Historical:Shetlerville Limestone Member: Difference between revisions

From ILSTRAT
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(Created page with "{{B95}} __NOTOC__ {{Tree |tree1=Pope Megagroup |tree2=Cedar Bluff Limestone Group |tree3=Renault Limestone |tree4=Shelterville Limestone Member |tree21=Paleozoic Erathem...")
 
No edit summary
 
Line 5: Line 5:
|tree2=Cedar Bluff Limestone Group  
|tree2=Cedar Bluff Limestone Group  
|tree3=Renault Limestone  
|tree3=Renault Limestone  
|tree4=Shelterville Limestone Member  
|tree4=Shetlerville Limestone Member  
|tree21=Paleozoic Erathem  
|tree21=Paleozoic Erathem  
|tree22=Mississippian Subsystem  
|tree22=Mississippian Subsystem  

Latest revision as of 18:37, 7 February 2018

Handbook of Illinois Stratigraphy
Series Bulletin 95
Author H. B. Willman, Elwood Atherton, T. C. Buschbach, Charles Collinson, John C. Frye, M. E. Hopkins, Jerry A. Lineback, Jack A. Simon
Date 1975
Link Web page
PDF PDF file
Store ISGS Store

Lithostratigraphy: Pope Megagroup >>Cedar Bluff Limestone Group >>Renault Limestone >>Shetlerville Limestone Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Mississippian Subsystem >>Valmeyeran Series
Allostratigraphy: Kaskaskia Sequence

Authors

Elwood Atherton, Charles Collinson, and Jerry A. Lineback

Name Origin

The Shetlerville Limestone Member of the Renault Formation (S. Weller, in S. Weller et al., 1920, p. 123; Swann, 1963, p. 82) is named for Shetlerville, Hardin County.

Type Section

Weller designated the Shetlerville Member a formation, citing exposures of about 30 feet of limestone just east of Shetlerville as the type section. Swann (1963) put the upper shaly part in the Yankeetown, restricted the Shetlerville to 15 feet of limestone exposed in a quarry one-fourth of a mile south of Shetlerville (SE NE SW 35, 12S-7E), and classified it as a member of the Renault.

Description

Most of the limestone is dark greenish or brownish gray, sandy, and oolitic. The basal portion grades to sandstone and is named the Popcorn Sandstone Bed. Some beds are light colored and resemble the underlying Levias Member. The basal contact is sharp and may be unconformable.

Fossils

The Shetlerville contains the crinoid Talarocrinus (fig. M-4) and is the basal part of the Chesterian Series.

References

SWANN, D. H., 1963, Classification of Genevievian and Chesterian (Late Mississippian) rocks of Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 216, 91 p.
WELLER, STUART, CHARLES BUTTS, L. W. CURRIER, and R. D. SALISBURY, 1920, Geology of Hardin County and the adjoining part of Pope County: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 41 , 402 p.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code Geo Unit Designation
4510
--