Historical:Sterling Till Member

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Pleistocene stratigraphy of Illinois
Series Bulletin 94
Author H. B. Willman and John C. Frye
Date 1970
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Lithostratigraphy: Glasford Formation >>Sterling Till Member
Chronostratigraphy: Cenozoic Erathem >>Quaternary System >>Pleistocene Series

Authors

H. B. Willman and John C. Frye

Name origin

The Sterling Till Member of the Glasford Formation was informally named the Sterling till (Frye et al., 1969, p. 25) for Sterling, Whiteside County. It is herein formally named a member.

Type section

The type section is the Emerson Quarry Section (Frye et al., 1969, p. 34) 2 miles west of Sterling, SE NW SE Sec. 13, T. 21 N., R. 6 E.

Stratigraphic relationships

It is the uppermost till member of the Glasford in the region north of the Green River Lobe and is similar in clay mineral composition to the Radnor Till Member, which occupies the same stratigraphic position south of the Green River Lobe.

The upper boundary of the member is the top of the Sangamon Soil, or, locally, the base of the accretion-gley of the Berry Clay Member (e.g., Red Birch School, Coleta Sections, table 7). It is overlain in some places by the Winnebago Formation, the Robein Silt, the Wedron Formation, or the Peoria Loess, and it overlies the Ogle Till Member or older units.

Extent and thickness

The Sterling Member is as much as 40 feet thick in the vicinity of Sterling, but it generally is thinner. The geographic extent of the Sterling Till Member is shown in figure 6.

Lithology

It has an extremely high illite content. Its typical composition is given in table 2.

Age and correlation

The Sterling Till Member is classed within the Jubileean Substage of the Illinoian Stage.

References

FRYE, J. C., H. D. GLASS, J. P. KEMPTON, and H. B. WILLMAN, 1969, Glacial tills of northwestern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 437, 47 p.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code Geo Unit Designation
0840
g-rs