Fort Payne Formation
Template:Short description Template:Infobox rockunit Template:Sister project The Fort Payne Formation, or Fort Payne Chert, is a geologic formation found in the southeastern region of the United States.[1] It is a Mississippian Period cherty limestone, that overlies the Chattanooga Shale (or locally the Maury Formation), and underlies the St. Louis Limestone (lower Tuscumbia Limestone in Alabama). To the north, it grades into the siltstone Borden Formation.[1] It preserves fossils dating back to the Carboniferous period.[2]
Eugene Allen Smith named the Fort Payne Formation for outcrops at Fort Payne, Alabama.
See also
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- Mississippian (geologic period)
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Kentucky
References
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- ↑ a b USGS.gov: Fort Payne Formation
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- Geologic formations of Alabama
- Mississippian United States
- Carboniferous Alabama
- Carboniferous Kentucky
- Carboniferous Tennessee
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- Limestone formations of the United States
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- Carboniferous southern paleotemperate deposits
- Carboniferous southern paleotropical deposits
- Geologic formations of Kentucky
- Geologic formations of Tennessee
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