Bedford Shale (MIDbd;0)

State	Michigan
Name	Bedford Shale
Geologic age	Late Devonian
Original map label	Dbd
Comments	Secondary unit description from USGS Geologic Names lexicon (ref. MI016): Bedford Shale and Berea Sandstone are not exposed in MI. They record, in the subsurface, a southwestward growth of a deltaic system into the Antrim sea during Kinderhookian time. The Bedford Shale is a bluish to light gray, silty shale that becomes sandy in its upper part and has a gradational contact with the overlying Berea Sandstone. It is commonly 15 to 30 m thick and thins and becomes fine grained to the west, where it intertongues with the Antrim. Reaches a maximum thickness of 76 m in the Michigan thumb area.
Primary rock type	shale
Secondary rock type	sandstone
Other rock types
Lithologic constituents	Major Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale Incidental Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone
Map references	Milstein, Randall L. (compiler), 1987, Bedrock geology of southern Michigan: Geological Survey Division, Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources, scale= 1:500,000
Unit references	Milstein, Randall L. (compiler), 1987, Bedrock geology of southern Michigan: Geological Survey Division, Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources, scale= 1:500,000 USGS Geologic Names Lexicon (GEOLEX) [http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/]
Geographic coverage	Alcona - Antrim - Lenawee - Livingston - Macomb - Montmorency - Oakland - Oscoda - Otsego - Saint Clair - Sanilac - Washtenaw - Wayne