The Casselman Formation mapped sedimentary bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia, of Pennsylvanian age. It is the uppermost of two formations in the Conemaugh Group, the lower being the Glenshaw Formation. The boundary between these two units is the top of the marine Ames Limestone.[2] The Conemaugh Group overlies the Upper Freeport coal bed of the Allegheny Formation and underlies the Pittsburgh coal seam of the Monongahela Group.
| Casselman Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Pennsylvanian | |
 Outcrop of Casselman Formation at Mile Marker 84.2, Pennsylvania Turnpike | |
| Type | sedimentary |
| Unit of | Conemaugh Group |
| Underlies | Monongahela Group |
| Overlies | Glenshaw Formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | shale, siltstone, sandstone, red beds, coal |
| Other | limestone |
| Location | |
| Region | Appalachian Plateau |
| Country | United States |
| Extent | Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Casselman River |
| Named by | N. K. Flint, 1965[1] |
Overview
editThe Conemaugh Group consists of cyclic sequences of shale, siltstone, sandstone, red beds, thin impure limestone, and thin nonpersistent coal. Red beds are associated with landslides.[3]
The thickness of the Conemaugh Group averages about 400 feet in Ohio, and it ranges from 450 feet on the Ohio River in West Virginia to 520 feet in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and then to 890 feet in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.[4]
Fedexia remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[5]
Footnotes
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- ^ Flint, N.K., 1965, Geology and mineral resources of southern Somerset County, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Geological Survey County Report, 4th series, no. 56A, 267 p.
- ^ Assessment of Appalachian Basin Oil and Gas Resources: Carboniferous Coal-bed Gas Total Petroleum System http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1272/2004-1272.pdf
- ^ Casselman Formation https://mrdata.usgs.gov/geology/state/sgmc-unit.php?unit=PAPAcc;6
- ^ Assessment of Appalachian Basin Oil and Gas Resources: Carboniferous Coal-bed Gas Total Petroleum System http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1272/2004-1272.pdf Citing Arkle and others, 1979; Collins; 1979; Edmunds and others, 1999
- ^ [1]
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