New Providence Shale

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New Providence Shale
Stratigraphic range: Mississippian
Type	Formation
Unit of	Borden Group
Underlies	Spickert Knob Formation
Overlies	Coldwater Shale and Rockford Limestone
Location
Region	Indiana
Country	United States

The New Providence Shale is a basal clay-shale geologic formation in Indiana named by Charles Butts and William W. Borden in the 1874 after New Providence, Indiana (now Borden).^[1]

References

^ Stockdale 1986, p. 7.

Sources

Stockdale, Paris B. (1986). Lower Mississippian Rocks of the East-Central Interior. Geological Society of America Special Paper. Geological Society of America. ISBN 978-0-8137-2022-7. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
Generalized Stratigraphic Column of Indiana Bedrock^{[dead link]}