Logan Formation
Logan Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: Lower Carboniferous (early Osagean) PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
Logan Formation exposed in Wooster, Ohio. | |
Type | Sedimentary |
Unit of | Waverly Group |
Sub-units | Berne, Byer, Allenville, Vinton |
Underlies | Maxville Limestone, Pottsville Group, and Rushville Shale |
Overlies | Cuyahoga Formation; Black Hand Sandstone |
Thickness | 0 to 40 m |
Lithology | |
Primary | sandstone, siltstone, conglomerate |
Other | shale |
Location | |
Region | Appalachian Basin |
Country | United States |
Extent | Ohio, West Virginia |
Type section | |
Named for | Logan, Ohio |
Named by | Andrews, 1870 |
The Logan Formation is the name given to a Lower Carboniferous (early Osagean) siltstone, sandstone and conglomeratic unit exposed in east-central Ohio and parts of western West Virginia, USA.
Stratigraphy and paleoenvironment
The Logan Formation was named by Andrews (1870) and originally described as a "buff-colored, fine-grained sandstone" above the Waverly Formation and below the Maxville Limestone. Bork and Malcuit (1979) concluded that the Logan Formation was deposited on a shallow marine shelf in a generally transgressing sea. The age of the Logan Formation has been established as early Osagean (Tn3) by the occurrences of brachiopods, ammonoids, conodonts and miospores (Clayton et al., 1998; Matchen and Kammer, 2006).
References
- Andrews, E.B. (1870). "Report of progress in the second district, Part II, IN Report of progress in 1869". Ohio Division of Geological Survey Report of Progress. 2nd Series: 1091–1094.
- Bork, K.B.; Malcuit, R.J. (1979). "Paleoenvironments of the Cuyahoga and Logan Formations (Mississippian) of central Ohio". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 90: 89–113. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1979)90<1091:potcal>2.0.co;2.
- Clayton, G.; Manger, W.L.; Owens, B. (1998). "Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) miospores from the Cuyahoga and Logan Formations of northeastern Ohio, USA". Journal of Micropalaeontology. 17: 183–191. doi:10.1144/jm.17.2.183.
- Matchen, D.L.; Kammer, T.W. (2006). "Incised valley fill interpretation for Mississippian Black Hand Sandstone, Appalachian Basin, USA: Implications for glacial eustacy at Kinderhookian-Osagean (Tn2-Tn3) boundary". Sedimentary Geology. 191: 89–113. Bibcode:2006SedG..191...89M. doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.02.002.
- Conglomerate in the Logan Formation exposed in Wooster, Ohio, USA.
- Brachiopod internal and external molds in the Logan Formation in Wooster, Ohio.
- The bivalve Aviculopecten subcardiformis from the Logan Formation in Wooster, Ohio (external mold).
- Bivalves (Aviculopecten) and brachiopods (Syringothyris) in the Logan Formation in Wooster, Ohio.
- Cross-bedding and scour in the Logan Formation of Jackson County, Ohio.
- Schizodus medinaensis; a bivalve from the Logan Formation in Wooster, Ohio (internal mold).
- Syringothyris sp.; a spiriferinid brachiopod from the Logan Formation in Wooster, Ohio (internal mold).
- Syringothyris external mold with borings; Logan Formation; Wooster, Ohio.
- Syringothyris texta (Hall 1857), dorsal view, internal mold. Lower Carboniferous of Wooster, Ohio.
- Helminthopsis ichnosp.; a trace fossil from the Logan Formation in Wooster, Ohio.
- Crinoid calyx from the Logan Formation in Wooster, Ohio, with a conical platyceratid gastropod (Palaeocapulus acutirostre) attached.
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