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• TITLE: Shallow-Water Origin of a Devonian Black Shale, Cleveland Shale Member (Ohio Shale), Northeastern Ohio, USA

  AUTHORS: Saeed Alshahrani, James E. Evans

  KEYWORDS: Black Shales, Tempestites, Hyperpycnites, Devonian, Appalachian Basin, Catskill Delta

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Geology, Vol.4 No.12, December 26, 2014

  ABSTRACT: Black shales are usually interpreted to require anoxic bottom waters and deeper water sedimentation. There has long been a debate about whether the Devonian Cleveland Shale Member of the Ohio Shale (CSM) was deposited in shallow- or deep-water depositional environments. This study looked at the CSM at 3 stratigraphic sections and 5 well cores in northeastern Ohio. The CSM mostly consists of sapropelite (interbedded carbonaceous black mudstones and gray calcareous claystones). The black and gray “shales” are rhythmically bedded at micro- (≥35 km, while hyperpycnites are too thin (≤50 m depth).