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Geologic Unit: Nye
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Nye shale
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Western Columbia basin
Publication:

Smith, W.D., 1926, Physical and economic geography of Oregon; the Coast Range province: University of Oregon, Commonwealth Review, v. 8, nos. 2-3, p. 254-297.


Summary:

Pg. 269. Nye shale. Shales of late Oligocene age. Type locality in Lincoln County, northwestern Oregon. Regarded as older than Aturia bed and younger than Eugene formation.
[Name adopted from ms. rpt. of H.G. Schenck; see H.G. Schenck, 1928, California Univ. Pub., Dept. Geol. Sci. Bull., v. 18., no. 1, table opp. p. 4.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1522-1523).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Nye shale
  • Modifications:
    • Principal reference
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Western Columbia basin
Publication:

Schenck, H.G., 1927, Marine Oligocene of Oregon: University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, v. 16, no. 12, p. 449-460.


Summary:

Pg. 450, 456, 459. Nye shale. Dark concretionary shales; on fresh exposures black, massive, jointed, and might more properly be termed a mudstone. [No thickness given.] Replaces "Acila shales" (paleontologic term) of Harrison and Eaton. Underlies, probably unconformably, the Miocene deposits of the area and rests, with apparent unconformity, on Yaquina formation. Assigned to upper Oligocene.
Type locality: town of Newport and at Nye Beach, in NW/4 sec. 5, T. 11 S., R. 11 W., Lincoln Co., northwestern OR.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1522-1523).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Nye shale
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Western Columbia basin
Publication:

Schenck, H.G., 1928, Stratigraphic relations of western Oregon Oligocene formations: University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, v. 18, no. 1, 50 p.


Summary:

Table opp. p. 4. Nye shale of Smith, 1926, was adoped from ms. rpt. of H.G. Schenck. [Age is late Oligocene.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1522-1523).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Nye mudstone*
  • Modifications:
    • Adopted
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Western Columbia basin
Publication:

Vokes, H.E., Norbisrath, Hans, and Snavely, P.D., Jr., 1949, Geology of the Newport-Waldport area, Lincoln and Lane Counties, Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey Oil and Gas Investigations Preliminary Map, OM-88, 1 sheet, scale 1:62,500


Summary:

Nye mudstone. Described in Newport-Waldport area, [northwestern Oregon], as sequence of approximately 2,500 feet of black massive mudstones. Disconformably overlies Yaquina sandstone; unconformably underlies Astoria formation. [Age is early Miocene.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 2786).


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