| Deposit ID | 10026210 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | K002729 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Outcrop Sample For Uranium |
| Related records | 10251106 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -85.56745, 36.48148 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Relative position | NORTHWEST SIDE OF TENN. RTE. 53, 0.35 MILE SOUTHWEST OF WHERE IT CROSSES OVER DRY FORK CREEK. |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Clay(county)
Tennessee(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Burristown(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Cookeville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Corbin(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Upper Cumberland-Cordell Hull Reservoir(hydrologic unit)
Upper Cumberland(hydrologic accounting unit)
Cumberland(hydrologic subregion)
Ohio(hydrologic region)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Tennessee | Clay |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Uranium | Tertiary |
| Oil Shale | Tertiary |
| Result | FLUORIMETRIC ANALYSIS SHOW THAT THE URANIUM CONTENT OF THE DOWELLTOWN MEMBER IS 0.0030% AND THE GASSAWAY MEMBER IS 0.0067%, ACCORDING TO STOCKDALE AND KLEPSER (1959). THEIR UNPUBLISHED GRAPHIC LOG SHOWS THE FOLLOWING VALUES: DOWELLTOWN, 0.0021% |
|---|---|
| Result | COMPOSITE OF UNITS C AND D, 0.0045% |
| Result | UNIT E, 5 SAMPLES, 0.0038 TO 0.0076%. |
| 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 | ||
| |||
| (1) | Fort Payne Formation and Chattanooga Shale |
|---|
| General form | TABULAR |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 5.91M |
| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Significant | No |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | K002729 |
1961 OTHER CONANT AND SWANSON, USGS PROF. PAPER 357.
STOCKDALE, P.B., AND KLEPSER, H.J., 1959, THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE OF TENNESSEE AS A SOURCE OF URANIUM: U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMM. TECH. INF. SERVICE, ORO-205, P. 223. DETAILED GRAPHIC SECTIONS AND LOGS OF THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE AT LOCALITIES DESCRIBED IN THE TEXT ARE ON OPEN-FILE AT THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, KNOXVILLE; TENNESSEE DIVISION OF GEOLOGY, KNOXVILLE AND NASHVILLE; AND THE MINERAL RESOURCES SECTION, TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, KNOXVILLE. HOWEVER, A NUMBER OF THE ANALYSIS GIVEN IN THE OPEN-FILE MATERIAL WERE NOT INCLUDED IN STOCKDALE AND KLEPSER'S TEXT.
| 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 |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-DEC-1974 | Hale, Robin C. | U.S. Geological Survey |
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