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APPENDIX. 



Section in Eastern Tennessee. 



Names of Formations. 



Thickness 

 in Feet. 



Characteristics. 





Summit removed by 

 erosion. 



Anderson sandstone. 



1000 + 



Interbedded with sandy and argillaceous 

 shales and thin coal-beds. 



.2 



'5 

 > 



Scott shale. 



500-650 



Argillaceous and sandy, with beds of sand- 

 stone and thin coal-seams. 



5? 







Wartburg sandstone. 



500-600 



Argillaceous shale, and coal-beds, interbedded. 



CD 



Briceville shale. 



250-650 



Black, bluish-gray, and gray; also thin beds of 

 sandy shale, sandstone, and thick coal-beds. 





Lee conglomerate. 



Possible Unconformity 

 Pennington shale. 



500-1500 



Massive sandstone and conglomerate, thin 

 shale-beds, and coal-seams. 



1 



p. 



160-400 



Calcareous shale, sandstone, and limestone. 



'S3 < 



oq 



'1 



Newman limestone. 



650-700 



Massive, blue, with shale-beds. 



Massive beds of chert and cherty limestone. 



3 



d 



5 H 



Grainger shale. 



1200 



3. Red and yellow sandy shale. 



2. Massive white sandstone. 



1. Greenish and bluish-gray; arenaceous. 



o 

 > 



p 



Chattanooga black 

 shale. 



30-50 



Black, calcareous. 





« J Clinch sandstone. 



6 



Present only in one small area. 





Bays sandstone. 



300-1100 



Red, calcareous. 





Sevier shale. 



500-600 



Light-blue calcareous shale. 





200-400 



Bluish-gray and red calcareous sandstone and 

 shale. 





500-600 



Light-blue calcareous slate. 



o 



500-650 



Bluish-gray and gray calcareous sandstone and 

 shale. 



73 



o 



500-750 



Light-blue, calcareous. 





Tellico sandstone. 



800-900 



Bluish-gray and gray, calcareous, with some 

 shale. 





Athens shale. 



1000-1200 



Light-blue and black; calcareous. 





Chickamauga limestone 



0-50 



Gray, argillaceous. 



9 



I 

 Knox dolomite. 



3500 



White, gray, light- and dark-blue, with chert. 



i Keith, U. S. Geol. Surv. Formations above the base of the Mississippian are taken from the 

 Briceville (Tenn.) folio; the remainder from the Knoxville (Tenn.-N. C.) folio. The Ordovician 

 and Silurian formations are classed as Silurian in these folios. 



