Trenton Group

The Trenton Group is a geologic unit in Canada and Michigan, Ohio, New York State and Indiana, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia in the United States. It dates back to the Ordovician period.^[2][3]

Trenton Formation
Stratigraphic range: Middle-Upper Ordovician
Trenton Formation in Canada
Type	Formation
Sub-units	Dolgeville Limestone Flat Creek Member Kings Falls Limestone Glens Falls Limestone Sugar River Limestone Denley Limestone Steuben Limestone
Underlies	Collingwood Shale, Point Pleasant Formation & Scales Shale
Overlies	Black River & Plattin Formation
Lithology
Primary	Limestone
Other	Chert
Location
Region	Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Virginia[1]
Country	United States  Canada
Extent	Appalachia, Midwestern and Southeastern United States

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Michigan
• Trenton Gas Field
• Indiana gas boom
• Petroleum industry in Ohio

References

1. Paleozoic Sedimentary Successions of the Virginia Valley & Ridge and Plateau
2. "Trenton Limestone". Indiana Geological and Water Survey. Indiana University. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
3. Orton, Edward (1889). "THE TRENTON LIMESTONE AS A SOURCE OF PETROLEUM AND INFLAMMABLE GAS IN OHIO AND INDIANA, in Eighth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1886-1887: Part 2". USGS. pp. 547–556. Retrieved 6 July 2020.

• Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 22 June 2014.