Kerton Creek coal bed

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Lithostratigraphy: Kewanee Group >>Carbondale Formation >>Kerton Creek Coal Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Pennsylvanian Subsystem >>Desmoinesian Series
Allostratigraphy: Absaroka Sequence

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.

Contributing author(s)

M. E. Hopkins and J. A. Simon

Name

Original description

The Kerton Creek Coal Member of the Carbondale Formation (Ekblaw, 1931 , p. 391).

Derivation

Named for Kerton Creek in Fulton County.

Other names

History/background

Type section

Type location

The type section is exposed along Kerton Creek (NE NE 15, 3N-2E) (Wanless, 1956, p. 10; 1957, p. 98, 189).

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Type status

Reference section

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Stratigraphic relationships

The Summum (No. 4) Coal, which also thickens in the same unfilled channels as the Kerton Creek, overlies the Kerton Creek by only a few feet. The Kerton Creek does not have an underclay but rests directly on the Pleasantview Sandstone.

Extent and thickness

This coal is recognized only in Fulton County, where it occurs in channels that had been only partially filled with the underlying Pleasantview Sandstone. The coal is up to 5 feet thick.

Lithology

This coal is either canneloid or quite high in ash.

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Fossils

Age and correlation

It is believed to correlate with the Roodhouse Coal of Greene County.

Environments of deposition

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Remarks

References

EKBLAW, S. E., 1931, Channel deposits of the Pleasantview Sandstone in western Illinois: Illinois Academy of Science Transactions, v. 23, p. 391-399.
WANLESS, H. R., 1956, Classification of the Pennsylvanian rocks of Illinois as of 1956: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 217, 14 p.
WANLESS, H. R., 1957, Geology and mineral resources of the Beardstown, Glasford, Havana, and Vermont Quadrangles: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 82, 233 p.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code Geo Unit Designation
2870
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