Bedford Shale at Brandywine Falls on Brandywine Creek near Boston Heights, Ohio
Type
Formation
Unit of
Waverly Group
Underlies
Berea Sandstone
Overlies
Cussewago Sandstone, Cleveland Shale, and Ohio Shale
Location
Country
United States
Type section
Named for
Bedford, Ohio, U.S.
The Bedford Shale is a shale geologic formation in the states of Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia in the United States.
The BedfordShale is a shale geologic formation in the states of Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia in the United States...
(46 m) of BedfordShale may lie above the Cleveland Shale. In places, red and grey shale may intertongue (interlock) with the Cleveland Shale extensively...
from each other. The sandstone overlies the BedfordShale and the Ohio Shale and underlies the Sunbury Shale. Berea Sandstone is light gray to buff-colored...
(Group) is a geologic formation in New York. It is equivalent the Harrell Shale in Pennsylvania. It date back to the Upper Devonian period. It is the basal...
Facies-defining cycles are divided into grainy carbonate, muddy carbonate, sandstone, shale, and Stromatolitic–Algal mat Boundstones. Stromatolite reefs are a common...
Along its banks and tributaries Berea sandstone, Bedfordshale, Cleveland Shale, and Chagrin Shale bedrock, are exposed in layers. The river itself was...
and the BedfordShale were deposited in a river delta environment in the Lower Mississippian. River channels were incised into the BedfordShale and subsequently...
The Marcellus Formation or the Marcellus Shale is a Middle Devonian age unit of sedimentary rock found in eastern North America. Named for a distinctive...
is shale. The Rhinestreet Member can be further subdivided into two shale types: a thick, fissile black shale underlies a gray to greenish-gray shale that...
Rhinestreet Shale is a geologic formation in the Appalachian Basin. It dates back to the Devonian period. The Rhinestreet is an organic or Black Shale found...
The Utica Shale is a stratigraphical unit of Upper Ordovician age in the Appalachian Basin. It underlies much of the northeastern United States and adjacent...
Chagrin Shale is a shale geologic formation in the eastern United States that is approximately 365 million years old. The Chagrin Shale is a gray shale that...
of the Salina. The Salina Formation is composed chiefly of dolomite and shale, interbedded with anhydrite, gypsum, and salt. Stratigraphically, the Salina...
period. The groups consists of the following formations: BedfordShale Berea Sandstone Sunbury Shale Cuyahoga Formation Logan Formation Maxville Limestone...
Geologic Map Database. The formation comprises dolomites, limestones and shales and reaches a thickness of 495 feet (151 m) in the subsurface, while in...
are also layers with much higher clay contend resulting in a calcareous shale. To the east the Tully becomes siliciclastic. This is due to sediments being...
Gildersleeve Mountain. Bedfordshale is a sand shale and is characterized by its roughly 90° cleavage pattern. Pieces of Bedfordshale can look as if they...
around the graben, leaving this area without its protective layer of Bedfordshale and more susceptible to erosion. The sunken graben area then became...
The Burket Shale or Geneseo Shale is the lowest member of the Harrell Shale/Genessee Group. The Burket is an organic-rich black shale that rests just above...
stratigraphic equivalent of the New Albany Shale in the Illinois Basin. It is overlain by the BedfordShale, and underlain in some areas by the Jordan...
the state in which it occurs: Alton Coal Member, Anthony Shale Member, Bear Run Member, Bedford Clay Bed, Boggs Member, Boyles Sandstone Member, Bremen...
The Devonian Needmore Formation or Needmore Shale is a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. The Needmore Formation...