Sequatchie Formation (Ulrich, 1913). Siltstone, limestone, and shale. Siltstone, calcareous, medium-gray to grayish-red, maroon, and green, even and wavy thin-beds. Limestone, argillaceous, gray, greenish-gray, and grayish-red to dusky-red, nodular, in 1-inch to 3-feet thick planar beds. Shale, grayish-red. Percentage of each lithotype varies throughout the lateral and vertical extent of the formation. The Sequatchie Formation ranges from 250 to 440 feet in thickness. Laterally equivalent to the Juniata Formation. Reedsville Shale (Ulrich, 1911). Shale, siltstone, and minor limestone. Shale, locally silty, calcareous, yellowish gray, grayish-olive, greenish-gray, and medium-gray. Siltstone, calcareous, greenish-gray to olive-gray, in 1- to 2-inch thick planar beds. Limestone, medium- to dark-gray, fine- to coarse-grained, fossiliferous, in 6-inch thick beds; and silty to argillaceous, medium-light-gray to medium-dark-gray and olive-gray, micrograined to medium-grained limestone, generally in 1- to 2-inch thick planar beds. A few very-fine grained sandstone beds are present within the unit. The shales are predominant throughout most of southwestern Virginia (Miller and Brosgé, 1954; Miller and Fuller, 1954). Siltstones and limestones are subordinate to and interbedded with the shales. The Reedsville Shale ranges from 275 feet in Lee County to approximately 1000 feet in Frederick County. It is equivalent to the upper Martinsburg of previous reports in western Virginia and is conformable with the underlying Trenton Limestone and Dolly Ridge Formation. Trenton Limestone (Vanuxem, 1838). Limestone, medium-light-gray to dark-gray and brownish-gray, micrograined to medium-grained, fossiliferous, thin- to medium-bedded, wavy- to platy-bedded with grayish-yellow and dark-gray shale partings, minor olive-black chert nodules; and one bentonite bed noted in western Scott County (Harris and Miller, 1958). (See Eggleston Formation description for additional discussion of the bentonite beds). Locally some of the dark-colored beds emit a petroliferous odor when broken. The Trenton Limestone ranges from 300 to 600 feet in thickness. Eggleston Formation (Matthews, 1934). Mudstone, siltstone, limestone, and bentonite. Mudstone and siltstone, light-gray, greenish-gray and yellowish-gray, locally contains gray and white mottled calcite patches and stringers. Limestone, light-olive-gray to olive-gray and light-brown, aphanic to medium-grained, thin-bedded; with argillaceous, yellowish-gray, micrograined to medium-grained limestone. Two thick (1-3 feet), greenish-gray, bentonite beds in upper part of unit. Olive-black chert nodules are locally present. Mudstone is dominant in lower and locally in upper part; light-olive-gray to olive-gray limestone is dominant in middle part of unit. The Eggleston Formation ranges from 125 to 180 feet in thickness. Haynes (1992) reported on three K-bentonite beds in the Trenton and Eggleston Limestones and the Moccasin Formation in the Valley and Ridge Province of southwest Virginia. The uppermost K-bentonite bed has not been correlated regionally and is known locally as the V-7. The lower two K-bentonite beds have been identified from regional correlations as the Deicke K-bentonite overlain by the Millbrig K-bentonite.