Galum Limestone Member

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Lithostratigraphy: Kewanee Group >>Carbondale Formation >>Galum Limestone 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 Galum Limestone Member of the Carbondale Formation (Bell et al., 1931, p. 3).

Derivation

Named for Galum Creek, Perry County.

Other names

History/background

Type section

Type location

The type section occurs along Galum Creek (near cen. N line 13, 6S-4W) (Wanless, 1956, p. 11).

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Stratigraphic relationships

It is overlain by the underclay of the Danville (No. 7) Coal and underlain by a few feet of greenish gray shale that separates the Galum from the Bankston Fork Limestone.

Extent and thickness

It is recognized only in and near Perry County, and is seldom more than 3 feet thick.

Lithology

It is generally an impure, argillaceous, nodular, nonfossiliferous limestone.

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Remarks

References

BELL, A. H., C. G. BALL, and L. C. MCCABE, 1931, Geology of the Pinckneyville and Jamestown areas, Perry County, Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Illinois Petroleum 19, 22 p.
WANLESS, H. R., 1956, Classification of the Pennsylvanian rocks of Illinois as of 1956: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 217, 14 p.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code Geo Unit Designation
2500
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