Borden Formation

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Borden Formation
Stratigraphic range: Mississippian
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Turbidites of Farmers Member of Borden Formation at mile marker 135, Interstate 64, Kentucky
TypeSedimentary
Sub-unitsKentucky:
  • New Providence Shale
  • Kenwood Siltstone
  • Nancy Holtsclaw Siltstone
  • Muldraugh, [1]
  • Farmers, [2] [3]
  • Nada
  • Cowbell
  • Renfro [4]

Indiana:

ThicknessKentucky: 0–200 m (0–656 ft) [5]
Lithology
Primary Shale, siltstone, sandstone
Other Limestone
Location
RegionKentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, Tennessee
CountryFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Extent Cincinnati Arch, Appalachian Basin, Illinois Basin
Type section
Named for Borden, Clark County, Indiana
Named byCummings
Year defined1922 [6]

The Mississippian Borden Group (sometimes Borden Formation) is a mapped bedrock unit in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, [7] and Tennessee. It has many members, which has led some geologists to consider it a group (for example in Indiana [8] ) rather than a formation (for example in Kentucky [1] [4] ).

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Fossils

A rare soft-bodied fossil that was recovered from the Farmers Member of the Borden Formation in northeastern Kentucky was interpreted as a chondrophorine float (an internal anatomical feature). [13]

Trace fossils

Zoophycos is present in the turbidites of the Farmers Member of the Borden Formation in Kentucky.

Stratigraphy

There are three members of the Borden Group in Indiana.

Edwardsville Formation

Edwardsville Formation
Stratigraphic range: Mississippian
Type Formation
Unit of Borden Group
Underlies Muldraugh Formation and Ramp Creek Formation
Overlies Spickert Knob Formation
Location
RegionIndiana
CountryUnited States

The Edwardsville Formation is a geological structure in the Borden Group, of the Lower Mississippian sub system, [14] (Osagean, late Tournaisian). Crinoids fossils can be found in the formation. [15]

New Providence Shale

New Providence Shale
Stratigraphic range: Mississippian
Type Formation
Unit of Borden Group
Underlies Spickert Knob Formation
Overlies Coldwater Shale and Rockford Limestone
Location
RegionIndiana
CountryUnited States

The New Providence Shale is a geologic formation in Indiana. It 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). [16]

Spickert Knob Formation

Spickert Knob Formation
Stratigraphic range: Mississippian
Type Formation
Unit of Borden Group
Underlies Edwardsville Formation
Overlies New Providence Shale
Location
RegionIndiana
CountryUnited States

The Spickert Knob Formation is a geologic formation in Indiana.

References

  1. 1 2 Kepferle, R.C., 1971, Members of the Borden Formation (Mississippian) in north-central Kentucky, IN Contributions to stratigraphy, 1971: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1354-B, p. B1–B18.
  2. Peck, J.H., 1969, Geologic map of the Flemingsburg quadrangle, Fleming and Mason Counties, Kentucky: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map, GQ-837, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000
  3. Weir, G.W., 1976, Geologic map of the Means quadrangle, east-central Kentucky: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map, GQ-1324, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000
  4. 1 2 Weir, G.W., Gualtieri, J.L., and Schlanger, S.O., 1966, Borden Formation (Mississippian) in south- and southeast-central Kentucky, IN Contributions to stratigraphy, 1965: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1224-F, p. F1–F38.
  5. Chesnut, D.R., Jr., 1992, Stratigraphic and structural framework of the Carboniferous rocks of the central Appalachian basin in Kentucky: Kentucky Geological Survey Bulletin, 11th series, no. 3, 42 p.
  6. Cumings, E.R., 1922, Nomenclature and description of the geological formations of Indiana, IN Logan, W.N., and others, Handbook of Indiana Geology: Indiana Division of Geology Publication, no. 21, p. 403–570
  7. Matchen, D.L., and Kammer, T.W., 1994, Sequence stratigraphy of the Lower Mississippian Price and Borden Formations in southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky: Southeastern Geology, v. 34, no. 1, p. 25–41.
  8. Shaver, R.H., Burger, A.M., Gates, G.R., Gray, H.H., and others, 1970, Compendium of rock-unit stratigraphy in Indiana: Indiana Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 43, 229 p.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 http://www.kyanageo.org/mississippian.html KYANA Geological Society (Mississippian)
  10. David M. Work and Charles E. Mason. 2003. Mississippian (Middle Osagean) Ammonoids from the Nada Member of the Borden Formation, Kentucky, Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 77, No. 3 (May, 2003), pp. 593-596
  11. Kammer, T.W., W. I. Ausich, and A. Goldstein. 2007. Gilmocrinus kentuckyensis n. sp. from the late Osgean (Mississippian) Muldraugh Member of the Borden Formation in Kentucky: a European immigrant originally derived from North America? Journal of Paleontology, 81:209-212.
  12. Lee, K.G., W.I. Ausich, and T.W. Kammer. 2005. Crinoids from the Nada Member of the Borden Formation (Lower Mississippian) in eastern Kentucky. Journal of Paleontology, 79:337-355.
  13. Ellis L. Yochelson and Charles E. Mason. 1986. A Chondrophorine Coelenterate from the Borden Formation (Lower Mississippian) of Kentucky, Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 60, No. 5 (September 1986), pp. 1025-1028
  14. Edwardsville Formation at the Indiana Geological Survey
  15. Crinoids from the Edwardsville Formation (Lower Mississippian) of Southern Indiana. William I. Ausich and N. Gary Lane, Journal of Paleontology, November 1982, Volume 56, Number 6, pages 1343-1361 (abstract)
  16. Stockdale 1986, p. 7.

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