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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)

Elwood Atherton, Charles Collinson, and Jerry A. Lineback

Name

Original description

The Chalfin Member of the Salem Limestone (Baxter, 1960a, p. 24-27).

Derivation

Named for the village of Chalfin Bridge, Monroe County.

Other names

History/background

Type section

Type location

The type section of the Chalfin Member is in the Mississippi River bluffs 1 mile southwest of the village of Chalfin Bridge (NE SW 7, 4S-10W), where the member is 39.5 feet thick.

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Stratigraphic relationships

Extent and thickness

The Chalfin is 26-57 feet thick in the outcrop area.

Lithology

The Chalfin consists of varying thicknesses of fine-grained limestone; fine- to medium-grained, fossiliferous, locally oolitic limestone; and semilithographic limestone, some of it brecciated. The lower 10 feet is predominantly a calcarenite composed of bryozoan detritus, crinoid columnals, microcrystalline pellets, and a few oolites.

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Well log characteristics

Fossils

''Eoendothyranopsis'' group ''pressus-rarus, Koninckopora sahariensis, K. inflata, Septabrunsiina'', and profuse ''Calcisphaera'' characterize the Chalfin.

Age and correlation

Environments of deposition

Economic importance

Remarks

Reference(s)

place a <pre><br></pre>at the end of a line to get a line return BAXTER, J. W., 1960a, Salem Limestone in southwestern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 284, 32

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