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Brainard Shale
Stratigraphic range: Ordovician
TypeFormation
Unit ofMaquoketa Group
UnderliesBrassfield Limestone, Cataract Formation, and Sexton Creek Limestone
OverliesFort Atkinson Limestone
Location
RegionIllinois, Indiana
CountryUnited States

The Brainard Shale is a geologic formation in Illinois. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period.

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Brainard Shale

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The Brainard Shale is a geologic formation in Illinois. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period. List of fossiliferous stratigraphic...

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Pope Mega Group

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sandstones at its base into mix of limestones and sandstone and then a shale at its top. In Southern Illinois oil wells are drilled into the Tar Springs...

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Knox Supergroup

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Facies-defining cycles are divided into grainy carbonate, muddy carbonate, sandstone, shale, and Stromatolitic–Algal mat Boundstones. Stromatolite reefs are a common...

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Hunton Megagroup

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Basin. The top of the formation is mostly dark-gray to black dolomitic shale. This is occasionally interbedded very fine grained limestone, that is mostly...

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Munising Group

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Missouri by Buehler (1907, p. 231). The formation is composed of Siltstone, Shale, Limestone and Dolomite. The rock of the Davis Formation is a graditional...

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Embayment Megagroup

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Marcus Dolomite Aeronian Hunton Megagroup Sexton Creek Limestone Rhuddanian Bowling Green Dolomite Brainard Shale Fort Atkinson Limestone Neda Formation...

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Muscatatuck Group

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Muscatatuck underlies the New Albany Shale throughout of its extent, except in Northern Indiana where it underlies the Antrim Shale. The North Vernon Limestone...

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Carbondale Group

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Colchester Coal, Mecca Quarry Shale, Velpen Limestone, and Survant Coal Members, and unnamed units of sandstone, shale, and clay". It preserves fossils...

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Trenton Group

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Sexton Creek Limestone St. Clair Limestone Wabash Formation Waldron Shale O Brainard Shale Dillsboro Formation Dutchtown Formation Everton Dolomite Fort Atkinson...

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Paoli Formation

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medium in hue. The limestone is fairly clean, with small amounts of clay and shale. It contains a variety of textures, the most noted are micritic, oolitic...

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Scales Shale

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The Scales Shale is a geologic formation in Illinois. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period. List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units...

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Hardinsburg Formation

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Sexton Creek Limestone St. Clair Limestone Wabash Formation Waldron Shale O Brainard Shale Dillsboro Formation Dutchtown Formation Everton Dolomite Fort Atkinson...

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New Albany Shale

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The New Albany Shale is an organic-rich geologic formation of Devonian and Mississippian age in the Illinois Basin of the United States. It is a major...

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New Harmony Group

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Sexton Creek Limestone St. Clair Limestone Wabash Formation Waldron Shale O Brainard Shale Dillsboro Formation Dutchtown Formation Everton Dolomite Fort Atkinson...

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Mount Simon Sandstone

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system. The middle Mount Simon is a fine to medium grained sandstone with shale beds in it, which is interpreted to be in a high-energy delta. Finally,...

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Maquoketa Group

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the Fort Atkinson is the Brainard Formation. The Brainard is generally a greenish gray to gray dolomitic soft to hard shale. It contains abundant fossils...

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Sugar Run Dolomite

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Marcus Dolomite Aeronian Hunton Megagroup Sexton Creek Limestone Rhuddanian Bowling Green Dolomite Brainard Shale Fort Atkinson Limestone Neda Formation...

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Buffalo Wallow Group

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needed] The Buffalo Wallow Group is made up of approximately 70% Shale including fissile shales, claystones, and siltstones. The remaining lithology is made...

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Wisconsin

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Manistique Formation Silurian Maquoketa Formation Ordovician Maquoketa Group/Brainard Shale Formation Ordovician Maquoketa Group/Fort Atkinson Formation Ordovician...

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Patoka Formation

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Sexton Creek Limestone St. Clair Limestone Wabash Formation Waldron Shale O Brainard Shale Dillsboro Formation Dutchtown Formation Everton Dolomite Fort Atkinson...

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Bond Formation

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Sexton Creek Limestone St. Clair Limestone Wabash Formation Waldron Shale O Brainard Shale Dillsboro Formation Dutchtown Formation Everton Dolomite Fort Atkinson...

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Neda Formation

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Marcus Dolomite Aeronian Hunton Megagroup Sexton Creek Limestone Rhuddanian Bowling Green Dolomite Brainard Shale Fort Atkinson Limestone Neda Formation...

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Kope Formation

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component bedrock formations of the Maquoketa Group that primarily consists of shale (75%) with some limestone (25%) interbedded. In general, it has a bluish-gray...

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Salem Limestone

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Sexton Creek Limestone St. Clair Limestone Wabash Formation Waldron Shale O Brainard Shale Dillsboro Formation Dutchtown Formation Everton Dolomite Fort Atkinson...

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Harrodsburg Limestone

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calcarenite and calcirudite. It also may include some beds of dolomite and shale. Harrodsburg Limestone is found throughout the part of the Illinois Basin...

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Mattoon Formation

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Sexton Creek Limestone St. Clair Limestone Wabash Formation Waldron Shale O Brainard Shale Dillsboro Formation Dutchtown Formation Everton Dolomite Fort Atkinson...

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Fort Atkinson Limestone

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Formation Unit of Maquoketa Group Underlies Brainard Shale and Whitewater Formation Overlies Scales Shale Location Region Illinois, Indiana Country United...

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