Davis Coal Member
Lithostratigraphy: Kewanee Group >>Spoon Formation >>Davis Coal Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Pennsylvanian Subsystem >>Desmoinesian Series
Allostratigraphy: Absaroka Sequence
Primary source
Willman, H. B., Elwood Atherton, T. C. Buschbach, Charles Collinson, John C. Frye, M. E. Hopkins, Jerry A. Lineback, and Jack A. Simon, 1975, Handbook of Illinois Stratigraphy: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 95, 261 p.
Contributing author(s)
M. E. Hopkins and J. A. Simon
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Original description
The Davis Coal Member of the Spoon Formation (Owen, 1856, p. 41).
Derivation
Named for the Davis Mine, located half a mile east of Dekoven Station, Union County, Kentucky (Lee, 1916, p. 19, 30).
Other names
It has also been called the No. 6 coal in western Kentucky.
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Stratigraphic relationships
In Illinois the Davis Coal has about the same distribution as the De Koven Coal, which it underlies by as much as 30-40 feet.
Extent and thickness
The Davis averages about 4 feet thick across much of southern Illinois, where it has been mined by surface methods (Butts, 1925). To the north and west the coal, as a rule, is thinner.
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Age and correlation
It is correlated with the Wiley Coal of western Illinois.
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References
BUTTS, CHARLES, 1925, Geology and mineral resources of the Equality-Shawneetown area: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 47, 76 p.
LEE, WALLACE, 1916, Geology of the Shawneetown quadrangle in Kentucky: Kentucky Geological Survey Bulletin, Series 4, v. 4, part 2, 73 p.
OWEN, D. D., 1856, Report of the geological survey in Kentucky made during the years 1854 and 1855: Kentucky Geological Survey Bulletin, v. I, Series 1, 416 p.
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