Carters Limestone (TNOca;8)

Carters Limestone

Fine-grained, yellowish-brown limestone; thin-bedded in upper part; thicker bedded and very slightly cherty with scattered mottlings of magnesian limestone in lower part. Contains thin bentonite beds. Thickness 60 to 250 feet.

State	Tennessee
Name	Carters Limestone
Geologic age	Ordovician
Lithologic constituents	Major Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone Incidental Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Claystone > Bentonite
Comments	East-Central sheet
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	Bledsoe - Cannon - Cumberland - DeKalb - Marion - Sequatchie - Smith

Carters Limestone

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