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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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T. C. Buschbach

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Original description

The Kenyon Member of the Mt. Simon Sandstone (Templeton, 1950, p. 154).

Derivation

Named for Kenyon School, De Kalb County.

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History/background

Type section

Type location

The type section of the Kenyon Member of the Mt. Simon Sandstone is located 3.25 miles northwest of the school for which it is named in De Kalb County. It is the interval from 2975-3105 feet deep (sample set 1301) in the same boring as the Crane Member.

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Stratigraphic relationships

The Kenyon Member overlies the Crane Member of the Mt. Simon Sandstone.

Extent and thickness

The Kenyon Member is 34-130 feet thick.

Lithology

Where less than 80 feet thick it consists of coarse-grained sandstone containing small quartz pebbles, but elsewhere it is conglomeratic sandstone interbedded with nonconglomeratic layers.

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Reference(s)

place a <pre><br></pre>at the end of a line to get a line return TEMPLETON, J. S., 1950, Mt. Simon Sandstone in northern Illinois: Illinois Academy of Science Transactions, v. 43, p. 151-159.

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