New Providence Shale

New Providence Shale
Stratigraphic range: Mississippian
TypeFormation
Unit ofBorden Group
UnderliesSpickert Knob Formation
OverliesColdwater Shale and Rockford Limestone
Location
RegionIndiana
CountryUnited States

The New Providence Shale is a basal clay-shale geologic formation in Indiana named by Charles Butts and William W. Borden in the 1874 after New Providence, Indiana (now Borden).[1]

References

  1. ^ Stockdale 1986, p. 7.

Sources

  • Stockdale, Paris B. (1986). Lower Mississippian Rocks of the East-Central Interior. Geological Society of America Special Paper. Geological Society of America. ISBN 978-0-8137-2022-7. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
  • Generalized Stratigraphic Column of Indiana Bedrock[dead link‍]


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