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  • Usage in publication:
    • Hartridge shale
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Reger, D.B., and Teets, D.D., Jr., 1918, Barbour and Upshur Counties and western portion of Randolph County [West Virginia, with sections by I.C. White, C.E. Van Orstrand, and W.A. Price]: West Virginia Geological Survey [County Reports and Maps], [CGR-1], 867 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:62,500)


Summary:

Pg. 288. Hartridge black shale of Pottsville group. Dark-gray to black shale, through which fossiliferous hard black concretions are scattered in large numbers. Thickness is 5 to 6 feet. Underlies Lower Guyandot sandstone and overlies Sewell coal. [Age is Pennsylvanian.]
Exposed at Hartridge, Randolph Co., northern WV.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 918-919).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Hartridge shale
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Price, P.H., and Heck, E.T., 1939, Greenbrier County [West Virginia, with a section on paleontology by J.L. Tilton and Dana Wells]: West Virginia Geological Survey [County Reports and Maps], [CGR-7], 846 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:62,500)


Summary:

Included as part of New River group of Pottsville series. Consists of dark to black argillaceous laminated shale containing plant fossils. Thickness is up to 5 ft. Underlies lower Guyandot sandstone; separated from underlying Welch sandstone by Sewell coal.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Hartridge shale
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Rice, C.L., Hiett, J.K., and Koozmin, E.D., 1994, Glossary of Pennsylvanian stratigraphic names, central Appalachian basin, IN Rice, C.L., ed., Elements of Pennsylvanian stratigraphy, central Appalachian basin: Geological Society of America Special Paper, 294, p. 115-155.


Summary:

Hartridge is an unranked brackish to marginal marine and plant-bearing shale cropping out in the Middle Fork district of Randolph Co., WV. Occurs in the New River Formation directly above Sewell coal.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


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