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Primary source[edit | edit 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[edit | edit source]

Golconda Group (Brokaw, 1916, pl. 3; Ulrich, ''in'' Butts, 1917, p. 91-95; Swann, 1963, p. 68).

Derivation[edit | edit source]

Named for Golconda, Pope County.

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The type section of the Golconda Group is in the bluffs of the Ohio River above Golconda (secs. 5, 8, 18, 13S-7E).

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Stratigraphic relationships[edit | edit source]

The Golconda Group is a limestone-shale unit, but it has a sandstone member locally present in its lower part in the northeastern part of its area. It consists of the Beech Creek Limestone at the base, the Fraileys Shale, and the Haney 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>

Extent and thickness[edit | edit source]

The Golconda Group ranges from about 60 feet thick near its northern limit to over 180 feet near its southern limit.

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Reference(s)[edit | edit source]

place a <pre><br></pre>at the end of a line to get a line return BROKAW, A. D., 1916, Preliminary oil report on southern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Extract Bulletin 35, 13 p.<br> 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.<br> SWANN, D. H., 1963, Classification of Genevievian and Chesterian (Late Mississippian) rocks of Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 216, 91 p.

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