https://ilstratwiki.web.illinois.edu/index.php?title=Historical:Schweizer_Member&feed=atom&action=historyHistorical:Schweizer Member - Revision history2024-03-29T00:05:08ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.38.4https://ilstratwiki.web.illinois.edu/index.php?title=Historical:Schweizer_Member&diff=14885&oldid=prevJennifer.Obrad at 23:55, 4 January 20172017-01-04T23:55:06Z<p></p>
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==Authors==<br />
H. B. Willman and Elwood Atherton<br />
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==Name Origin==<br />
The Schweizer Member of the Wilhelmi Formation (Willman, 1973, p. 13), the basal member, is named for Schweizer School a mile east of the type section.<br />
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==Type Section==<br />
The type section of the Schweizer Member is part of the Wilhelmi Formation type section, located in a railroad cut about 5 miles southwest of Wilhelmi Airport (SE SW SE 35, 35N-9E).<br />
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==Extent and Thickness==<br />
Although widely present in subsurface in northeastern Illinois and as much as 80 feet thick, the Schweizer Member is well exposed only in and near the type section, where it is 25 feet thick.<br />
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==Description==<br />
The Schweizer Member consists of medium to dark gray dolomitic shale at the base that grades to very argillaceous, silty dolomite at the top. A thin bed of limestone conglomerate marks the base in the type section.<br />
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==References==<br />
WILLMAN, H. B., 1973, Rock stratigraphy of the Silurian System in northeastern and northwestern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 479, 55 p.<br />
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