Eagle Point Member
Lithostratigraphy: Ottawa Limestone Megagroup >>Galena Group >>Kimmswick Subgroup >>Dunleith Formation >>Eagle Point Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Ordovician System >>Champlainian Series >>Trentonian Stage
Allostratigraphy: Tippecanoe 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)
H. B. Willman and T. C. Buschbach
Name
Original description
The Eagle Point Member of the Dunleith Formation (Templeton and Willman, 1963, p. 120).
Derivation
Named for Eagle Point, a prominent bluff on the west side of the Mississippi Valley in Dubuque County, Iowa, 2 miles north of the type section.
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History/background
Type section
Type location
The type section of the Eagle Point Member is part of the Dunleith Formation type section (in an exposure in the Mississippi River bluffs on the north side of East Dubuque (SE 19, 29N-2W)), where the Eagle Point Member is 11.8 feet thick.
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Stratigraphic relationships
The Eagle Point Member of the Dunleith Formation overlies the Beecher Member.
Extent and thickness
The Eagle Point Member is commonly 12-18 feet thick in the northern outcrop area and 9-10 feet in the southern area.
Lithology
The Eagle Point Member is characterized by well defined bands of chert nodules. It consists of slightly argillaceous dolomite-mottled limestone in the type section, but it is dolomite in most of northern Illinois. In the southern outcrop area it is calcarenite containing bands of chert, is finer grained, denser, and more argillaceous than the members above and below.
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References
TEMPLETON, J. S., and H. B. WILLMAN, 1963, Champlainian Series (Middle Ordovician) in Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 89, 260 p.
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