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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.
H. B. Willman and T. C. Buschbach
Gunter Sandstone (Ball and Smith, 1903, p. 26).
Named for the now abandoned Gunter post office in Miller County, central Missouri, where it is 2.5-18 feet thick in exposures along the Osage River.
It is absent in outcrops of lower Prairie du Chien strata in Lee and Ogle Counties, Illinois. In subsurface, the Gunter is commonly a few to 20 feet thick and has a widespread but patchy distribution (fig. O-9). It is continuous and 10-25 feet thick between the centers of La Salle and McLean Counties in north-central Illinois. <center> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- |<gallery caption="" widths=250px heights=250px perrow=4> Figure_O-9.jpg|{{file:Figure_O-9.jpg}} </gallery> |} </center>
The Gunter consists of medium- to fine-grained, moderately sorted, subrounded quartz grains. It contains thin beds of light gray, fine-grained dolomite and small amounts of green shale. Sharp contacts and irregular distribution of the sandstone suggest unconformities at its top and bottom.
The Gunter is tentatively correlated with the Rose Run Sandstone at the base of the upper Knox in eastern Ohio and eastern Kentucky.
place a <pre><br></pre>at the end of a line to get a line return BALL, S. H., and A. F. SMITH, 1903, Geology of Miller County: Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines (2), v. 1, 207 p.
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