Granger Sandstone Member

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Lithostratigraphy: Kewanee Group >>Spoon Formation >>Granger Sandstone 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 Granger Sandstone Member of the Spoon Formation (Kosanke et al., 1960, p. 32).

Derivation

Named for Grangertown, Kentucky.

Other names

It was originally called the Curlew Sandstone (Owen, 1856, No. 1 vertical section).

History/background

Type section

Type location

Grangertown is near Indian Hill, Union County, Kentucky, the type locality (Glenn, 1912, p. 24-26).

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Stratigraphic relationships

Extent and thickness

About 40 feet of Granger Sandstone is well exposed in the Creal Springs Quarry in Williamson County (25, 10S-3E). The sandstone is probably present in much of the deeper part of the Illinois Basin.

Lithology

The Granger Sandstone is widespread in southern Illinois, occurring in channel and nonchannel facies and varying considerably in thickness and bedding characteristics.

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References

GLENN, L. C., 1912, A geological reconnaissance of the Tradewater River region, with special reference to the coal beds: Kentucky Geological Survey Bulletin 17, 75 p.
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
3380
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