APPENDIX. 

 Section in Eastern Tennessee — Continued. 



549 



Names of Formations 



Thickness 

 in Feet. 



Characteristics. 



If 



- 



Nolichucky shale. 



450-550 



Yellow and brown, calcareous, with limestone- 

 beds. 



2 



5 



Maryville limestone. 



350-500 



Massive, dark-blue. 



o 



'-6 



Rogersville shale. 



180-220 



Bright-green, with a limestone-bed. 



3 I 



Rutledge limestone. 



350-450 



Massive, dark-blue. 





Rome formation. 



750-950 



Red, green, yellow, and brown shales, some- 

 times sandy and red, white and brown 

 sandstones, and sandy shales. 





Beaver limestone. 



300 



Massive, blue. 





Apison shale. 



200 



Green. 





900 + 



Bright-red, green, and brown; sandy. 



d 



S 



03 ■ 

 O 



Discontinuity. 1 





Hesse sandstone. 



500 + 



Fine, white, massive. 



Murray shale. 



300 



Grayish-blue, sandy. 





Nebo sandstone. 



500 



Massive, white. 



H 



Nichols shale. 



550-800 



Grayish-blue, sandy. 





Cochran formation. 



600-900 



Massive white sandstone 





0-100 



Red sandstone, gray sandy shaie. 





500-700 



Coarse conglomerate; quartz, and feldspa. 

 pebbles. 





Sandsuck shale. 

 . Base not ex posed. 



1000 + 



Grayish-blue. 



Strata much folded and faulted. 

 1 See note on preceding page. 



