Predominantly greenish-gray argillite; contains variable but generally very minor amounts of quartz-rich siltstone and very fine sandstone in beds 2–15 cm thick (Curtis and others, 1990; Ellersieck and others, 1990; Mayfield and others, 1990; Mull and others, 1994; Dover and others, 2004). Base contains a distinctive dark-gray, evenly laminated, glauconitic, phosphatic siltstone bed up to 1 m thick (Mull and others, 1994). Greenish-gray chert is common as interbeds in the argillite at several horizons, the most striking of which is the topmost zone of the formation where argillite is greatly subordinate to chert. Thickness is less than 100 m (Mull and others, 1994). Contains mainly Pennsylvanian to Late Triassic radiolarians; but locally has yielded Early Jurassic radiolarians, which may properly belong to the Blankenship Member of the Otuk Formation (unit JTro). Ages of radiolarian collections from this unit include Permian (possibly middle and late Permian), Middle and Late Triassic (probably Ladinian, Carnian, and Norian), and Early Jurassic (Hettangian or Sinemurian) (Dover and others, 2004). As mapped, locally may include rocks of the Sadlerochit Group