Borden Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: Mississippian | |
![]() Turbidites of Farmers Member of Borden Formation at mile marker 135, Interstate 64, Kentucky | |
Type | Sedimentary |
Sub-units | Kentucky: |
Thickness | Kentucky: 0–200 m (0–656 ft) [5] |
Lithology | |
Primary | Shale, siltstone, sandstone |
Other | Limestone |
Location | |
Region | Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, Tennessee |
Country | ![]() |
Extent | Cincinnati Arch, Appalachian Basin, Illinois Basin |
Type section | |
Named for | Borden, Clark County, Indiana |
Named by | Cummings |
Year defined | 1922 [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] ).
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]
Zoophycos is present in the turbidites of the Farmers Member of the Borden Formation in Kentucky.
There are three members of the Borden Group in Indiana.
Edwardsville Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: Mississippian | |
Type | Formation |
Unit of | Borden Group |
Underlies | Muldraugh Formation and Ramp Creek Formation |
Overlies | Spickert Knob Formation |
Location | |
Region | Indiana |
Country | United 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 | |
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Stratigraphic range: Mississippian | |
Type | Formation |
Unit of | Borden Group |
Underlies | Spickert Knob Formation |
Overlies | Coldwater Shale and Rockford Limestone |
Location | |
Region | Indiana |
Country | United 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 | |
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Stratigraphic range: Mississippian | |
Type | Formation |
Unit of | Borden Group |
Underlies | Edwardsville Formation |
Overlies | New Providence Shale |
Location | |
Region | Indiana |
Country | United States |
The Spickert Knob Formation is a geologic formation in Indiana.