Birds Member

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Lithostratigraphy: Hunton Limestone Megagroup >>Wilhelmi Formation >>Birds Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Silurian System >>Alexandrian Series
Allostratigraphy: Tippecanoe 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)

H. B. Willman and Elwood Atherton

Name

Original description

The Birds Member of the Wilhelmi Formation (Willman, 1973, p. 13).

Derivation

Named for the railroad siding at Birds, 2 miles northwest of the type section.

Other names

History/background

Type section

Type location

The type section of the Birds Member is part of the Wilhelmi Formation type section, located in a railroad cut about 5 miles southwest of Wilhelmi Airport (SE SW SE 35, 35N-9E).

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Stratigraphic relationships

The Birds Member overlies the Schweizer Member of the Wilhelmi Formation.

Extent and thickness

Lithology

The uppermost part of the member and its contact with the overlying Elwood Formation are exposed in a ravine half a mile northeast (NW NW SE 36, 35N-9E). The Birds Member consists of 10-20 feet of slightly to moderately argillaceous, slightly cherty, thin-bedded, medium-gray dolomite. It is distinguished by several thin beds of relatively pure, finely laminated, fossiliferous dolomite.

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Remarks

References

WILLMAN, H. B., 1973, Rock stratigraphy of the Silurian System in northeastern and northwestern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 479, 55 p.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code Geo Unit Designation
6990
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