Kiser Creek Member
Lithostratigraphy: Embayment Megagroup >>Baylis Formation >>Kiser Creek Member
Chronostratigraphy: Mesozoic Erathem >>Cretaceous System >>Gulfian Series
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)
H. B. Willman and John C. Frye
Name
Original description
The Kiser Creek Member, the upper member of the Baylis Formation (Frye et al., 1964, p. 4, 10).
Derivation
Named for the East Branch of Kiser Creek, a tributary of which exposes the type section.
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History/background
Type section
Type location
The type section for the Kiser Creek Member is the same as that of the Baylis Formation, an exposure and small pit along a branch of Kiser Creek (NW SW SE 31, 4S-4W).
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Lithology
The member constitutes the greater part of the formation and is dominantly sand and clayey sand, as described for the formation. The sands and clays of the Kiser Creek Member differ from glacial sands in their uniformity, lack of carbonates, distinctive clay mineral assemblages, and the absence of the variety of heavy minerals that characterizes the glacial deposits.
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References
FRYE, J. C., H. B. WILLMAN, and H. D. GLASS, 1964, Cretaceous deposits and the Illinoian glacial boundary in western Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 364, 28 p.
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