Gentry Coal Bed

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Lithostratigraphy: McCormick Group >>Caseyville Formation >>Gentry Coal Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Pennsylvanian Subsystem >>Morrowan 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 Gentry Coal Member of the Caseyville Formation (Kosanke et al., 1960, p. 29).

Derivation

Named for Gentry Landing, Hardin County.

Other names

It previously was called the Battery Rock Coal (Owen, 1856, No. 1 vertical section).

History/background

Type section

Type location

The type locality consists of exposures near Gentry Landing (SW 26, 11S-10E).

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Stratigraphic relationships

Its exact relation to the Sellers Limestone has not been established, although field relations suggest that the Gentry is slightly above the Sellers.

Extent and thickness

Lithology

The Gentry Coal has been identified as a thin coal in several scattered localities in southeastern Illinois but is apparently not persistent. It was mined more than 100 years ago in small mines near the settlement of Lamb in Hardin County. It is underlain by a thin underclay, which overlies a thick, gray, silty shale that is equivalent to part of the Drury Shale. It is overlain by a shale that also is equivalent to part of the Drury Shale.

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Age and correlation

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Remarks

References

KOSANKE, R. M., J. A. SIMON, H. R. WANLESS, and H. B. WILLMAN, 1960, Classification of the Pennsylvanian strata of Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 214, 84 p.
OWEN, D. D., 1856, Report of the geological survey in Kentucky made during the years 1854 and 1855: Kentucky Geological Survey Bulletin, v. I, Series 1, 416 p.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code Geo Unit Designation
3900
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