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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

Name

Original description

Glen Dean Limestone (Butts, 1917, p. 97-102).

Derivation

Named for the town of Glen Dean, Breckenridge County, Kentucky.

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History/background

Type section

Type location

The type section of the Glen Dean Limestone is in exposures along a railroad (abandoned) on both sides of the town of Glen Dean, Breckenridge County, Kentucky.

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Stratigraphic relationships

Extent and thickness

The Glen Dean is a limestone-shale unit that thickens from 5-15 feet in the north to 65-80 feet in the south (fig. M-42). <center> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- |<gallery caption="" widths=250px heights=250px perrow=4> Figure_M-42.jpg|{{file:Figure_M-42.jpg}} </gallery> |} </center>

Lithology

In subsurface the top and base of the Glen Dean are put at the limits of well defined limestone strata. In the south, the Glen Dean typically has a threefold division into upper and lower limestone units separated by shale. In a few places a shale lens occurs in the lower limestone. Farther north only the lower limestone unit is generally present, and the formation is correspondingly thinner. In general, where the Glen Dean is relatively thick it contains a higher proportion of shale. The Glen Dean has fairly rapid lateral variations in thickness and in limestone-shale ratio, particularly in the upper two units, and boundaries between the subdivisions are not consistent throughout large areas. The Glen Dean is composed of limestone and various amounts of dolomite and shale. The limestone is light to medium brownish gray, coarse grained, and fossiliferous. Parts of it are oolitic and some beds are cherty. Well developed oolitic limestone is rare in younger Chesterian limestones. The shales are dark greenish gray and are generally fossiliferous.

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Fossils

The bryozoan ''Prismopora serrulata'' is abundant and the blastoid ''Pentremites spicatus'' is also characteristic of the Glen Dean. The ''Pterotocrinus acutus - P. bifurcatus'' Assemblage Zone is equivalent to the Glen Dean.

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Reference(s)

place a <pre><br></pre>at the end of a line to get a line return BUTTS, CHARLES, 1917, Descriptions and correlations of the Mississippian formations of western Kentucky, Part I of Mississippian formations of western Kentucky: Kentucky Geological Survey, v. 1, 119 p.

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