Geologic units in Pickett county, Tennessee

St. Louis Limestone and Warsaw Limestone (Mississippian) at surface, covers 43 % of this area

St. Louis Limestone - Fine-grained, brownish-gray limestone, dolomitic and cherty. Thickness 80 to 160 feet.; and Warsaw Limestone - Mainly medium- to coarse-grained, gray limestone, crossbedded. Includes much calcareous sandstone and shale to the north. Thickness 100 to 130 feet.

Fort Payne Formation and Chattanooga Shale (Mississippian) at surface, covers 20 % of this area

Fort Payne Formation - Calcareous and dolomitic silicastone; contains bedded chert, cherty limestone, and shale; scattered crinoidal limestone lenses. Thin green shale (Maury) at base. Thickness 100 to 275 feet.; and Chattanooga Shale - Black carbonaceous shale, fissile. Thickness 20 to 30 feet in most areas. (Mapped as MDc in Flynn Creek structure, where it is about 200 feet thick.) (Also mapped as MDc on the East Sheet)

Rockcastle Conglomerate (Pennsylvanian) at surface, covers 13 % of this area

Conglomeratic sandstone and sandstone, gray to brown, fine- to coarse-grained. Thin coal-bearing shale locally present near middle. Thickness 150 to 220 feet.

Monteagle Limestone (Mississippian) at surface, covers 10 % of this area

Mainly fragmental and oolitic, light-gray limestone; blocky bryozoan chert weathers from base. Thickness 180 to 300 feet.

Fentress Formation (Pennsylvanian) at surface, covers 6 % of this area

Mostly dark-gray to light-brown shale, with minor siltstone and sandstone. Wilder coal near middle. Laterally equivalent to entire Gizzard Group and all of Crab Orchard Mountains Group below Rockcastle Conglomerate. Thickness as much as 340 feet.

Bangor Limestone and Hartselle Formation (Mississippian) at surface, covers 4 % of this area

Bangor Limestone - Dark brownish-gray limestone, thick-bedded. Thickness 70 to 400 feet., and Hartselle Formation - Thin-bedded, fine-grained sandstone interbedded with gray shale; with oolitic and coarse-grained limestone beds locally. Thickness 0 to 80 feet.

Pennington Formation (Mississippian) at surface, covers 4 % of this area

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.

Breathitt Formation, lower part (Pennsylvanian) at surface, covers 0.6 % of this area

lower part which includes Livingston Conglomerate Member of Lee Formation in eastern Rockcastle County

Pennington Formation (Paragon Formation), Bangor Limestone, Hartselle Formation, and Kidder Limestone Member of Monteagle Limestone, undivided (Mississippian) at surface, covers 0.6 % of this area

Pennington Formation (Paragon Formation), Bangor Limestone, Hartselle Formation, and Kidder Limestone Member of Monteagle Limestone, undivided

Ste. Genevieve and St. Louis Limestones, undivided (Mississippian) at surface, covers 0.1 % of this area

Ste. Genevieve and St. Louis Limestones, undivided; includes Salem Limestone west of Christian County

Rockcastle Sandstone Member of Lee Formation (Pennsylvanian) at surface, covers 0.1 % of this area

Rockcastle Sandstone Member of Lee Formation

Renfro and Muldraugh Members of Borden Formation and Fort Payne Formation, undivided (Mississippian) at surface, covers 0.1 % of this area

Renfro and Muldraugh Members of Borden Formation and Fort Payne Formation, undivided

Salem, Warsaw, and Harrodsburg Limestones, undivided (Mississippian) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Salem, Warsaw, and Harrodsburg Limestones, undivided

Monteagle Limestone (Mississippian) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Fragmental and oolitic limestone, light-gray; and fine-grained, brownish-gray limestone. Thickness 180 to 350 feet.