| New Providence Shale | |
| Type: | Formation |
| Age: | Mississippian |
| Period: | Mississippian |
| Region: | Indiana |
| Country: | United States |
| Unitof: | Borden Group |
| Underlies: | Spickert Knob Formation |
| Overlies: | Coldwater Shale and Rockford Limestone |
The New Providence Shale is a basal clay-shale geologic formation in Indiana named by Charles Butts and William W. Borden in the 1874 after New Providence, Indiana (now Borden).