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Outcrop Sample For Uranium

Occurrence in Macon county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Uranium, Oil Shale
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026235
MRDS ID K002764
Record type Site
Current site name Outcrop Sample For Uranium
Related records 10300284

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -85.93385, 36.57869 (WGS84)
Relative position BETWEEN DRY BRANCH AND LONG FORK CREEKS, ON THE NORTHEAST SIDE OF A COUNTY ROAD, 0.1 ROAD MILE SOUTHEAST OF ITS JUNCTION WITH THE GALEN-PUMPKINTOWN ROAD.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Macon(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Galen(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tompkinsville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Corbin(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Barren(hydrologic unit)

Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Green(hydrologic subregion)

Ohio(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Macon

Comments on the location information

  • THIS IS STOCKDALE AND KLEPSER'S (1959) SECTION NO. 252. LOCATION IS APPROXIMATE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary
Oil Shale Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • THE DOWELLTOWN MEMBER IS SUBDIVIDED INTO UNITS A (LOWER) AND B (UPPER). THE OVERLYING GASSAWAY MEMBER IS SUBDIVIDED INTO UNIT C (LOWER), UNIT D (MIDDLE), AND UNIT E (UPPER). THE GASSAWAY MEMBER CONTAINS THE MOST URANIUM IN THE FORMATION, AND THE UPPER UNIT IS THE RICHEST. THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE IS CONSIDERED AS A LOW-GRADE OIL SHALE, BUT IT WAS NOT TESTED FOR ITS OIL CONTENT AT THIS LOCALITY.

Analytical data

Result STOCKDALE AND KLEPSER (1959) GIVE THE FOLLOWING VALUES (BASED ON FLUORIMETRIC ANALYSIS): DOWELLTOWN MEMBER, 0.0034% URANIUM
Result AND THE GASSAWAY MEMBER, 0.0051% URANIUM.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale > Black Shale
    Rock unit name Chattanooga Shale, Carbonaceous, Grayish-Black, Thinly-Laminated, Fissile
    Rock description Chattanooga Shale, Carbonaceous, Grayish-Black, Thinly-Laminated, Fissile
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -85.93385, 36.57869
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 5.07M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding; The Darker, More Organic-Rich Beds

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the workings information

  • THE GASSAWAY MEMBER IS 15.30 FEET THICK AT THIS LOCALITY.

Comments on development

  • THIS EXPOSURE WAS SAMPLED AS PART OF AN INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED UNDER CONTRACT NO. AT-(40-1)-1337 BETWEEN THE U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION AND THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE CONSISTS OF THE HARDIN SANDSTONE MEMBER AT THE BASE, THE DOWELLTOWN MEMBER, AND THE UPPER GASSAWAY MEMBER, WHICH IS THE MOST WIDELY DISTRIBUTED OF THE THREE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1975 Hale, Robin C. U.S. Geological Survey

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