https://ilstratwiki.web.illinois.edu/index.php?title=Clermont_Shale_Member&feed=atom&action=historyClermont Shale Member - Revision history2024-03-29T12:56:35ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.38.4https://ilstratwiki.web.illinois.edu/index.php?title=Clermont_Shale_Member&diff=15407&oldid=prevJennifer.Obrad at 16:25, 12 January 20172017-01-12T16:25:15Z<p></p>
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==Primary source==<br />
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.<br />
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==Contributing author&#40;s&#41;==<br />
H. B. Willman and T. C. Buschbach<br />
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==Name==<br />
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===Original description===<br />
The Clermont Shale Member of the Scales Shale (Calvin, 1906, p. 60, 98).<br />
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===Derivation===<br />
Named for Clermont, Fayette County, Iowa.<br />
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==Stratigraphic relationships==<br />
The Clermont Shale Member is the upper member of the Scales Shale.<br />
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==Extent and thickness==<br />
The Clermont Member is generally 15-20 feet thick but thickens in central and southeastern Illinois.<br />
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==Lithology==<br />
The Clermont Member is dominantly gray shale overlying the zone of interbedded shale and limestone in the upper part of the Elgin Shale Member. Where that zone cannot be distinguished, which is commonly the case in subsurface, it is not differentiated.<br />
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==References==<br />
CALVIN, SAMUEL, 1906, Geology of Winneshiek County: Iowa Geological Survey, v. 16, p. 37-146.<br />
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