Brush Coal Member

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Lithostratigraphy: Kewanee Group >>Spoon Formation >>Brush Coal 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 Brush Coal Member of the Spoon Formation (Kosanke et al., 1960, p. 33).

Derivation

Named for Brush Creek, Knox County, where it is the middle of three thin coals.

Other names

It previously was called the Middle De Long Coal (Wanless, 1931a, p. 188-192).

History/background

Type section

Type location

The type locality is along the creek (6, 8, 9N-2E) (Wanless, 1956, p. 9; 1957, p. 74-75).

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Type status

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Stratigraphic relationships

Extent and thickness

Lithology

The Brush Coal, widely recognized in western Illinois, consists primarily of carbonaceous shale or bony coal only a few inches thick, which is generally overlain by the underclay of the De Long Coal and underlain by a very persistent, purplish gray underclay that is commonly 3-5 feet thick.

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Well log characteristics

Fossils

Age and correlation

The Brush Coal is correlated with the New Burnside Coal of southern Illinois.

Environments of deposition

Economic importance

Remarks

References

KOSANKE, R. M., J. A. SIMON, H. R. WANLESS, and H. B. WILLMAN, 1960, Classification of the Pennsylvanian strata of Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 214, 84 p.
WANLESS, H. R., 1931a, Pennsylvanian cycles in western Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 60, p.
WANLESS, H. R., 1956, Classification of the Pennsylvanian rocks of Illinois as of 1956: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 217, 14 p.
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
3410
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