https://ilstratwiki.web.illinois.edu/index.php?title=Historical:Rapid_Member&feed=atom&action=historyHistorical:Rapid Member - Revision history2024-03-29T15:26:07ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.38.4https://ilstratwiki.web.illinois.edu/index.php?title=Historical:Rapid_Member&diff=14950&oldid=prevJennifer.Obrad at 21:50, 6 January 20172017-01-06T21:50:27Z<p></p>
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==Authors==<br />
Charles Collinson and Elwood Atherton<br />
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==Name Origin==<br />
The Rapid Member of the Cedar Valley Limestone (Keyes, 1912, p. 149; 1913, p. 205-206), which overlies the Solon, is named for a locality in Johnson County, Iowa, not specified by Keyes.<br />
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==Extent and Thickness==<br />
The Rapid is the most widespread and thickest member. It is as much as 60 feet thick in the Rock Island area, but it thins to the east and south. It forms the upper 53 feet of the quarry southeast of Milan.<br />
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==Description==<br />
The Rapid Member consists of gray to buff, fine-grained, argillaceous, locally dolomitic limestone. Most of it is thick bedded, but the upper and lower parts are thin bedded and have shaly partings.<br />
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==Fossils==<br />
Some beds, especially near the top and bottom, are very fossiliferous. Brachiopods and corals are most common, particularly ''Atrypa'', ''Stropheodonta'', ''Chonetes'', ''Spirifer'', ''Schizophoria'', ''Pentamerella'', ''Hexagonaria'', ''Favosites'', and ''Heliophyllum'' (Edmund and Anderson, 1967) (fig. D-6). Conodonts indicate a late Middle Devonian age (Collinson et al., 1967b).<br />
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==References==<br />
COLLINSON, CHARLES, M. P. CARLSON, F. H. DORHEIM, and J. W. KOENIG, 1967b, Central Iowa Basin, ''in'' International symposium on the Devonian System: Alberta Society of Petroleum Geologists, v. 1, p. 963-971; Illinois State Geological Survey Reprint 1968-G.<br><br />
EDMUND, R. W., and R. C. ANDERSON, 1967, Mississippi River Arch: 31st Annual Tri-State Field Conference Guidebook, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, 64 p.<br><br />
KEYES, C. R., 1912, Some provincial and local phases of the general geologic section of Iowa: Iowa Academy of Science Proceedings, v. 19, p. 147-151.<br><br />
KEYES, C. R., 1913, Late Devonic sequence of the Iowa region (synopsis): Iowa Academy of Science Proceedings, v. 20, p. 205-206.<br />
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