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Geologic Units: Aberdeen
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Aberdeen sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Illinois basin
Publication:

Crider, A.F., 1915, The coals of the Little Muddy quadrangle [Kentucky]: Kentucky Geological Survey [Report], 4th series, v. 3, pt. 1, p. 155-182.


Summary:

Pg. 173-175. Aberdeen sandstone. Coarse, massive, cliff-forming sandstone, 40 feet thick, forming steep cliffs in region of Aberdeen, Butler County, [Kentucky]. Forms bluff on which Morgantown is situated. Base of sandstone is 75 feet above low water at Morgantown. Either rests on Aberdeen coal or is separated from it by 4 to 6 feet of shale. Well-marked erosional unconformity at base.
[Named from Aberdeen, Butler Co., KY, where it stands out in prominent cliffs along Green River. Typically exposed at Aberdeen Ferry.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 8).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Aberdeen sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Illinois basin
Publication:

Wanless, H.R., 1939, Pennsylvanian correlations in the Eastern Interior and Appalachian coal fields: Geological Society of America Special Paper, 17, 130 p.


Summary:

Pg. 33. Aberdeen sandstone. Noted as occurring in Illinois and Indiana.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 8).


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  • Usage in publication:
    • Aberdeen sandstone [unranked]
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Illinois basin
Publication:

Moore, R.C. (chairman), 1944, Correlation of Pennsylvanian formations of North America; Chart No. 6, Correlation chart of Pennsylvanian rocks of North America: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 55, no. 6, p. 657-706., Prepared by the Pennsylvanian Subcommittee, R.C. Moore, chairman, under the auspices of the National Research Council Committee on Stratigraphy, C.O. Dunbar, chairman


Summary:

Chart no. 6 (column 26, western Kentucky, collated by H.R. Wanless and J.M. Weller). Aberdeen sandstone [unranked]. Shown on Pennsylvanian correlation chart as sandstone in Tradewater formation. Occurs below Mannington coal and above Ice House coal, both of Tradewater formation. Age is [Middle Pennsylvanian]; earliest Desmoinesian; earliest Westphalian C (base of Westphalian C = Aegir bed).

Source: Publication; US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 8).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Aberdeen sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Illinois basin
Publication:

Cooper, C.L., 1946, Pennsylvanian ostracodes of Illinois: Illinois Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 70, 177 p. [Includes faunal chart, available online from the Illinois Geological Survey library: http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/library]


Summary:

Pg. 14 (fig. 2). Aberdeen sandstone. Shown on correlation chart as sandstone in Tradewater group. Below Rock Island coal and above Pope Creek coal.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 8).


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