Fort Payne Formation and Chattanooga Shale (TNMfp;2)

Fort Payne Formation and Chattanooga Shale

Fort Payne Formation - Bedded chert and calcereous and dolomitic silicastone; minor coarse-grained limestone and shale. Thin green shale (Maury) at base. Thickness about 200 feet. Chattanooga Shale - Black carbonaceous shale, fissile. Thickness 0 to 70 feet.

State	Tennessee
Name	Fort Payne Formation and Chattanooga Shale
Geologic age	Mississippian
Lithologic constituents	Major Sedimentary > Chemical > Chert Minor Sedimentary > Clastic > Siltstone Incidental Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale > Black-shale Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale
Comments	West sheet - Chattanooga Shale - Mapped as MDc on East-Central and East sheets of the 1966 paper geologic map of Tennessee
References	Greene, D.C., and Wolfe, W.J., 2000, Superfund GIS - 1:250,000 Geology of Tennessee, USGS, (geo250k). Hardeman, W.D., Miller, R.A., and Swingle, G.D., 1966, Geologic Map of Tennessee: Division of Geology, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, 4 sheets, scale 1:250,000
NGMDB product	NGMDB product page for 91768
Counties	Benton - Decatur - Hardin - Henry - Humphreys - Perry - Stewart - Wayne

Fort Payne Formation and Chattanooga Shale

Greene, D.C., and Wolfe, W.J., 2000, Superfund GIS - 1:250,000 Geology of Tennessee, USGS, (geo250k).

Hardeman, W.D., Miller, R.A., and Swingle, G.D., 1966, Geologic Map of Tennessee: Division of Geology, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, 4 sheets, scale 1:250,000