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The Carlile Shale is a Turonian age Upper/Late Cretaceous series shale geologic formation in the central-western United States, including in the Great Plains region of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
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The extracted context around Carlile Shale shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Carlile Shale → Benton Group, Black Hills, Carlile Spring, Colorado, Colorado Group, Dane, Grove Karl Gilbert, Kansas, Mancos Shale, New Mexico, Pueblo, Rubey, The Carlile Shale, William Walden Rubey Another extracted example is Carlile Shale → Graneros Shale, Greenhorn, Greenhorn Formation, Near, Niobrara Formation, Western Interior Seaway. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 34 structured relationships around Carlile Shale. Examples in this analysis include Carlile Shale → Country → United States and Carlile Shale → Named by → Gilbert. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlile Shale | Country | United States | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carlile Shale | Named by | Gilbert | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carlile Shale | Named for | Carlile Spring and Carlile Station, 21 mi west of Pueblo, Colorado | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carlile Shale | Other | Limestone Sandstone Siltstone Septarians Bentonite | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carlile Shale | Overlies | Greenhorn Limestone | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carlile Shale | Primary | Shale, chalky to carbonaceous | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carlile Shale | Region | Mid-continental | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carlile Shale | Sub-units | Juana Lopez (CO, NM) Codell Sandstone Blue Hill Shale Fairport Chalk | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carlile Shale | Thickness | 170–230 feet (52–70 m) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carlile Shale | Type | Geological formation | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carlile Shale | Underlies | Niobrara Formation | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carlile Shale | Unit of | Colorado Group (lower); or Benton Formation Mancos Group (NM) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carlile Shale | Year defined | 1896 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carlile Shale | is a | Turonian age Upper/Late Cretaceous series shale geologic formation in the central-western United States | 0.90 | text |
The concept neighborhoods around Carlile Shale bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Colorado, Formation and Limestone. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Carlile Shale, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Carlile Shale with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Carlile Shale to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Regions & Measurement, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Carlile Shale · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout
