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Chickamauga Limestone

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.
StateAlabama
NameChickamauga Limestone
Geologic ageOrdovician
Original map labelOc
Primary rock typelimestone
Secondary rock typeconglomerate
Other rock typeschert; shale; dolostone (dolomite); quartzite
Lithologic constituents
Major
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed)Chickamauga Limestone - Medium to dark-gray thick to thin-bedded partly argillaceous, locally fossiliferous limestone.
Minor
Sedimentary > Chemical > Chert (Bed)Attalla Chert -- conglomerate of pebbles, cobbles, and boulders of chert and rare dolomite and quartzite in a sand-sized chert and quartz matrix
Sedimentary > Clastic > Conglomerate (Bed)Attalla Chert -- conglomerate of pebbles, cobbles, and boulders of chert and rare dolomite and quartzite in a sand-sized chert and quartz matrix
Incidental
Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Metaclastic > Quartzite (Bed)Attalla Chert -- conglomerate of pebbles, cobbles, and boulders of chert and rare dolomite and quartzite in a sand-sized chert and quartz matrix
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Dolostone (Bed)Attalla Chert -- conglomerate of pebbles, cobbles, and boulders of chert and rare dolomite and quartzite in a sand-sized chert and quartz matrix
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale (Bed)
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.

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