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The Cleveland Shale, also referred to as the Cleveland Member, is a shale geologic formation in the eastern United States.

Identification and name

The Cleveland Shale was identified in 1870 and named for the city of Cleveland, Ohio. John Strong Newberry, director of the Ohio State Geological Survey, first identified the formation in 1870.Шаблон:Sfn He called it the "Cleveland Shale" and designated its type locality at Doan BrookШаблон:Sfn near Cleveland.Шаблон:Sfn Details of the type locality and of stratigraphic nomenclature for this unit as used by the U.S. Geological Survey are available on-line at the National Geologic Map Database.

Description

The primary minerals in the Cleveland Shale are chlorite, illite, pyrite, and quartz.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn Underground, the Cleveland Shale is black,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn dull grayish-black,Шаблон:Sfn bluish-black, or brownish-blackШаблон:Sfn in color. In exposed outcrops, it weathers to red,Шаблон:Sfn reddish-brown,Шаблон:Sfn or medium brown.Шаблон:Sfn Highly weathered rock turns gray.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn It is fairly fissile,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn breaking into thin, irregularly shaped sheetsШаблон:Sfn or flakesШаблон:Sfn that occasionally display crystals of pickeringite.Шаблон:Sfn Relieved of stress once exposed, the Cleveland Shale is nonplasticШаблон:Sfn and can appear as if fragmented into blocks due to jointing.Шаблон:Sfn

Pyrite basal boundary

There is a sharp and clear distinction between the Cleveland Shale and underlying Chagrin Shale.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn At the very bottom of the Cleveland Shale there is a thin, discontinuous layer of pyrite.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn This pyrite layer is discontinuous because after this rock was laid down, it was eroded. The erosion increases as one moves south along the valley of the Cuyahoga River and east to the Grand River.Шаблон:Sfn Portions of the pyrite layer, known as Skinner's Run Bed,Шаблон:Sfn contain fragments of petrified wood and fossilized fish bones worn smooth by the action of water.Шаблон:Sfn Above the pyrite layer, a limestone layer is found in west-central (but not eastern) Ohio.Шаблон:Sfn

The remainder of the Cleveland Shale generally consists of a relatively hard,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn organic richШаблон:Sfn oil shale.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn It has both an upper and lower part.Шаблон:Sfn

Lower part

A clay shale,Шаблон:Sfn described as bluish or bluish-grayШаблон:Sfn and as olive-black to brownish-black,Шаблон:Sfn forms the lower part. The lower part can be anywhere from a few inches to several feet in thickness. This layer is sometimes referred to as the Olmstead shale. This layer has been dated to between 362.6 and 361.0 million years old based on conodont biozones (Bispathodus aculeatus aculeatus to Bispathodus ultimus ultimus zones). Thin beds of gray or brown siltstone, lumps of pyrite, and layers of silica-heavy limestone with cone-in-cone structures are found in the lower part. In eastern Ohio, thin gray veins ("stringers") of siltstone appear.Шаблон:Sfn In western Ohio,Шаблон:Sfn the Cleveland Shale appears to interbed with the Chagrin Shale below it, erasing the clear boundary between the two rock formations.Шаблон:Sfn

Upper part

The upper part of the Cleveland Shale is a black to brownish blackШаблон:Sfn silty shaleШаблон:Sfn with occasional thin beds of gray shale and siltstone.Шаблон:Sfn The upper part is much richer in petroleumШаблон:Sfn and kerogen.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn When broken open, fresh samples smell like crude oil.Шаблон:Sfn Where the upper part is thick,Шаблон:Sfn and particularly in northeast Ohio,Шаблон:Sfn the shale has a distinctive "rippled" appearance.Шаблон:Sfn The upper Шаблон:Convert of the Cleveland Shale contains abundant nodules of phosphate, nodules and bands (extremely thin beds) of pyrite, bands of calcisiltite, and lamination.Шаблон:Sfn Almost no concretions are found in the upper part.Шаблон:Sfn

Geographic extent

Файл:Cleveland Shale exposure at Fort Hill along Rocky River, Cleveland, OH.jpg

A thick sequence of the Cleveland Shale exposed on the north bank of the Rocky River in North Olmsted, Ohio. For scale, note the paleontologists just right of center at the base of the cliff.

The Cleveland Shale is a shale geologic formation in Ohio in the United States. The Cleveland Shale underlies much of northeast Ohio in beds of varying thickness.

In northeast Ohio, the member does not appear east of the Grand River.Шаблон:Sfn Measurements taken in northeast Ohio show the Cleveland Shale to be Шаблон:ConvertШаблон:Sfn to Шаблон:Convert thick.Шаблон:Sfn It is thickest around the Rocky River north of Berea, Ohio, and thins to the east, west, and south.Шаблон:Sfn

The Cleveland Shale is found in east-central Kentucky. In east-central Kentucky, the Cleveland Shale is more uniform in thickness, ranging from Шаблон:Convert, and increases in thickness toward the east.Шаблон:Sfn

The unit is also present in West Virginia and in southwest Virginia, where it is mapped as the Cleveland Member of the Ohio Shale.

Stratigraphic setting

The Cleveland Shale (or Cleveland Member) is a sub-unit of the Ohio Shale Formation.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The Chagrin Shale underlies the Cleveland Shale.Шаблон:Sfn The Bedford Shale generally overlies the Cleveland Shale, with a sharp distinction between the two. In west-central Ohio, more than Шаблон:Convert of Bedford Shale may lie above the Cleveland Shale. In places, red and grey shale may intertongue (interlock) with the Cleveland Shale extensively. In far eastern Ohio, the Bedford Shale thins by more than Шаблон:Convert. Where the Cussewago Shale is also present, the Bedford Shale is usually less than Шаблон:Convert and may be locally absent. In some areas, the Cleveland Shale is described as oversteppedШаблон:Sfn or unconformably overlaid gradationally by Berea Siltstone and sharply by Berea Sandstone.Шаблон:Sfn

It is the regional equivalent of the Hangenberg Black Shale and the Bakken Shale.Шаблон:Sfn

Fossils

Exceptional marine animal fossils are found in the formation. The Cleveland Shale is generally considered to be fossil-poor, but there are exceptions. The basal pyrite layer contains petrified wood and fossilized fish bones.Шаблон:Sfn The lower part is famous for its extensive and well-preserved fossil Chondrichthyans (including Cladoselache), Conodonts, Placodermi,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn and palaeoniscinoids ray-finned fishes.Шаблон:Sfn The giant predatory placoderms Dunkleosteus terrelli, Gorgonichthys clarki, Gymnotrachelus hydei, Heintzichthys gouldii, and five subspecies (including the type specimen) of Titanichthys were all discovered in the Cleveland Shale.Шаблон:Sfn The Cleveland Shale is classified as a konservatte-lagerstatten, which means it often preserves complete body fossils. Typical early shark preservation includes soft tissue outlines and impressions, fin rays, gill musculature, cartilage, and stomach contents. Placoderms in the Cleveland Shale typically do not show any good soft-tissue preservation.

Faunal list follows Carr and Jackson (2008) and Carr 2018

Placodermi

Genus	Species	Notes	Images
Brontichthys	B. clarki
Bungartius	B. perissus
Callognathus	C. regularis
Coccosteus	C. cuyahogae
Diplognathus	D. mirabilis
Dunkleosteus	D. terrelli
Glyptaspis	G. verrucosus
Gorgonichthys	G. clarki
Gymnotrachelus	G. hydei
Heintzichthys	H. gouldii
Holdenius	H. holdeni
Hussakofia	H. minor
Hlavinichthys	H. jacksoni
Mylostoma	M. eurhinus M. newberryi M. variabilis	May all be synonyms of M. variabilis
Paramylostoma	P. arcualis
Selenosteus	S. brevis
Steneosteus	S. angustopectus S. glaber
Titanichthys	T. agassizi T. attenuatus T. clarkii T. hussakofi T. rectus	May all be synonyms of T. agassizi
Trachosteus	T. clarki

Chondrichthyes

Genus	Species	Notes
Cladoselache	C. acanthopterygius C. brachypterygius C. clarki C. desmopterygius C. fyleri C. magnificus C. newberryi	Some species may be synonymous
Ctenacanthus	C. concinnus C. terrelli C. tumidus C. vetustus?	Some species may be synonymous
Diademodus	D. hydei
Monocladodus	M. sp.
Orodus	O. spp. (x3)
Phoebodus	P. politus
Stethacanthus	S. altonensis S. carinatus
Tamiobatis	T. vetustus T. cf. T. vetustus

Osteichthyans

Genus	Species	Notes
Kentuckia	K. hlavini	Additional species may be present
Proceratodus	P. wagneri	Only sarcopterygian currently recorded from the Cleveland Member
Tegeolepis	T. clarki

Age

The Cleveland Shale is approximately 362.6 to 360.1 million years old, daing to the very latest part of the Devonian period, the Fammenian, based on biostratigraphy from conodonts and plant spores. The Cleveland Shale extends all the way to the Hangenberg mass extinction that ended the Devonian but does not reach the very end of the Devonian period. Unlike the Permian-Triassic extinction and Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary does not correlate with the mass extinction event at the end of this period. The Bedford Shale and Berea Sandstone represent Devonian layers that post-date the Devonian-Carboniferous extinction but were deposited on top of the Cleveland Shale, and encompass some of the recovery fauna otherwise typical of the Carboniferous in the aftermath of the Hangenberg Event.

The upper 2.5 m of the Cleveland Shale has been chemostratigraphically correlated with the Hangenberg Event and the type stratigraphy in Germany, suggesting that the Cleveland Shale preserves the second of the two mass extinction events that together comprise the late Devonian extinction

Interpretation of depositional environments

The Cleveland Shale is likely the regional expression of the Dasberg Event, a major extinction event that occurred near the end of the Devonian period. The Cleveland Shale is interpreted as having accumulated in an anaerobic environment.Шаблон:Sfn Evidence exists to suggest that the Cleveland Shale was laid down during the Dasberg event, an Upper Famennian extinction event that devastated land-based flora and marine-based fauna. This led to a significant drop in marine oxygen (an anoxic event) and atmospheric carbon dioxide, and then a brief glaciation. The global environment recovered, only to suffer another extinction, the Hangenberg event, close to the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary.Шаблон:Sfn While the Cleveland Shale was being deposited, extensive organic matter from the land was swept into the sea then lying over Ohio.Шаблон:Sfn Although there is dispute over how deep this sea was, the Dasberg event meant that oceans could support few to no bottom-dwelling animals. This explains why the Cleveland Shale largely lacks fossils of benthic organismsШаблон:Sfn and has a high carbon content that colors the shale very dark gray to black.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

The contact between the Chagrin Shale and Cleveland Shale has been described as interbedding. This feature is interpreted as having been caused when two different depositional environments (in this case, the oxygenated sea which laid down the Chagrin Shale and the anaerobic sea rich in organic matter which laid down the Cleveland Shale) moved repeatedly back and forth over the same area.Шаблон:Sfn Geologist Horace R. Collins called the boundary area intercalated,Шаблон:Sfn but it is unclear what meaning he intended.Шаблон:Efn

Different hypotheses have been suggested as the cause of the regional, irregular contact between the Cleveland Shale and Bedford Formation. Charles E.B. Conybeare has noted that the Cleveland Shale is siltier in the east and more calcareous in the west. He hypothesized that this indicates that silt flowed into the sea from east to west. Current eroded the Cleveland Shale and then laid down new sediment in the gullies which became the Bedford Formation.Шаблон:Sfn Jack C. Pashin and Frank R. Ettensohn proposed a variation on this hypothesis. They note that the region containing the Cleveland Shale was undergoing uplift when the Bedford Formation was being deposited. This likely led to exposure and erosion of the Cleveland Shale, with sediment which became the Bedford Formation filling in these gullies. They also observe that there is evidence of diapirism (the intrusion of deformable Cleveland Shale upward into the more brittle Bedford Formation), as well as intertonguing.Шаблон:Sfn Baird et al. note that the Cleveland Shale also tilts downward to the south. They suggest that this caused overstepping, rather than intertonguing.Шаблон:Sfn

Economic geology

The high organic content of the Cleveland Shale makes it eminently suitable for the formation of fossil fuels. One 1981 study found that the Cleveland Shale can yield an average of Шаблон:Convert of petroleum per Шаблон:Convert of rock.Шаблон:Sfn The Cleveland Shale also contains cannel coal and "true" coal, although neither in great quantity.Шаблон:Sfn

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ohio
• Marcellus Formation
• Escuminac Formation
• Floresta Formation
• Hunsrück Slate
• Rhynie Chert
• Gogo Formation
• Late Devonian extinction event

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