GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE
GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE
GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE
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42 <strong>GROUND</strong> <strong>WATER</strong> <strong>IN</strong> <strong>NORTH</strong>-<strong>CENTRAL</strong> <strong>TENNESSEE</strong><br />
similar in lithology to the rock of the type section and is characterized<br />
by species of Heliophyttum, Blothrophyttum, Oystiphyttum, Cyathophyl-<br />
lum, Cladopora, and Bryozoa. Foerste 77 correlated the upper part of<br />
the formation with the Sellersburg limestone of Indiana, which is of<br />
late Middle Devonian (Hamilton) age, and implied that the lower<br />
part was of early Middle Devonian ("Comiferous" Onondaga) age.<br />
Dunbar 78 has correlated the entire formation with the Jeffersonville<br />
limestone of Indiana, which is early Middle Devonian (Onondaga).<br />
The Pegram limestone is undoubtedly separated from the under<br />
lying strata by a disconformity at the two localities that have been<br />
described.<br />
Recently Pohl 79 has shown that limestone of upper Pegram age is<br />
accompanied locally by an underlying sandstone member, of probable<br />
lower Pegram age, whose maximum known thickness is 35 feet. He<br />
describes the type section and occurrence of this member as follows:<br />
Section in district 4, Trousdale County, Term., in road cut on hill 1% to 1% miles<br />
southwest of Valentine's store<br />
Mississippian:<br />
Chattanooga shale Feet<br />
Dead-black, thinly fissile shale with thin bed of conodont-bearing<br />
sandstone at base__.___ To top of hill.<br />
Gray blocky shale carrying abundant Lingulas and<br />
a few Mississippian conodonts________________ 7<br />
Possible break.<br />
Devonian (?): Black shale like first with lenses of fine, black<br />
sandstone near base, grading without apparent break<br />
into limestone below--______-__________------- ___ 8<br />
Devonian:<br />
Pegram limestone (Sellersburg formation) Dark-<br />
brown semicrystalline limestone carrying numerous<br />
large heliophylloid corals, becoming purer gray below<br />
and very conglomeratic (semiedgewise) near base. _ About 4<br />
Pegram limestone (Jeffersonville formation) White,<br />
brown, or pink coarse sugary sandstone, very f ossilif er-<br />
ous at top; barren and exhibiting extremely unsettled<br />
conditions of deposition in lower 4 feet. Fauna: Lep-<br />
taena rhomboidalis, Stropheodonta aff. S. hemispherica,<br />
Stropheodonta demissa, Leptostrophia aff. L. perplana,<br />
Schuchertella sp., Spirifer cf. S. varicosus, Cystodictya<br />
gilberti, Fenestella sp., Rhipidomella aff. R. vanuxemi,<br />
Hadrophyllum orbignyi, Chonetes aff. C. mucronatus,<br />
Centronella? glansflagae cf. Pholidostrophia iowensis,<br />
Polypora sp., Loculipora sp., Cystodictya sp., Anibo-<br />
coelia sp., crinoid stems__________________________ 9<br />
Silurian: Niagaran. Formation undetermined.<br />
« Foerste, A. F., op. cit. (1901), pp. 425-426.<br />
w Dunbar, C. 0., op. cit., p. 91.<br />
» Pohl, E. R., personal communication, February 6,1929.