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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.

Contributing author(s)

M. E. Hopkins and J. A. Simon

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Original description

The Lonsdale Limestone Member of the Modesto Formation (Worthen, 1873, p. 328).

Derivation

Named for the old Lonsdale quarries, Peoria County.

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History/background

Type section

Type location

The original type section in the old quarry (N 1/2 6, 8N-7E) is no longer accessible, and an outcrop near by (14, 8N-7E) is a supplementary type section (Wanless, 1957, p. 194).

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Stratigraphic relationships

Extent and thickness

The Lonsdale is a well developed limestone in western and northern Illinois, where it averages 6-8 feet thick and locally is as much as 25 feet thick.

Lithology

It is a very fine-grained, light gray limestone, conglomeratic in part. Throughout much of its area of occurrence the upper part is nodular.

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Well log characteristics

Fossils

It contains a large and diversified marine fauna locally rich in fusulinids.

Age and correlation

It is correlative with at least a part of the West Franklin Limestone of southeastern Illinois, the Cooper Creek Limestone of Iowa, and the Madisonville Limestone Member of western Kentucky.

Environments of deposition

Economic importance

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Reference(s)

place a <pre><br></pre>at the end of a line to get a line return WANLESS, H. R., 1957, Geology and mineral resources of the Beardstown, Glasford, Havana, and Vermont Quadrangles: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 82, 233 p.<br> WORTHEN, A. H., 1873, Geology and paleontology: Geological Survey of Illinois, v. 5, 619 p.

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