Chattanooga Shale

Chattanooga Shale
Stratigraphic range: Devonian
Type Formation
Underlies Maury Shale
Overlies Unconformity on Ordovician Leipers Limestone and other units [1]
Lithology
Primary Shale
Other Sandstone
Location
Region Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia,[1] and Missouri[2]
Country United States

The Chattanooga Shale is a geologic formation in Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee. It preserves conodont fossils dating to the Devonian Period.[1] It occurs mostly as a subsurface geologic formation composed of layers of shale. It is located in Eastern Tennessee and also extends into southeastern Kentucky, northeastern Georgia, and northern Alabama. This part of Alabama is part of the Black Warrior Basin.[1]

The Chattanooga Shale of east Tennessee is reported to be an extension of or correlates with the Marcellus Shale of the Appalachian region to the east.[3] Exploratory drilling of the Chattanooga Shale in east Tennessee indicates that it contains significant amounts of natural gas. This has resulted in interest in and attempts to use hydraulic fracturing to exploit the resource.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 USGS Professional Paper 357, Chattanooga Shale and Related Rocks of Central Tennessee and Nearby Areas. by Louis C. Conant and Yernon E. Swanson, 1961
  2. ↑ Thompson, Thomas L., 2001, Lexicon of Stratigraphic Nomenclature in Missouri, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Land Survey, Report of Investigation Number 73, p 60
  3. ↑ Chattanooga Shale Natural Gas Field, oilshalegas.com
  4. ↑ "Chattanooga Shale Stocks". Energy and Capital.


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