New Providence Shale

New Providence Shale
Stratigraphic range: Mississippian
TypeFormation
Unit ofBorden Group
UnderliesSpickert Knob Formation
OverliesColdwater Shale and Rockford Limestone
Location
RegionIndiana
CountryUnited 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]

  1. ^ Stockdale 1986, p. 7.