Leipers Limestone (ALOlp;3)

Leipers Limestone

Leipers Limestone -- medium to dark-gray thin to medium-bedded fossiliferous limestone containing interbeds of thin argillaceous limestone. Mapped in Sequatchie Valley. Inman Formation -- interbedded greenish-gray or moderate to dusky-red shale and light-gray peloidal limestone. Mapped in Sequatchie Valley.

State	Alabama
Name	Leipers Limestone
Geologic age	Ordovician
Lithologic constituents	Major Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestonemedium to dark-gray thin to medium-bedded fossiliferous limestone containing interbeds of thin argillaceous limestone
References	Szabo, M.W., Osborne, E.W., Copeland, C.W. Jr., and Neathery, T.L., 1988, Geologic Map of Alabama, Geological Survey of Alabama Special Map 220, scale 1:250,000.
NGMDB product	NGMDB product page for 55859
Counties	Blount - Jackson - Marshall

Leipers Limestone

Szabo, M.W., Osborne, E.W., Copeland, C.W. Jr., and Neathery, T.L., 1988, Geologic Map of Alabama, Geological Survey of Alabama Special Map 220, scale 1:250,000.