Tennessee · Putnam County
Occurrence

Outcrop Sample For Uranium

Putnam County, Tennessee, United States
Oil ShaleUranium
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Commodities
TertiaryOil Shale, Uranium
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeN
Orebody formTABULAR
Ore controlBedding; The Darker, More Organic-Rich Beds
Geology
Host rockBlack Shale · Chattanooga Shale, Carbonaceous, Grayish-Black, Thinly-Laminated, Fissile
Tectonic settingGeosyncline
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
Identification
Deposit ID10026195
MRDS IDK002708
RegionNA
Data scoreD
Coordinates36.08453, -85.68773
References
CONANT, L.C., AND SWANSON, V.E., 1961, CHATTANOOGA SHALE AND RELATED ROCKS OF CENTRAL TENNESSEE AND NEARBY AREAS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 357, 91 P1961 OTHER CONANT AND SWANSON, 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.