Division of black Ohio Shale in eastern Kentucky. [Three Lick Bed]
- Exxon Co., New Orleans
In the upper part of the Devonian Ohio Shale and its equivalents in eastern Kentucky and nearby Ohio, West Virginia, and Tennessee, a useful marker bed, herein named the Three Lick Bed, has been identified. The Three Lick Bed consists of three greenish-gray shale beds separated by fissile, brownish-black shale. The distinctive greenish-gray shale beds are easily recognized in outcrop in seven sections on the east flank of the Cincinnati arch from southern Ohio into Tennessee, have a distinctive signature on wire-line logs, and can be identified in well cuttings in much of eastern Kentucky and adjacent parts of Ohio and West Virginia. The Three Lick Bed correlates with the middle unit of the Gassaway Member of the Chattanooga Shale in Tennessee, with the lower part of the Camp Run Member of the New Albany Shale in Indiana, and with part of the Chagrin Shale in eastern Ohio.
- OSTI ID:
- 6827429
- Journal Information:
- Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Bull.; (United States), Journal Name: Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Bull.; (United States) Vol. 62:9; ISSN AAPGB
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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BITUMINOUS MATERIALS
BLACK SHALES
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CENTRAL REGION
CHATTANOOGA FORMATION
DEVONIAN PERIOD
ENERGY SOURCES
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
GEOLOGIC AGES
GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS
GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES
GREAT LAKES REGION
KENTUCKY
NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS
NORTH AMERICA
OHIO
OIL SHALES
PALEOZOIC ERA
RESOURCES
SOUTHEAST REGION
TENNESSEE
USA
WEST VIRGINIA