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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 />
Fort Atkinson Limestone (Calvin, 1906, p. 60, 98).<br />
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===Derivation===<br />
Named for exposures at Fort Atkinson, Winneshiek County, Iowa.<br />
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===Other names===<br />
The Fort Atkinson Limestone has been called the Divine Limestone (Lamar and Willman, 1931) and the "middle limestone" (DuBois, 1945).<br />
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==Stratigraphic relationships==<br />
The Fort Atkinson Limestone is the "middle limestone" formation in the Maquoketa Group.<br />
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==Extent and thickness==<br />
The Fort Atkinson Formation is exposed in northeastern Illinois, particularly at Wilmington, Will County (SE SW NW 25, 33N-9E) and near the Dresden Island Dam, Grundy County (SE NE NW 34, 34N-8E). It is widely distributed in subsurface in Illinois and is commonly 15-40 feet thick.<br />
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==Lithology==<br />
In some areas, for instance in much of the Maquoketa outcrop area in northwestern Illinois, the Fort Atkinson becomes very shaly and is inseparable from the shales above and below. In other areas it includes limestone laterally equivalent to the shale formations above and/or below. The Fort Atkinson changes within short distances from white or pink, coarse-grained, crinoidal limestone to brown fine-grained dolomite or gray argillaceous limestone. In some localities the upper part is limestone, the lower part dolomite. The amount of interbedded shale varies greatly.<br />
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==Fossils==<br />
The Fort Atkinson is generally fossiliferous with a large fauna of brachiopods and bryozoans (Savage, 1925a).<br />
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==Age and correlation==<br />
The Fort Atkinson Formation correlates with the Waynesville Limestone in Ohio and Kentucky.<br />
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==References==<br />
CALVIN, SAMUEL, 1906, Geology of Winneshiek County: Iowa Geological Survey, v. 16, p. 37-146.<br />
DUBOIS, E. P., 1945, I. Subsurface relations of the Maquoketa and "Trenton" Formations in Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 105, p. 7-33.<br><br />
LAMAR, J. E., and H. B. WILLMAN, 1931, High-calcium limestone near Morris, Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 23, 26 p.<br><br />
SAVAGE, T. E., 1925a, Correlation of the Maquoketa and Richmond rocks of Iowa and Illinois: Illinois Academy of Science Transactions, v. 17, p. 233-247.<br />
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