- Usage in publication:
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- Olinger gray shale member
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Shale
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Appalachian basin
Summary:
Pg. 485-499. Olinger gray shale member of Chattanooga shale. Middle gray shale member of Chattanooga shale at Chattanooga, southern Tennessee, and in southwestern Virginia. Best exposed at Olinger, Virginia. Varies in thickness from 0 to 54 feet 5 inches at Olinger, Virginia. Unconformably underlies Big Stone Gap shale member (the upper black shale member of Chattanooga shale) and overlies Cumberland Gap shale member (the lower black shale member of Chattanooga shale). The Olinger member is of same age as [upper part of] Cumberland Gap member, with which it intertongues to south, representing merely a different environment condition. [Age is Devonian or Carboniferous.]
See also Wilmarth, M.G., compiler, 1929, Tentative correlation of the named geologic units of Tennessee, USGS unpub. corr. chart, Aug., 1929, sheet 2 of 4, and Tentative correlation of the named geologic units of Virginia, USGS unpub. Corr. Chart, Apr., 1929, sheet 2 of 2.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1544).
- Usage in publication:
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- Olinger gray shale member
- Modifications:
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- Age modified
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Appalachian basin
Summary:
Pg. 431-448. Olinger gray shale member of Chattanooga shale. Assigned these beds to Mississippian.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1544).
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