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Primary source

Willman, H. B., Elwood Atherton, T. C. Buschbach, Charles Collinson, John C. Frye, M. E. Hopkins, Jerry A. Lineback, and Jack A. Simon, 1975, Handbook of Illinois Stratigraphy: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 95, 261 p.

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M. E. Hopkins and J. A. Simon

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Original description

The Jamestown Coal Member of the Carbondale Formation (Bell et al., 1931, p. 3) is a widespread but thin coal in southern Illinois.

Derivation

Named for Jamestown, Perry County.

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Jamestown is near the type locality (NW NE 34, 5S-4W) (Wanless, 1939, p. 17, 19, 88; 1956, p. 10).

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Extent and thickness

The coal is seldom more than a few inches thick in southern Illinois (fig. P-3B), but in southern Clark County and adjacent Crawford County in eastern Illinois it is reported in drill records to be as much as 6 feet thick. <center> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- |<gallery caption="" widths=250px heights=250px perrow=4> Figure P-3B.jpg|{{file:Figure P-3B.jpg}} </gallery> |} </center>

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Age and correlation

The Jamestown Coal is equivalent to the Hymera Coal Member (VI), which is an important commercial coal in Indiana, and to the No. 12 coal in western Kentucky.

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place a <pre><br></pre>at the end of a line to get a line return BELL, A. H., C. G. BALL, and L. C. MCCABE, 1931, Geology of the Pinckneyville and Jamestown areas, Perry County, Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Illinois Petroleum 19, 22 p.<br> WANLESS, H. R., 1939, Pennsylvanian correlations in the Eastern Interior and Appalachian coal fields: Geological Society of America Special Paper 17, 130 p.<br> WANLESS, H. R., 1956, Classification of the Pennsylvanian rocks of Illinois as of 1956: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 217, 14 p.

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