https://ilstratwiki.web.illinois.edu/index.php?title=Historical:Levings_Member&feed=atom&action=historyHistorical:Levings Member - Revision history2024-03-28T16:04:22ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.38.4https://ilstratwiki.web.illinois.edu/index.php?title=Historical:Levings_Member&diff=12855&oldid=prevJennifer.Obrad at 17:35, 21 November 20162016-11-21T17:35:41Z<p></p>
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==Authors==<br />
H. B. Willman and John C. Frye<br />
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==Name Origin==<br />
The Levings Member of the McNairy Formation (Pryor and Ross, 1962, p. 19) is named for Levings, Pulaski County.<br />
==Type Section==<br />
Levings is 1.5 miles northeast of the type section along a creek southwest of U.S. Dam 53 (NW SW 18, 15S-2E).<br />
==Extent and Thickness==<br />
The Levings occurs in the middle part of the McNairy Formation, is 0-70 feet thick, and is generally present throughout the northern part of the Mississippi Embayment.<br />
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==Description==<br />
The Levings Member is largely lignitic silt and clay with thin beds of lignite.<br />
==References==<br />
PRYOR, W. A., and C. A. ROSS, 1962, Geology of the Illinois parts of the Cairo, La Center, and Thebes Quadrangles: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 332, 39 p.<br />
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