Cheltenham Clay Member
Lithostratigraphy: Kewanee Group >>Spoon Formation >>Cheltenham Clay 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 Cheltenham Clay Member of the Spoon Formation (Wheeler, 1896, p. 247; White, 1909, p. 293).
Derivation
Named for the Cheltenham district in the southern part of St. Louis, Missouri.
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History/background
In Illinois, the name is applied locally to a complex claystone member that results from the thinning out of many units and the merging of several underclay units.
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Stratigraphic relationships
The stratigraphic interval occupied by this member varies. The youngest deposits are at or immediately below the underclay of the Colchester (No. 2) Coal and the oldest are near the base of the underclay below the Brush (New Burnside) Coal.
Extent and thickness
The Cheltenham is developed primarily in northern, western, and southwestern Illinois, areas where the Pennsylvanian section below the Colchester Coal is relatively thin.
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Age and correlation
The Cheltenham Clay Member in Illinois is considered to be part of the Desmoinesian Series, but in Missouri similar deposits (Cheltenham Formation) are considered part of the Atokan Series (Howe and Koenig, 1961).
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References
HOWE, W. B., and J . W. KOENIG, 1961, Stratigraphic succession in Missouri: Missouri Geological Survey, v. 40, 185 p.
WHEELER, H. A., 1896, Clay deposits: Missouri Geological Survey, v. 11, 1st Series, 622 p.
WHITE, DAVID, 1909, Paleobotanical work in Illinois in 1908: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 14, p. 293-295.
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