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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.

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Elwood Atherton, Charles Collinson, and Jerry A. Lineback

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Original description

Elviran Stage (Swann, 1963, p. 23, 65), originally called the Elvira Group (J. M. Weller, 1939).

Derivation

Named for Elvira Township, Johnson County (12S-2E).

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Stratigraphic relationships

The Elviran Stage is the youngest stage of the Chesterian Series. It includes the nine formations younger than the Glen Dean Limestone (fig. M-25). <center> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- |<gallery caption="" widths=250px heights=250px perrow=4> Figure_M-25.jpg|{{file:Figure_M-25.jpg}} </gallery> |} </center>

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Lithology

The limestones of the Elviran Stage are generally darker and finer grained and contain more silt and argillaceous material and less abundant fossils than the older Chesterian limestones.

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Representative fossils include ''Pentremites fohsi'', ''Pterotocrinus menardensis'', ''Composita subquadrata'', ''Eumetria costata'', and ''Sulcatopinna missouriensis''.

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place a <pre><br></pre>at the end of a line to get a line return SWANN, D. H., 1963, Classification of Genevievian and Chesterian (Late Mississippian) rocks of Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 216, 91 p.<br> WELLER, J. M., 1939, Mississippian System: Kansas Geological Society Guidebook, 13th Annual Field Conference, southwestern Illinois and southeastern Missouri, p. 131-137.

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