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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 Lombard Dolomite Member of the Eau Claire Formation (Buschbach, 1964, p. 32).

Derivation

Named for Lombard, Du Page County.

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History/background

Type section

Type location

The type section of the Lombard Dolomite Member is located 2 miles east of Lombard, DuPage County, and is at a depth of 1535-1640 feet (sample set 15,336) in the same boring as the Elmhurst Member.

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Stratigraphic relationships

The Lombard Dolomite Member overlies the Elmhurst Member of the Eau Claire Formation.

Extent and thickness

The Lombard Member is recognized in northeastern Illinois, where it ranges from a few to 150 feet thick.

Lithology

The Lombard consists chiefly of grayish brown, glauconitic, partly sandy dolomite containing beds of greenish gray shale. It contains beds of limestone in Kane and DuPage Counties. Northward and westward it grades to sandstone, and southward it becomes more shaly.

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place a <pre><br></pre>at the end of a line to get a line return BUSCHBACH, T. C., 1964, Cambrian and Ordovician strata of northeastern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 218, 90 p.

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