Sellers Limestone Bed
Lithostratigraphy: McCormick Group >>Caseyville Formation >>Sellers Limestone Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Pennsylvanian Subsystem >>Morrowan 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
Name
Original description
The Sellers Limestone Member of the Caseyville Formation (Wanless, 1939, p. 36, 101).
Derivation
Named for Sellers Landing, Hardin County.
Other names
History/background
Type section
Type location
The type section is on the west bank of the Ohio River, at Sellers Landing (21, 11S-10E) (Wanless, 1956, p. 9).
Type author(s)
Type status
Reference section
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Stratigraphic relationships
Extent and thickness
The Sellers Limestone is known only at the type locality, where about 10 feet is exposed.
Lithology
Part of the limestone is sandy and coarse grained and contains a varied marine fauna, but most of the Sellers is composed of beds of very fine-grained, argillaceous limestone interbedded with gray shale.
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Well log characteristics
Fossils
No fusulinids, ostracodes, or conodonts have been found in the Sellers.
Age and correlation
It is equivalent to part of the Drury Shale, but no limestone correlatives are known.
Environments of deposition
It is a major marine deposit in a complex fluvial-deltaic sequence.
Economic importance
Remarks
References
WANLESS, H. R., 1939, Pennsylvanian correlations in the Eastern Interior and Appalachian coal fields: Geological Society of America Special Paper 17, 130 p.
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