Conemaugh Group

Shale, siltstone, and mudstone: Shale, black, gray, green and red; clayey to silty; locally contains marine fossils in lower half of unit; calcareous in part. Siltstone, gray, green and red, locally variegated; clayed to sandy; thin bedded to nonbedded. Mudstone, black, gray, green, red, and yellow, variegated in part; clayey to silty; locally calcareous; commonly nonbedded. Sandstone, green-gray weathers to shades of yellow-brown; mostly very fine to medium grained, locally conglomeratic; thin to massive to cross bedded; locally calcareous. Limestone and coal; thin and discontinuous. Limestone, black, gray and green; micritic to coarse grained; thin bedded to concretionary with marine fossils common in lower half of interval; thin to medium bedded, nonmarine limestone common in upper half of unit. Coal, thin, bituminous, impure; very locally thick enough for economic development. Lateral and vertical lithic variability and gradation common. Unit as much as 500 feet thick.
State Ohio
Name Conemaugh Group
Geologic age Pennsylvanian
Lithologic constituents
Major
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone (Calcareous)black, gray, green, red, and yellow, variegated in part; clayey to silty; locally calcareous; commonly nonbedded.
Sedimentary > Clastic > Siltstonegray, green and red, locally variegated; clayed to sandy; thin bedded to nonbedded.
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale (Calcareous)black, gray, green and red; clayey to silty; locally contains marine fossils in lower half of unit; calcareous in part.
Minor
Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone (Bed, Calcareous)green-gray weathers to shades of yellow-brown; mostly very fine to medium grained, locally conglomeratic; thin to massive to cross bedded; locally calcareous.
Incidental
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed)limestone: black, gray and green; micritic to coarse grained; thin bedded to concretionary with marine fossils common in lower half of interval; thin to medium bedded, nonmarine limestone common in upper half of unit.
Sedimentary > Coal > Bituminouscoal: thin, bituminous, impure; very locally thick enough for economic development.
References

Slucher, E.R., (principal compiler), Swinford, E.M., Larsen, G.E., and others, with GIS production and cartography by Powers, D.M., 2006, Bedrock geologic map of Ohio: Ohio Division of Geological Survey Map BG-1, version 6.0, scale 1:500,000.

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