Rockwood Formation and Clinch Sandstone (TNSrc;12)

Rockwood Formation and Clinch Sandstone

Rockwood Formation - Brown to maroon shale, thin gray siltstone and sandstone, and thin lenticular layers of oolitic and fossiliferous red hematite. Thickness 350 to 550 feet; Clinch Sandstone - Clean, white, well-sorted sandstone; locally gray siltstone and shale. Average thickness about 600 feet.

State	Tennessee
Name	Rockwood Formation and Clinch Sandstone
Geologic age	Silurian
Lithologic constituents	Major Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale Minor Sedimentary > Clastic > Siltstone
Comments	East 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	Anderson - Claiborne - Grainger - Hancock - Union

Rockwood Formation and Clinch Sandstone

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