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Tuscumbia Limestone and Fort Payne Chert undivided

Tuscumbia Limestone and Fort Payne Chert undivided - Tuscumbia Limestone -- light-gray partly oolitic limestone; very coarse bioclastic crinoidal limestone common; light-gray chert nodules and concretions locally abundant. Fort Payne Chert -- very light to light-olive-gray, thin to thick-bedded fine to coarse-grained bioclastic (abundant pelmatozoans) limestone containing abundant nodules, lenses and beds of light to dark-grey chert. Upper part of formation locally consists of light-bluish-gray laminated siltstone containing vugs lined or filled with quartz and scattered throughout the formation are interbeds of medium to greenish-gray shale, shaly limestone and siltstone. Lenses of dark-gray siliceous shale occur locally at the base of the Fort Payne in Wills Valley. Commonly present below the Fort Payne is a ligh-olive-gray claystone or shale (Maury Formation) which is mapped with the Fort Payne. The Tuscumbia and Fort Payne are undifferentiated in Murphrees and Wills Valleys.
StateAlabama
NameTuscumbia Limestone and Fort Payne Chert undivided
Geologic ageMississippian
Original map labelMtfp
Primary rock typelimestone
Secondary rock typechert
Other rock typessiltstone; shale; claystone
Lithologic constituents
Major
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed)Tuscumbia Limestone -- light-gray partly oolitic limestone; very coarse bioclastic crinoidal limestone common; Fort Payne Chert -- very light to light-olive-gray, thin to thick-bedded fine to coarse-grained bioclastic (abundant pelmatozoans) limestone & shaly limestone.
Minor
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Claystone (Bed)Commonly present below the Fort Payne is a ligh-olive-gray claystone or shale (Maury Formation) which is mapped with the Fort Payne.
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale (Bed)Fort Payne Chert -- scattered throughout the formation are interbeds of medium to greenish-gray shale, shaly limestone; lenses of dark-gray siliceous shale occur locally at the base of the Fort Payne in Wills Valley.
Sedimentary > Clastic > Siltstone (Bed)Fort Payne Chert -- Upper part of formation locally consists of light-bluish-gray laminated siltstone containing vugs lined or filled with quartz.
Sedimentary > Chemical > Chert (Bed)Tuscumbia Limestone -- light-gray chert nodules and concretions locally abundant; Fort Payne Chert -- abundant nodules, lenses and beds of light to dark-grey chert.
Map references
Szabo, M. W., Osborne, E. W., Copeland, C. W. Jr., Neathery; T. L., 1988, Geologic Map of Alabama, Geological Survey of Alabama Special Map 220, scale 1:250,000.
Unit references
Szabo, M. W., Osborne, E. W., Copeland, C. W. Jr., Neathery; T. L., 1988, Geologic Map of Alabama, Geological Survey of Alabama Special Map 220, scale 1:250,000.
Geographic coverageBibb - Blount - Calhoun - Cherokee - Chilton - DeKalb - Etowah - Jackson - Jefferson - Marshall - Saint Clair - Shelby - Talladega - Tuscaloosa

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