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Glenwood Shale
The
Glenwood
Shale
is a thin
Ordivician
shale
formation
in the
sedimentary
sequence
characteristic
of the
upper
Midwestern United States
.
It
lies
under the
Platteville Limestone
and above the
Saint Peter Sandstone
. Together, these three
units
represent
a sequence of
sea level rise
during
Ordovician
time. Because it is often very thin, it is often
ignored
in the general
stratigraphy
.