Big Creek Shale Member

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Lithostratigraphy: Kewanee Group >>Carbondale Formation >>Big Creek Shale 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

Name

Original description

The Big Creek Shale Member of the Carbondale Formation (Savage, 1927, p. 309, 313, 315).

Derivation

Named for Big Creek in Fulton County.

Other names

History/background

Type section

Type location

The type section occurs along Big Creek (7N-4E) (Wanless, 1957, p. 108).

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Stratigraphic relationships

Extent and thickness

The Big Creek Shale Member is 10-30 feet thick. A shale is present at this position throughout much of the state, but the name has been used only in western Illinois.

Lithology

The shale is gray, soft, and sandy, and grades into the underlying Vermilionville Sandstone.

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Remarks

References

SAVAGE, T. E., 1927, Significant breaks and overlaps in the Pennsylvanian rocks of Illinois: American Journal of Science, v. 14, p. 307-316.
WANLESS, H. R., 1957, Geology and mineral resources of the Beardstown, Glasford, Havana, and Vermont Quadrangles: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 82, 233 p.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code Geo Unit Designation
2680
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