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  • Usage in publication:
    • Bratton sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Reger, D.B., and Price, P.H., 1926, Mercer, Monroe, and Summers Counties [West Virginia, with sections on paleobotany and paleontology by D.B. Reger, David White, G.H. Girty, and W.P. Prouty]: West Virginia Geological Survey [County Reports and Maps], [CGR-15], 963 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:62,500)


Summary:

Pg. 293, 317. Bratton sandstone. Green, flaggy, or massive, fine-grained sandstone, 5 to 20 feet thick. Underlies Hunt shale and overlies Bratton shale (all members of Bluestone group [Bluestone formation]). Type locality near extreme head of Bratton Branch of Brush Creek, in Mercer Co., southeastern West Virginia. Age is Mississippian.
[The Bluestone group is a term used by some geologists to include same rocks as Bluestone formation of USGS reports (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896, p. 222).]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 255).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Bratton sandstone member
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
    • Redefined
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Cooper, B.N., 1944, Geology and mineral resources of the Burkes Garden quadrangle, Virginia: Virginia Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 60, 299 p.


Summary:

Pg. 185, pl. 15. Geographically extended into Virginia and redefined as member of Bluestone formation. Thickness about 10 feet. Overlies Belcher member; underlies Bent Mountain member (new). Consists of greenish-gray, micaceous, silty sandstone.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 458).


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