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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 Brandon Bridge Member of the Joliet Formation (Willman, 1973, p. 20).

Derivation

Named for Brandon Bridge over the Des Plaines River on the southwest side of Joliet, Will County.

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History/background

Type section

Type location

The type section of the Brandon Bridge Member is in the Lincoln Stone Company quarry southwest of the bridge (S½ SE 20 and N½ NE 29, 35N-10E).

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Stratigraphic relationships

The Brandon Bridge Member of the Joliet Formation (Willman, 1973, p. 20) is the basal member.

Extent and thickness

The Brandon Bridge Member is 29 feet thick at the type locality, but thins southward and is only 10.5 feet thick where exposed along the Kankakee River east of the Warner Bridge in Kankakee County (NW SE SW 31, 12N-11E).

Lithology

In the Joliet area the Brandon Bridge Member is differentiated into two parts by a bed of green to black shale as much as a foot thick, but generally only an inch or two thick. The lower part is the more shaly and contains beds of red crinoidal dolomite interbedded with very argillaceous gray and red dolomite. The upper part is less shaly and most of ii is gray, mottled with red and green. The top is placed at the highest strong shaly parting.

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Fossils

The abundance of arenaceous Foraminifera in the member has been noted, and ''Bumastus'' (fig. S-12) is locally present, particularly in the middle shale. <center> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- |<gallery caption="" widths=250px heights=250px perrow=4> Figure_S-12.jpg|{{file:Figure_S-12.jpg}} </gallery> |} </center>

Age and correlation

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Reference(s)

place a <pre><br></pre>at the end of a line to get a line return WILLMAN, H. B., 1973, Rock stratigraphy of the Silurian System in northeastern and northwestern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 479, 55 p.

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