper part. Thickness 150 to 400 feet.
Maynardville Limestone, Nolichucky Shale, and Honaker Dolomite (Cambrian): Maynardville Limestone - Thick-bedded, bluish-gray, ribboned (silt and dolomite) nodular limestone; light-gray, fine-grained, laminated to thinly bedded, noncherty dolomite in upper part. Thickness 150 to 400 feet; Nolichucky Shale - Pastel-colored (pink, greenish, olive), flaky clay shale; gray, commonly oolitic, shaly limestone lenses; locally stromatolitic limestone layers; thin, blocky siltstone near middle. Thickness 100 feet in the east to 900 feet in the west; Honaker Dolomite - Dark-gray, medium-bedded dolomite with minor dark limestone beds; locally cherty; cryptozoans abundant in places. Thickness about 1,500 feet.
Newala Formation, including Mascot Dolomite and Kingsport Formation (Ordovician): (On) Newala Formation, including (Oma) Mascot Dolomite - Light-gray, fine-grained, well-bedded cherty dolomite; mottled (red and green) dolomite characteristic; interbeds of bluish-gray limestone in upper part; chert-matrix quartz sandstone at base. Erosional unconformity at top. Thickness 350 to 800 feet; and (Ok) Kingsport Formation - Gray, fine-grained, sparingly cherty dolomite with basal dense, gray limestone sequence. Thickness about 250 feet.
Newala Formation, including Mascot Dolomite and Kingsport Formation (Ordovician): Newala Formation includes Mascot Dolomite - Light-gray, fine-grained, well-bedded cherty dolomite; mottled (red and green) dolomite characteristic; interbeds of bluish-gray limestone in upper part; chert-matrix quartz sandstone at base. Erosional unconformity at top. Thickness 350 to 800 feet; and Kingsport Formation - Gray, fine-grained, sparingly cherty dolomite with basal dense, gray limestone sequence. Thickness about 250 feet.
Nolichucky Shale, and Maryville, Rogersville, and Rutledge Formations, and Pumpkin Valley Shale (Cambrian): (Cn) Nolichucky Shale - Pastel-colored (pink, greenish, olive), flaky clay shale; gray, commonly oolitic, shaly limestone lenses; locally stromatolitic limestone layers; thin, blocky siltstone near middle. Thickness 500 feet in the east to 900 feet in the west.; (Cmr) Maryville, Rogersville, and Rutledge Formations - Maryvile and Rutledge are gray limestone, in part oolitic, with gray dolomite locally. Rogersville is green clay shale. Thickness 400 to 1,000 feet. Pumpkin Valley Shale - Dull-brown to maroon shale with numerous interbeds of thin, blocky, sandy siltstone. Thickness 100 to 600 feet.
Ordovician Breccia (Ordovician): Ordovician Breccia - Limestone and dolomite fragments ranging in size from a fraction of an inch to several feet.
Pennington Formation (Mississippian): Pennington Formation - Reddish and greenish shale and siltstone; fine-grained dolomite; dark-gray limestone; and thin-bedded sandstone. Persistent dolomite bed at base. Thickness 150 to 400 feet.
Pennington Formation (Mississippian): Pennington Formation - Reddish and greenish shale and siltstone; fine-grained dolomite; and minor fragmental and oolitic limestone. Thickness 240 to 360 feet.
Rome Formation (Cambrian): Rome Foundation - Variegated (red, green, yellow) shale and siltstone; gray, fine-grained sandstone in middle and west part of Valley and Ridge; abundant limestone and dolomite in east. Thickness about 2,000 feet.
Rutledge Limestone (Cambrian): Rutledge Limestone - Medium- to dark-gray, ribboned (silt and dolomite), medium-grained, well-bedded limestone; locally dark-gray, coarse-grained, medium-bedded dolomite in upper part. Thickness 100 to 500 feet.
Shady Dolomite (Cambrian): Shady Dolomite - Light-gray, well-bedded dolomite with thin- to medium-bedded gray limestone; yellowish-brown residual clays with "jasperoid" diagnostic. Thickness about 1,000 feet.
Shady Dolomite (Cambrian): Shady Dolomite - Light-gray dolomite and thinly bedded limestone with much shaly gray limestone and calcareous gray shale. Thickness about 1,000 feet.
Sneedville Limestone (Devonian to Silurian): Sneedville Limestone - Gray silty limestone and dolomite, minor shale, and fine-grained, greenish-gray sandstone; fossils locally abundant. Thickness 100 to 300 feet.
Unnamed (middle part of Knox Group), including Longview Dolomite and Chepultepec Dolomite (Ordovician): (Olc) Unnamed (middle part of Knox Group) including (Olv) Longview Dolomite - Siliceous, gray, fine-grained, medium-bedded dolomite; interbeds of gray limestone in upper part. Thickness about 300 feet.; and (Oc) Chepultepec Dolomite - Light-gray, fine-grained, well-bedded dolomite, moderately cherty; fine-grained limestone locally in upper part; quartz sandstone beds at base. Average thickness about 800 feet.
Unnamed (upper part of Knox Group), including Newala Formation, Mascot Dolomite, Kingsport Formation, Longview Dolomite, and Chepultepec Dolomite (Ordovician): (Onc) Unnamed (upper part of the Knox Group), including the (On) Newala Formation; (Oma) Mascot Dolomite - Light-gray, fine-grained, well-bedded cherty dolomite; mottled (red and green) dolomite characteristic; interbeds of bluish-gray limestone in upper part; chert-matrix quartz sandstone at base. Erosional unconformity at top. Thickness 350 to 800 feet; (Ok) Kingsport Formation - Gray, fine-grained, sparingly cherty dolomite with basal dense, gray limestone sequence. Thickness about 250 feet. and (Olc) Unnamed (middle part of the Knox Group), including (Olv) Longview Dolomite - Siliceous, gray, fine-grained, medium-bedded dolomite; interbeds of gray limestone in upper part. Thickness about 300 feet; (Oc) Chepultepec Dolomite - Light-gray, fine-grained, well-bedded dolomite, moderately cherty; fine-grained limestone locally in upper part; quartz sandstone beds at base. Average thickness about 800 feet.
Wells Creek Dolomite and Knox Group (Ordovician): Wells Creek Dolomite and Knox Group - Yellowish-gray and light olive-gray dolomite, within partings of grayish-green shale, and pale- orange to yellowish-gray limestone; thin- to thick-bedded, micrograined to coarse-grained. Present only in Wells Creek Basin. Exposed thickness at least 600 feet. (Also mapped with Onc on East-Central Sheet)
Wells Creek Formation and Knox Group (above Copper Ridge Dolomite) (Ordovician): Wells Creek Formation - Gray limestone and dolomite, with angular chert blocks and fragments; and minor shale, mottled red and green, calcareous. Thickness 0 to 50 feet. (Present only in Sequatchie Valley.); and Knox Group (above Copper Ridge Dolomite) - Gray, cherty dolomite and limestone, fine- to medium-grained. Maximum exposed thickness in Sequatchie Valley 600 feet. (Units in Onc are also mapped as OCk on the West-Central Sheet)

Texas

alkali flat deposits (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Quaternary | Holocene): alkali flat deposits
Barnett Formation, Chappel Limestone, Houy, Zesch, Bear Spring, and Stribling Formations, and Pillar Bluff Limestone, undivided (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Devonian Carboniferous Mississippian-Early Mississippian-Middle Mississippian-Late): Barnett Formation, Chappel Limestone, Houy, Zesch, Bear Spring, and Stribling Formations, and Pillar Bluff Limestone, undivided
Blaine Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian [Guadalupe]): Blaine Formation
Bone Spring Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian [Leonard]): Bone Spring Formation
Briggs Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian [Leonard]): Briggs Formation
Capitan Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian [Guadalupe]): Capitan Formation
Cherry Canyon Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian [Guadalupe]): Cherry Canyon Formation
Clear Fork Group (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian [Leonard]): Clear Fork Group
Devils River Limestone (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Early [Comanchean]): Devils River Limestone
Edwards and Comanche Peak Limestones, undivided (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Early): Edwards and Comanche Peak Limestones, undivided
Edwards Limestone (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Early): Edwards Limestone
El Paso Formation and Bliss Sandstone, undivided (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic| Cambrian-Furongian(?) Ordovician-Early): El Paso Formation and Bliss Sandstone, undivided
Fredericksberg Group and Maxon Sandstone, undivided (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Early [Comanchean]): Fredericksberg Group and Maxon Sandstone, undivided
Fredericksburg Group (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Early [Comanchean]): Fredericksburg Group
Fusselman Dolomite (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Silurian): Fusselman Dolomite
Gorman Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic| Ordovician-Early): Gorman Formation
Honeycut Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Early): Honeycut Formation
Hueco Limestone (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian [Wolfcamp]): Hueco Limestone
Montoya Dolomite (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Middle Ordovician-Late): Montoya Dolomite
Mundy Breccia and Castner Limestone, undivided (preCambrian-Proterozoic): Mundy Breccia and Castner Limestone, undivided
Munn Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian [Guadalupe]): Munn Formation
Permian rocks, undivided (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian): Permian rocks, undivided
Quartermaster Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian [Guadalupe]): Quartermaster Formation
Seven Rivers Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian [Guadalupe]): Seven Rivers Formation
Skinner Ranch and Hess Formations, undivided (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian [Wolfcamp]): Skinner Ranch and Hess Formations, undivided
Tansill Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian [Guadalupe]): Tansill Formation
Tanyard Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Early): Tanyard Formation
Tessey Limestone (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian [Ochoa]): Tessey Limestone
Victorio Peak Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian [Leonard]): Victorio Peak Formation
Washita and Fredericksburg Groups, undivided (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Early [Comanchean]): Washita and Fredericksburg Groups, undivided
Wilberns Formation showing San Saba Member (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Cambrian-Furongian): Wilberns Formation showing San Saba Member
Word Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian [Guadalupe]): Word Formation
Yates Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian [Guadalupe]): Yates Formation

Utah

Devonian sedimentary rocks in central Utah (Devonian)
Devonian sedimentary rocks in Logan-Huntsville Allochthon (Devonian)
Devonian sedimentary rocks in Salt Lake City-Coalville-Randolph region (Devonian)
Devonian sedimentary rocks in southewestern Utah (Devonian)
Devonian sedimentary rocks in western Utah (Devonian to Mississippian)
Middle Cambrian shale and carbonate rocks in central Utah (Middle Cambrian)
Middle Cambrian shale and carbonate rocks in Logan-Huntsville Allochthon (Middle Cambrian)
Middle Cambrian shale and carbonate rocks in southwestern Utah (Middle Cambrian)
Middle Cambrian shale and carbonate rocks in western Utah (Middle Cambrian)
Mississippian (1) carbonate rocks in central Utah (Late Devonian to Mississippian)
Mississippian (1) carbonate rocks in southwestern Utah (Mississippian)
Mississippian (2) sedimentary rocks in Uinta Mountains-Uinta Basin region (Mississippian)
Mississippian (2) sedimentary rocks in western Utah (Mississippian)
Mississippian (3) sedimentary rocks in Logan-Huntsville Allochthon (Mississippian)
Ordovician sedimentary rocks in central Utah (Ordovician)
Ordovician sedimentary rocks in Logan-Huntsville Allochthon (Ordovician)
Ordovician sedimentary rocks in western Utah (Ordovician)
Pennsylvanian and Permian sedimentary rocks in southwestern Utah (Pennsylvanian)
Pennsylvanian sedimentary rocks in Uinta Mountains-Uinta Basin region (Pennsylvanian)
Permian (1) sedimentary rocks in southwestern Utah (Early Permian)
Permian (2) sedimentary rocks in central Utah (Permian)
Permian (2) sedimentary rocks in Logan-Huntsville Allochthon (Permian)
Silurian carbonate rocks in central Utah (Late Ordovician to Silurian)
Silurian carbonate rocks in Logan-Huntsville Allochthon (Silurian)
Silurian carbonate rocks in western Utah (Silurian)
Tertiary (1) sedimentary rocks in central Utah (Late Paleocene to Early Eocene)
Tertiary (1) sedimentary rocks in southeastern Utah (Late Paleocene to Early Eocene)
Upper Cambrian carbonate rocks in central Utah (Middle Cambrian to Early Ordovician)
Upper Cambrian carbonate rocks in Logan-Huntsville Allochthon (Middle Cambrian to Early Ordovician)
Upper Cambrian carbonate rocks in Salt Lake City-Coalville-Randolph region (Middle Cambrian to Early Ordovician)
Upper Cambrian carbonate rocks in western Utah (Middle Cambrian to Early Ordovician)

Virginia

Beekmantown Group (Ordovician): Beekmantown Group - Dolomite, limestone, and chert. Includes Pinesburg Station Dolomite, Rockdale Run Formation, Beekmantown Formation, Stonehenge Limestone, and Chepultepec Formation.
Chepultepec and Copper Ridge Formations (Cambrian-Ordovician): Chepultepec and Copper Ridge Formations - Dolomite, minor limestone, chert, and calcareous sandstone.
Conococheague Formation (Cambrian-Ordovician): Conococheague Formation - Limestone, dolomite, and calcareous sandstone.
Conococheague Formation (Cambrian): Conococheague Formation - Limestone, dolomite, and calcareous sandstone.
Elbrook Formation (Cambrian): Elbrook Formation - Dolomite, shale, and minor limestone.
Greenbrier Limestone (Mississippian): Greenbrier Limestone - Limestone, in part cherty, fossiliferous; shale.
Hancock, Rose Hill, and Clinch Formations (Silurian): Hancock, Rose Hill, and Clinch Formations - Limestone and dolomite; dusky-red and green shale and sandstone; and sandstone, shale and conglomerate.
Knox Group (Cambrian-Ordovician): Knox Group - dolostone, limestone, sandstone. Includes the Mascot Dolomite, Kingsport Dolomite, Chepultepec Dolomite, Copper Ridge Dolomite. (Includes: Ob, Omk, Occo, Cco, Occc.)
Lower Ordovician and Upper Cambrian Formations Undivided (Cambrian-Ordovician): Lower Ordovician and Upper Cambrian Formations Undivided - Includes Pinesburg Station Dolomite, Rockdale Run Formation, Beekmantown Formation, Stonehenge Limestone and Conococheague Formation.
Mascot and Kingsport Dolomites (Ordovician): Mascot and Kingsport Dolomites - Dolomite, chert, and minor limestone.
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
Nolichucky and Honaker Formations (Cambrian): Nolichucky and Honaker Formations - Dolomitic shale; dolomite and minor chert.
Nolichucky and Maryville Formations, Rogersville Shale, and Rutledge Formation (Cambrian): Nolichucky and Maryville Formations, Rogersville Shale, and Rutledge Formation - Calcareous shale, limestone, and dolomite.
Rome Formation (Cambrian): Rome Formation - Dusky-red and green shale and siltstone, dolomite, and limestone.
Shady Dolomite (Cambrian): Shady Dolomite - Dolomite.
Tomstown Dolomite (Cambrian): Tomstown Dolomite - Dolomite, in part cherty.
Waynesboro Formation (Cambrian): Waynesboro Formation - Dolomite, dusky-red and green shale, limestone, and sandstone.
Waynesboro Formation and Tomstown Dolomite (Cambrian): Waynesboro Formation and Tomstown Dolomite - Waynesboro Formation: Dolomite, dusky-red and green shale, limestone, and sandstone. Tomstown Dolomite: Dolomite, in part cherty.

Vermont

Bascom Formation, and undifferentiated Luke Hill, Naylor Ledge and Hastings Creek Limestones (Ordovician): Bascom Formation, and undifferentiated Luke Hill, Naylor Ledge and Hastings Creek Limestones - Interbedded dolomite, limestone or marble, calcareous sandstone, quartzite and limestone breccia; irregular dolomitic layers, thin sandy laminae, and slaty or phyllitic partings characterize limestone and marble of lower, middle, and upper parts of the Bascom, respectively; south of West Rutland it includes some of the Chipman formation. The combined Luke Hill, Naylor Ledge, and Hastings Creek, east of Philipsburg thrust, are stratigraphically equivalent to the Bascom.
Brezee Formation (Cambrian): Brezee Formation - Dark gray to black phyllite with beds of blue-gray marble, dark gray dolomite, sandy dolomite, and dolomitic sandstone, in upper part; beds of massive quartzite as much as 20 ft thick occur locally and in places contain pebbles of blue quartz. Phyllites are locally highly albitic.
Bridgeman Hill Formation (Cambrian): Bridgeman Hill Formation - Undifferentiated dolomite, slate, and conglomerate, on east limb of St. Albans synclinorium, about equivalent to Dunham, Parker, Rugg Brook, and Saxe Brook Formations.
Cavendish Formation, Dolomite and Marble (Cambrian?): Cavendish Formation, Dolomite and Marble - Buff dolomite; minor white to pink calcite marble; actinolitic and diopsidic marbles and beds of actinolite diopside granulite common in Chester dome. The Cavendish Formation is reinstated and considered part of the Mount Holly Complex in VT. Usage follows Thompson (1950), but is extended to include some rocks on Star Hill, including inner and outer cover rocks assigned by Downie (1982) to Hoosac and Pinney Hollow Formations. Formation is divided into four map units: calc-silicate rock and gneiss, marble, feldspathic schist or granofels, and the Gassetts Schist Member. The Cavendish correlates with the Wilcox Formation of the Mount Holly Complex in the Green Mountain massif, and therefore, is of Middle Proterozoic age (Ratcliffe, in press).
Chipman, Bridport, and Beldens Formations, Providence Island Dolomite; Beldens Member (Ordovician): Chipman, Bridport, and Beldens Formations, Providence Island Dolomite; Beldens Member - Interbedded buff to brown heavily scored dolomite and white to blue-gray marble and limestone; designated Beldens Formation east of Highgate Springs thrust.
Chipman, Bridport, and Beldens Formations, Providence Island Dolomite; Bridport Dolomite Member (Ordovician): Chipman, Bridport, and Beldens Formation, Providence Island Dolomite; Bridport Dolomite Member - Buff to brown weathered, sharply defined and laterally persistent beds chiefly of medium bedded to massive, scored dolomite; variously designated Bridport Formation and Providence Island Dolomite in northwestern Vermont.
Chipman, Bridport, and Beldens Formations, Providence Island Dolomite; Burchards Member (Ordovician): Chipman, Bridport, and Beldens Formations, Providence Island Dolomite; Burchards Member - Blue-gray limestone with irregular spots of light buff dolomite that give weathered surface a mottled appearance.
Clarendon Springs, Ticonderoga, and Rock River Dolomites; Gorge Formation (Cambrian): Clarendon Springs, Ticonderoga, and Rock River Dolomite; Gorge Formation - Fairly uniform, massive, smooth weathered gray dolomite characterized by numerous geodes and knots of white quartz; quartz sandstone and irregular masses of chert are near the top. Called the Ticonderoga west of Orwell and Champlain thrusts and the Rock River east of Philipsburg thrust. The Gorge is a partly conglomeratic facies on the west limb of the St. Albans synclinorium..
Cutting Dolomite, and Undifferentiated Morgan Corner and Wallace Creek Formations (Ordovician): Cutting Dolomite, and Undifferentiated Morgan Corner and Wallace Creek Formations - Typical Cutting is a massive, gray weathered, nondescript dolomite with finely laminated calcareous sandstone at base. The combined Morgan Corner and Wallace Creek Formations, east of Philipsburg thrust, are stratigraphically equivalent to the Cutting. Cutting Formation of Cady (1945) is stratigraphically extended to include Division D, member 1 of Brainerd and Seeley, 1890, (now called Smith Basin Member), and is here renamed Cutting Hill Formation. No new type section is designated. Redefined unit includes Winchell Creek Sandstone Member, East Shoreham Member (named), and Smith Basin Member (Washington and Chisick, 1988).
Dalton Formation (Cambrian): Dalton Formation - Schistose quartzite containing pebbles of feldspar and blue quartz; impure dolomite containing pebbles of quartz and feldspar occurs locally; conglomerate common near base. Occurs in southwestern Vertmont.
Danby and Potsdam Formations (Cambrian): Danby and Potsdam Formations - The Danby is comprised of interbedded quartzite and dolomite; white quartzite beds, more than a foot thick, separated by 10 to 12 feet of dolomite in eastern areas, increase westward to continuous sections of white to pink weathered, massively bedded Potsdam quartzite, west of Orwell thrust.
Dunham Dolomite (Cambrian): Dunham Dolomite - Buff-weathered siliceous dolomite, pink and cream mottled or buff to gray on fresh surface; lower part is massive and upper part is sandy and resembles the Winooski Dolomite.
Fitch Formation (Silurian): Fitch Formation - Quartz-plagioclase-biotite granulite; actinolite-diopside granulite; impure limestone and dolomite; mica schist; the carbonate-rich beds are typically an inch or two thick and segmented so as to give the weathered outcrop a characteristic pitted appearance. (Southeastern Vermont).
Forestdale Marble (Cambrian): Forestdale Marble - Buff to rusty-weathered white, buff, and pink and white mottled dolomite containing local interbeds of dolomitic sandstone, gray-green phyllitic quartzite, and crossbedded sandy dolomite.
Hathaway Formation (Ordovician): Hathaway Formation - Gray to black argillite and bedded radiolarian chert, with included blocks and fragments of chert, limestone, dolomite, sandstone and graywacke.
Hoosac Formation, Plymouth Member (Cambrian): Hoosac Formation, Plymouth Member - Quartzite, schistose quartzite, dolomitic quartzite; carbonaceous phyllite; buff to dark gray dolomite with partings locally of carbonaceous phyllite; quartz-sericite-chlorite-albite schist; carbonaceous albite schist. (Southern and Central Vermont). Revised the Plymouth Member of the Hoosac Formation of Doll and others (1961) to the Plymouth Formation. Consists of a series of feldspathic and dolomitic quartzites, dolostones and black phyllites that overlie probable Middle Proterozoic gneisses. The Plymouth Formation can be divided into several informal members. The lower contact of the formation is below a sequence of dolomitic quartzites or thin bedded quartzite. Dark laminated silty phyllites laterally replace the more feldspathic quartzites and dark-gray schistose quartzites, massive vitreous quartzites, and dolomitic quartzites pass upward to the east into well bedded cream-weathered light-gray dolostone breccia; these lithologies make up the dolostone member of the Plymouth Formation. The upper member of the Plymouth Formation is a black graphitic and siliceous phyllite that contains 1 to 3 cm thick layers of dark-gray ferruginous quartzite, dolomitic quartzite, and ribbony beds of dolostone. The upper contact of the Plymouth Formation is placed at the first occurrence of light-silvery-green magnetite-muscovite-quartz knotted phyllites of the Pinney Hollow Formation (Ratcliffe, 1994).
Iberville Formation (Ordovician): Iberville Formation - Noncalcareous black shale interbedded with occasional dolomite beds and in the lower part with calcareous shale.
Middlebury and Chazy Limestone; Undifferentiated Youngman and Carman Formations (Ordovician): Middlebury and Chazy Limestone, Undifferentiated Youngman and Carman Formations - Dark blue-gray, somewhat nodular and granular limestone with buff dolomite and shaly interbeds a fraction of an inch thick and 2 to 4 inches apart. The Middlebury, which is east of Champlain and Orwell thrusts, and the Youngman, which is east of Highgate Springs thrust, are, due partly to deformation, more slaty in appearance than the Chazy, which is west of the major thrusts. The Carman is a quartz sandstone with shaly partings that underlies the Youngman. The Chazy contains 3 members.
Monkton Quartzite (Cambrian): Monkton Quartzite - Distinctively red quartzite interbedded with lesser buff and white quartzite and relatively thick sections of dolomite like that of the Winooski; the quartzites thin to the east, and they become gray and phyllitic to the east and south.
Morses Line Formation (Ordovician): Morses Line Formation - Calcareous and non-calcareous slate; local lenses of thin-bedded limestone, limestone conglomerate, and dolomite; in St. Albans synclinorium.
Parker Slate (Cambrian): Parker Slate - Gray to black micaceous shale and slate, includes dolomite, sandstone, and quartzite lenses; chiefly on west limb of St. Albans synclinorium.
Rugg Brook Formation (Cambrian): Rugg Brook Formation - Sandy gray dolomite, dolomite conglomerate, and interbeds of gray-weathered sandstone, in St. Albans and Middlebury synclinoria.
Saxe Brook Dolomite (Cambrian): Saxe Brook Dolomite - Sandy gray dolomite, sandstone containing dolomitic cement, and pure dolomite; on west limb of St. Albans synclinorium.
Shelburne, Whitehall, and Strites Pond Formations (Ordovician): Shelburne, Whitehall, and Strites Pond Formations - The Shelburne is chiefly a white marble or gray limestone characterized by raised reticulate lines of gray dolomite on the weathered surface; includes Sutherland Falls marble, intermediate dolomite and Columbian marble of the marble quarries. Interbedded massive dolomite increases westward and predominates in the Whitehall formation, west of Champlain and Orwell thrusts. The Strites Pond, which is identical to the Shelburne, is east of Philipsburg thrust.
Stony Point Formation (Ordovician): Stony Point Formation - Predominantly calcareous black shale that grades upward into argillaceous limestone and rare dolomite beds, in northwestern Vermont.
Sweetsburg Formation, Skeels Corners Slate and Mill River Conglomerate Members Undifferentiated (Cambrian): Sweetsburg Formation, Skeels Corners Slate and Mill River Conglomerate Members Undifferentiated - Black slate; local dolomite, sandstone, dolomite conglomerate, limestone bioherm, limestone, and calcareous shale. The Mill River is a basal limestone conglomerate.
Tyson Formation (Cambrian): Tyson Formation - Feldspathic quartz-mica schist containing biotite, chlorite, and carbonate; many beds contain pebbles of quartz and feldspar; cobble or boulder conglomerate commonly at base; thin beds of quartzite, carbonaceous phyllite, and schistose dolomite in upper part, overlain at top by massive buff dolomite as much as 30 ft thick. (Southern and Central Vermont). The Tyson Formation contains grits and conglomerates at its base that unconformably overlie basement. The conglomerates and grits are as much as 150 m thick and contain lenses of dolomitic quartzite and feldspathic grit. Unit also contains black carbonaceous phyllite and interbedded dolostone as much as 100 m thick, followed by beige to tan weathering beds of dolostone that increase in abundance toward the top of the unit and pass into punky weathering dolomitic and feldspathic quartzite at the top. From a point near the southwest corner of the Andover quad, the rocks of the Tyson Formation are laterally replaced by albitic schists and granofels of the Hoosac Formation to the south. Therefore, Tyson laterally replaces the Hoosac from south to north along the eastern margin of the Green Mountain massif. The Tyson Formation is of Late Proterozoic(?) and Early Cambrian age (Ratcliffe, 1994).
Underhill Formation, Forestdale Member (Cambrian): Underhill Formation, Forestdale Member buff to rusty weathered sandy dolomite and limestone. (Northern and Central Vermont).
Underhill Formation, White Brook Member (Cambrian): Underhill Formation, White Brook Member - Chiefly brown-weathered whitish, tan and gray sandy dolomite, locally only a hematitic zone; includes carbonaceous crystalline limestone in Cambridge syncline. (Northern and Central Vermont).
Winooski Dolomite (Cambrian): Winooski Dolomite - Buff-weathered, pink, buff, and gray dolomite; beds 4 inches to 1 foot thick separated by thin, protruding, red, pink, green, and black siliceous partings.

Washington

Cambrian limestone and dolomite (Early Cambrian-Middle Ordovician): Mostly massive dolomite, with a basal unit of gray to dark-gray limestone interbedded with limy shale, and an upper unit of fine-grained massive limestone with some marble; Pend Oreille and northern and central Stevens Counties. Three-fold division less evident in Colville area. Dolomite, with minor basal unit of interbedded limestone and phyllite in the Addy-Dunn Mountain area of Stevens County. Marble, dolomite, limestone, and limy slate in Hunters' district. Dolomitic marble in southern Stevens and northern Lincoln Counties. Middle Cambrian fossils near base in Metaline district, and Bathyuriscus-Elrathina fauna in lower unit in Leadpoint district. Phosphatic brachiopods in upper unit in Leadpoint district tentatively assigned to Middle and Upper Cambrian.
Cambrian phyllite (Cambrian): Predominantly gray-green, banded phyllite, some sericite schist, abundant thin beds of quartzite, especially in lower part of unit, and limestone in upper part; northern Pend Oreille County. Much the same lithology but more conspicuous subunits of quartzite, limestone, and schist in northeastern Stevens County. Gray phyllite, greenish argillite, andalusite schist, minor inerbedded quartzite and siliceous dolomite, especially in lower part, and much gray limestone in upper part; north-central Stevens County. Limestone bed in lower part of unit contains Lower Cambrian fossils (Archaeocyathus).
Precambrian conglomerate (Late-Proterozoic): Gray-brown, coarse, poorly sorted pebbles and cobbles of limestone, dolomite, reddish-brown quartzite, black slate or phyllite, and rarely granitic rocks in a gray sandy phyllite matrix; northeastern Pend Oreille County and southwestern Stevens County. Rocks become finer grained and more schistose and the unit becomes thicker toward the southwest, where there is included an isolated subunit which may be a tillite, consisting of cobbles, boulders, and blocks of argillite and carbonate rocks in a fine silty matrix.
Precambrian rocks, undivided (Middle to Late Proterozoic): Magnesite-bearing Stensgar dolomite; southwestern Stevens County.
Triassic sedimentary rocks, undivided (Triassic with Permian where impossible to differentiate): Predominantly limestone, marble, and dolomite near Riverside in Okanogan County. Conglomerate, shale, graywacke, gritstone, and limestone on San Juan Island. Siltstone with greenstone locally on Orcas Island. Graywacke conglomerate, cherty greenstone, and limestone in northern Ferry County.

Wisconsin

Cambrian, undivided (Cambrian): Cambrian, undivided - Sandstone with some dolomite and shale, undivided; includes Trempealeau, Tunnel City, and Elk Mound Formations
Chocolay Group, undivided (Early Proterozoic): Chocolay Group, undivided - In Dickinson County, Mich., includes Randville Dolomite, Sturgeon Quartzite, and Fern Creek Formation. In Marquette range, between Marquette Bay and Champion, includes Wewe Slate, Kona Dolomite, Mesnard Quartzite, and Enchantment Lake Formation
Ironwood Iron-formation of Menominee Group and Palms Formation of Chocolay Group (Early Proterozoic): Ironwood Iron-formation of Menominee Group and Palms Formation of Chocolay Group - Mapped where units are too thin to show separately on map (Gogebic Range). Palms Formation includes Bad River Dolomite and Sunday Quartzite of Chocolay Group
Maquoketa Formation (Ordovician): Maquoketa Formation - Shale, dolomitic shale and dolomite; includes overlying Neda Formation (age uncertain) consisting of oolitic iron oxides and shale
Prairie du Chien Group (Ordovician): Prairie du Chien Group - Dolomite with some sandstone and shale; includes Shakopee and Oneota Formations
Silurian, undivided (Silurian): Silurian, undivided - Dolomite, undivided; includes Cayugan, Niagaran, and Alexandrian series
Sinnipee Group (Ordovician): Sinnipee Group - Dolomite with some limestone and shale; includes Galena, Decorah, and Platteville Formations

West Virginia

Beekmantown or Lower Ordovician Group (Ordovician): Beekmantown or Lower Ordovician Group - mainly thick-bedded limestone and dolomite. Various units produce much chert on outcrop. Consists of units: Pinesburg Station Dolomite, Rockdale Run Formation, and Stonehenge Limestone.
Conococheague Formation (Cambrian): Conococheague Formation - predominantly algal and mechanically deposited limestone, with interbeds of aphanitic limestone and dolomite. Contains siliceous and dolomitic laminations. Resistant sandy Big Spring Station Member near the base.
Elbrook Formation (Cambrian): Elbrook Formation - thin-bedded blue-gray argillaceous limestone and platy shale, with some siliceous limestone and minor dolomite.
Pinesburg Station Dolomite (Ordovician): Pinesburg Station Dolomite - fine- to medium-crystalline, brown to light gray dolomite, containing nodular chert.
Rockdale Run Formation (Ordovician): Rockdale Run Formation - bluish to light gray and brown, thick-bedded dolomite and limestone, containing gray chert and zones of Cryptozoa and Lecanospira.
St. Paul Group (Ordovician): St. Paul Group - includes the New Market and Row Park Limestones. Predominantly medium-gray aphanitic limestone, containing very low-silica, cream-colored member of considerable economic importance. Chert nodules and dolomite occur in the Row Park.
Tomstown Dolomite (Cambrian): Tomstown Dolomite - thick-bedded, blue-gray, aphanitic, saccharoidal, and splintery dolomite, weathering coffee-brown; some siliceous limestone and black chert. Contains commercial beds of white, pure, low-silica dolomite.
Waynesboro Formation (Cambrian): Waynesboro Formation - variegated shale and sandstone, commonly red or brown. Middle zone contains much dolomite and limestone. Contains the Olenellus fauna of Early Cambrian age, although its upper portion may be of Middle Cambrian age.

Wyoming

Bighorn Dolomite (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Middle Ordovician-Late): BIGHORN DOLOMITE--Light-gray massive siliceous dolomite in northern Yellowstone area. Gray massive cliff-forming siliceous dolomite and locally dolomitic limestone in Thrust belt and northern Wyoming.
Bighorn Dolomite, Gallatin Limestone, and Gros Ventre Formation (TB), Bighorn Dolomite, Snowy Range Formation, Pilgrim Limestone, Park Shale, Meagher Limestone, Wolsey Shale, and Flathead Sandstone (Y), Bighorn Dolomite, Gallatin Limestone, Gros Ventre Formation, and Flathead Sandstone (N), or Whitewood Dolomite, and WInnipeg and Deadwood Formations (NE) (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Cambrian-Middle Cambrian-Furongian(?) Ordovician-Early(?) Ordovician-Middle(?) Ordovician-Late): BIGHORN DOLOMITE, GALLATIN LIMESTONE, and GROS VENTRE FORMATION. BIGHORN DOLOMITE (Thrust Belt)--Gray massive cliff-forming siliceous dolomite and locally dolomitic limestone. GALLATIN LIMESTONE--Gray and tan limestone. GROS VENTRE FORMATION--Greenish-gray micaceous shale. BIGHORN DOLOMITE, SNOWY RANGE FORMATION, PILGRIM LIMESTONE, PARK SHALE, MEAGHER LIMESTONE, WOLSEY SHALE, AND FLATHEAD SANDSTONE (Yellowstone). BIGHORN DOLOMITE--Light-gray massive siliceous dolomite. SNOWY RANGE FORMATION (Gallatin Group)--Medium-gray limestone and underlying greenish-gray shale. PILGRIM LIMESTONE (Gallatin Group)--Blue-gray and yellow mottled hard limestone. PARK SHALE--Green micaceous soft shale. Upper part may be Late Cambrian. MEAGHER LIMESTONE--Blue-gray and yellow mottled hard limestone. WOLSEY SHALE--Green micaceous soft shale. FLATHEAD SANDSTONE--Dull-red quartzitic sandstone. BIGHORN DOLOMITE, GALLATIN LIMESTONE, GROS VENTRE FORMATION, AND FLATHEAD SANDSTONE (north Wyoming). BIGHORN DOLOMITE--Gray massive cliff-forming siliceous dolomite and locally dolomitic limestone. GALLATIN LIMESTONE--Blue-gray and yellow mottled hard dense limestone. GROS VENTRE FORMATION--Soft green micaceous shale (Upper and Middle Cambrian Park Shale Member), underlain by blue-gray and yellow mottled hard dense limestone (Middle Cambrian Death Canyon Limestone Member), and soft green micaceous shale (Middle Cambrian Wolsey Shale Member). FLATHEAD SANDSTONE--Dull-red quartzitic sandstone. WHITEWOOD DOLOMITE, AND WINNIPEG AND DEADWOOD FORMATIONS (northeast Wyoming). WHITEWOOD DOLOMITE--Buff massive fossiliferous dolomite. WINNIPEG FORMATION--Pink to yellow siltstone and shale. DEADWOOD FORMATION--Red and brown quartzitic sandstone.
Chugwater and Goose Egg Formations (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic Mesozoic | Permian Triassic-Early(?) Triassic-Middle(?) Triassic-Late): CHUGWATER AND GOOSE EGG FORMATIONS (north Wyoming). CHUGWATER FORMATION--Red siltstone and shale. Alcova Limestone Member in upper middle part in north Wyoming. Thin gypsum partings near base in north and northeast Wyoming. GOOSE EGG FORMATION--Red sandstone and siltstone, white gypsum, halite, and purple to white dolomite and limestone; CHUGWATER FORMATION OR GROUP (south Wyoming)--Red shale and siltstone containing thin gypsum partings near base. Group includes Popo Agie Formation (red shale and red, yellow, and purple siltstone; lenses of lime-pellet conglomerate), Crow Mountain Sandstone (red and gray, thick bedded), Alcova Limestone, and Red Peak Formation (red siltstone and shale). Chugwater Formation includes as members all the units listed above. Includes overlying Jelm Formation in Shirley and Seminoe Mountains and at northern end of Laramie Basin. JELM FORMATION--Red sandstone. GOOSE EGG FORMATION--Red sandstone and siltstone, white gypsum, halite, and purple to white dolomite and limestone.
Cloverly, Morrison, Sundance, and Gypsum Spring Formations (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Jurassic-Middle Jurassic-Late(?) Cretaceous-Early): CLOVERLY, MORRISON, AND SUNDANCE (Js), AND GYPSUM SPRING FORMATIONS. CLOVERLY FORMATION--Rusty sandstone at top, underlain by brightly variegated bentonitic claystone; chert-pebble conglomerate locally at base. MORRISON FORMATION--Dully variegated claystone, nodular limestone, and gray silty sandstone. In southern Yellowstone and Jackson Hole areas the presence of Morrison is questionable. SUNDANCE FORMATION--Greenish-gray glauconitic sandstone and shale, underlain by red and gray nonglauconitic sandstone and shale. GYPSUM SPRING FORMATION--Interbedded red shale, dolomite, and gypsum. In north Wyoming wedges out south in T. 39 N.
Cloverly, Morrison, Sundance, and Gypsum Spring Formations and Nugget Sandstone (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Triassic(?) Jurassic(?) Cretaceous-Early): CLOVERLY, MORRISON, AND SUNDANCE (Js), GYPSUM SPRING FORMATIONS, AND NUGGET SANDSTONE (J@n). CLOVERLY FORMATION--Rusty sandstone at top, underlain by brightly variegated bentonitic claystone; chert-pebble conglomerate locally at base. MORRISON FORMATION--Dully variegated claystone, nodular limestone, and gray silty sandstone. In southern Yellowstone and Jackson Hole areas the presence of Morrison is questionable. SUNDANCE FORMATION--Greenish-gray glauconitic sandstone and shale, underlain by red and gray nonglauconitic sandstone and shale. GYPSUM SPRING FORMATION--Interbedded red shale, dolomite, and gypsum. In north Wyoming wedges out south in T. 39 N. NUGGET SANDSTONE--Gray to dull-red, crossbedded quartz sandstone.
Goose Egg Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic Mesozoic | Permian Triassic-Early): GOOSE EGG FORMATION--Red sandstone and siltstone, white gypsum, halite, and purple to white dolomite and limestone.
Guernsey Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Devonian-Late Carboniferous Mississippian-Early): GUERNSEY FORMATION--Blue-gray massive cherty limestone and dolomite. Locally includes unnamed dolomite and sandstone of Devonian and Cambrian(?) age.
Gypsum Spring Formation and Nugget Sandstone (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Triassic-Early Triassic-Middle(?) Triassic-Late(?) Jurassic-Early(?) Jurassic-Middle(?) Jurassic-Late): GYPSUM SPRING FORMATION AND NUGGET SANDSTONE. GYPSUM SPRING FORMATION--Interbedded red shale, dolomite, and gypsum. In north Wyoming wedges out south in T. 39 N. NUGGET SANDSTONE--gray to dull-red, crossbedded quartz sandstone.
Gypsum Spring Formation, Nugget Sandstone, and Chugwater Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Triassic-Early Triassic-Middle(?) Triassic-Late(?) Jurassic-Early(?) Jurassic-Middle(?) Jurassic-Late): GYPSUM SPRING FORMATION, NUGGET SANDSTONE, AND CHUGWATER FORMATION. GYPSUM SPRING FORMATION--Interbedded red shale, dolomite, and gypsum. In north Wyoming wedges out south in T. 39 N. NUGGET SANDSTONE--gray to dull-red, crossbedded quartz sandstone. CHUGWATER FORMATION--Red siltstone and shale. Alcova Limestone Member in upper middle part in north Wyoming. Thin gypsum partings near base in north and northeast Wyoming.
Laketown Dolomite (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Silurian): LAKETOWN DOLOMITE--Light-gray thick-bedded finely crystalline dolomite.
Madison Group and Darby Formation (TB, N) or Madison Group and Three Forks and Jefferson Formations (Y) (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Devonian-Late Carboniferous Mississippian-Early(?) Mississippian-Middle(?) Mississippian-Late): MADISON GROUP AND DARBY FORMATION (Thrust Belt, north Wyoming). MADISON GROUP--Group includes Mission Canyon Limestone (blue-gray massive limestone and dolomite), underlain by Lodgepole Limestone (gray cherty limestone and dolomite). DARBY FORMATION--Yellow and greenish-gray shale and dolomitic siltstone underlain by fetid brown dolomite and limestone. MADISON GROUP AND THREE FORKS AND JEFFERSON FORMATIONS (Yellowstone). MADISON GROUP--Group includes Mission Canyon Limestone (blue-gray massive limestone and dolomite), underlain by Lodgepole Limestone (gray cherty limestone and dolomite). THREE FORKS FORMATION--Pink, yellow, and green dolomitic siltstone and shale. JEFFERSON FORMATION--Massive siliceous dolomite.
Madison Limestone and Bighorn Dolomite (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Ordovician-Middle Ordovician-Late(?) Silurian(?) Devonian(?) Carboniferous Mississippian-Early(?) Mississippian-Middle(?) Mississippian-Late): MADISON LIMESTONE AND BIGHORN DOLOMITE. MADISON LIMESTONE OR GROUP--Group includes Mission Canyon Limestone (blue-gray massive limestone and dolomite), underlain by Lodgepole Limestone (gray cherty limestone and dolomite). BIGHORN DOLOMITE--Light-gray massive siliceous dolomite.
Madison Limestone, Darby Formation, Bighorn Dolomite, Gallatin Limestone, Gros Ventre Formation, and Flathead Sandstone (N), Madison Limestone and Cambrian rocks (S), Minnekahta Limestone, Opeche Shale, Minnelusa Formation, Pahasapa and Englewood Limestones, Whitewood Dolomite, Winnipeg and Deadwood Formations (NE), or Paleozoic, undifferentiated (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Cambrian Ordovician(?) Silurian(?) Devonian(?) Carboniferous(?) Permian): MADISON LIMESTONE, DARBY FORMATION, BIGHORN DOLOMITE, GALLATIN LIMESTONE, GROS VENTRE FORMATION, AND FLATHEAD SANDSTONE (north Wyoming). MADISON LIMESTONE OR GROUP--Group includes Mission Canyon Limestone (blue-gray massive limestone and dolomite), underlain by Lodgepole Limestone (gray cherty limestone and dolomite). DARBY FORMATION--Yellow and greenish-gray shale and dolomitic siltstone underlain by fetid brown dolomite and limestone. BIGHORN DOLOMITE--Gray massive cliff-forming siliceous dolomite and locally dolomitic limestone. GALLATIN LIMESTONE--Blue-gray and yellow mottled hard dense limestone. GROS VENTRE FORMATION--Soft green micaceous shale (Upper and Middle Cambrian Park Shale Member), underlain by blue-gray and yellow mottled hard dense limestone (Middle Cambrian Death Canyon Limestone Member), and soft green micaceous shale (Middle Cambrian Wolsey Shale Member). FLATHEAD SANDSTONE--Dull-red quartzitic sandstone. MADISON LIMESTONE AND CAMBRIAN ROCKS (south Wyoming). MADISON LIMESTONE--Includes Mission Canyon Limestone (blue-gray massive limestone and dolomite), underlain by Lodgepole Limestone (gray cherty limestone and dolomite). CAMBRIAN ROCKS--On south flank of Granite Mountains, blue-gray and yellow mottled hard dense limestone interbedded with soft green micaceous shale; dull-red quartzitic sandstone at bae. On and south of Rawlins uplift, glauconitic quartzitic sandstone. MINNEKAHTA LIMESTONE, OPECHE SHALE, MINNELUSA FORMATION, PAHASAPA AND ENGLEWOOD LIMESTONES, WHITEWOOD DOLOMITE, AND WINNIPEG AND DEADWOOD FORMATIONS--Various combinations (northeast Wyoming). MINNEKAHTA LIMESTONE--Gray slabby hard limestone. Locally is a member of the Goose Egg Formation. OPECHE SHALE--Red soft sandy shale. Locally is a member of the Goose Egg Formation. MINNELUSA FORMATION--Buff and red limy sandstone; some thin limestone beds, solution breccias, and gypsum. PAHASAPA LIMESTONE--Gray massive dolomititc limestone. ENGLEWOOD LIMESTONE--Pink slabby dolomitic limestone. WHITEWOOD DOLOMITE--Buff massive fossiliferous dolomite. WINNIPEG FORMATION--Pink to yellow siltstone and shale. DEADWOOD FORMATION--Red and brown quartzitic sandstone. PALEOZOIC ROCKS, undifferentiated (Thrust Belt).
Madison Limestone or Group (S) (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Mississippian-Early Mississippian-Middle(?) Mississippian-Late): MADISON LIMESTONE OR GROUP--Group includes Mission Canyon Limestone (blue-gray massive limestone and dolomite), underlain by Lodgepole Limestone (gray cherty limestone and dolomite).
Phosphoria Formation (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian): PHOSPHORIA FORMATION AND RELATED ROCKS--Thrust Belt: Upper part is dark- to light-gray chert and shale with black shale and phosphorite at top; lower part is black shale, phosphorite, and cherty dolomite; north Wyoming: Brown sandstone and dolomite, cherty phosphatic and glauconitic dolomite, phosphatic sandstone and dolomite, and greenish-gray to black shale. Intertonguing equivalents of parts of Phosphoria are Park City Formation (primarily cherty dolomite, limestone, and phosphatic gray shale) and Shedhorn Sandstone.
Phosphoria, Wells, and Amsden Formations (TB), Phosphoria Formation and related rocks, Quadrant Sandstone, and Amsden Formation (Y), or Phosphoria Formation and related rocks, Tensleep Sandstone, and Amsden Formation (N) (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Mississippian-Late Pennsylvanian(?) Permian): PHOSPHORIA, WELLS, AND AMSDEN FORMATIONS (Thrust Belt). PHOSPHORIA FORMATION--Upper part is dark- to light-gray chert and shale with black shale and phosphorite at top; lower part is black shale, phosphorite, and cherty dolomite. WELLS FORMATION--Gray limestone interbedded with yellow limy sandstone. AMSDEN FORMATION--Red and gray cherty limestone and shale, sandstone, and conglomerate. PHOSPHORIA FORMATION AND RELATED ROCKS, QUADRANT SANDSTONE, AND AMSDEN FORMATION (Yellowstone). PHOSPHORIA FORMATION AND RELATED ROCKS--Brown sandstone and dolomite, cherty phosphatic and glauconitic dolomite, phosphatic sandstone and dolomite, and greenish-gray to black shale. Intertonguing equivalent is Shedhorn Sandstone. QUADRANT SANDSTONE--Light-gray sandstone. AMSDEN FORMATION--Red and green dolomitic shale, siltstone, and sandstone. PHOSPHORIA FORMATION AND RELATED ROCKS, TENSLEEP SANDSTONE, AND AMSDEN FORMATION (north Wyoming). PHOSPHORIA FORMATION AND RELATED ROCKS--Brown sandstone and dolomite, cherty phosphatic and glauconitic dolomite, phosphatic sandstone and dolomite, and greenish-gray to black shale. Intertonguing equivalents of parts of Phosphoria are Park City Formation (primarlily cherty dolomite, limestone, and phosphatic gray shale) and Shedhorn Sandstone. TENSLEEP SANDSTONE--White to gray sandstone containing thin limestone and dolomite beds. Permian fossils have been found in the topmost beds of the Tensleep at some localities in Washakie Range, Owl Creek Mountains, and southern Bighorn Mountains. AMSDEN FORMATION--Red and green shale and dolomite; at base is brown sandstone.
Sundance and Gypsum Spring Formations (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Jurassic-Middle Jurassic-Late): SUNDANCE (Js) AND GYPSUM SPRING FORMATIONS. SUNDANCE FORMATION--Greenish-gray glauconitic sandstone and shale, underlain by red and gray nonglauconitic sandstone and shale. GYPSUM SPRING FORMATION--Interbedded red shale, dolomite, and gypsum. In north Wyoming wedges out south in T. 39 N.
Sundance and Gypsum Spring Formations and Nugget Sandstone (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Triassic(?) Jurassic(?) Jurassic-Early(?) Jurassic-Middle(?) Jurassic-Late): SUNDANCE AND GYPSUM SPRING FORMATIONS AND NUGGET SANDSTONE. SUNDANCE FORMATION--Greenish-gray glauconitic sandstone and shale, underlain by red and gray nonglauconitic sandstone and shale. GYPSUM SPRING FORMATION--Interbedded red shale, dolomite, and gypsum. In north Wyoming wedges out south in T. 39 N. NUGGET SANDSTONE--gray to dull-red, crossbedded quartz sandstone.
Wells and Amsden Formations (TB), or Casper Formation and Madison Limestone (N, S) (Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Early Pennsylvanian-Middle(?) Pennsylvanian-Late(?) Permian): WELLS AND AMSDEN FORMATIONS (Thrust Belt). WELLS FORMATION--Gray limestone interbedded with yellow limy sandstone. AMSDEN FORMATION--Red and gray cherty limestone and shale, sandstone, and conglomerate. CASPER FORMATION AND MADISON LIMESTONE (north, south Wyoming). CASPER FORMATION--Gray, tan, and red thick-bedded sandstone underlain by interbedded sandstone and pink and gray limestone. May include some Devonian(?) sandstone along east flank of Laramie Mountains. MADISON LIMESTONE--Includes Mission Canyon Limestone (blue-gray massive limestone and dolomite), underlain by Lodgepole Limestone (gray cherty limestone and dolomite).

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