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Lithostratigraphy: Kewanee Group >>Carbondale Formation >>Cardiff 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 Cardiff Coal Member of the Carbondale Formation (Cady, 1915). The name was not in general use until re-introduced by Peppers (1970).

Derivation

Named for Cardiff, Livingston County.

Other names

History/background

Type section

Type location

The type locality is in mines at Cardiff (22, 23, 30N-8E).

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Stratigraphic relationships

It generally is not more than 10 feet above the Colchester (No. 2) Coal. At a few localities the Cardiff directly overlies the Colchester Coal.

Extent and thickness

The Cardiff Coal is known only in northeastern Livingston, southeastern Grundy, and western Kankakee Counties, where it occurs in channels trending northeast-southwest eroded in gray shale. The Cardiff Coal is highly lenticular and was reported in one mine to be 12 feet thick.

Lithology

It commonly is in more than one major bench, the benches separated by gray shale. Peppers (1970) described the flora and concluded that the Cardiff Coal is a little older than the Lowell Coal.

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Economic importance

Remarks

References

CADY, G. H., 1915, Coal resources of District I (Longwall): Illinois State Geological Survey Mining Investigations Bulletin 10, 149 p.
PEPPERS, R. A., 1970, Correlation and palynology of coals in the Carbondale and Spoon Formations (Pennsylvanian) of the northeastern part of the Illinois Basin: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 93, 173 p.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code Geo Unit Designation
3010
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