View source for McClearys Bluff Coal Member

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|category3=Absaroka Sequence
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==Primary source==
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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&#40;s&#41;==
M. E. Hopkins and J. A. Simon

==Name==

===Original description===
The McCleary 's Bluff Coal Member of the Mattoon Formation (Kosanke, 1950, p 89; Kosanke et al., 1960, p. 40, 51).

===Derivation===
Named for McCleary's Bluff, Wabash County.

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==Type section==

===Type location===
The type section consists of a 3-inch coal seam exposed on the bluff overlooking the Wabash River (NW SW SE 29, 2S-13W).

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==Stratigraphic relationships==
Its stratigraphic position is approximately 50 feet above the Friendsville Coal (Kosanke et al., 1960). It was erroneously placed below the Friendsville Coal by Kosanke (1950) and Siever (''in'' Wanless, 1956). An unnamed coal member approximately 1 foot thick lies 7 feet above the McCleary's Bluff Coal in its type area.

==Extent and thickness==
The only known exposures of the McCleary's Bluff Coal occur on McCleary's Bluff and at Keys Hill in Wabash County (NE SW 25, 1S-13W).  

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==References==
KOSANKE, R. M., 1950, Pennsylvanian spores of Illinois and their use in correlation: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 74, 128 p.<br>
KOSANKE, R. M., J. A. SIMON, H. R. WANLESS, and H. B. WILLMAN, 1960, Classification of the Pennsylvanian strata of Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 214, 84 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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