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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.
H. B. Willman and T. C. Buschbach
The Medusa Member of the Pecatonica Formation (Templeton and Willman, 1963, p. 77).
Named for the Medusa Cement Company plant, 2 miles northeast of Dixon, Lee County, which is 1.5 miles south of the type section.
The type section of the Medusa Member is in a quarry on the east side of the Rock River Valley (SW SW NW 22, 22N-9E), where the member is 5.2 feet thick.
In the northern outcrop area the Medusa Member is commonly 5-7 feet thick, but it thickens to 20 feet in extreme southern Illinois.
In the outcrop area the Medusa Member consists of dolomite or of limestone heavily mottled with dolomite. It is slightly argillaceous, very fucoidal, and thick bedded to massive. South of Ogle County it contains chert nodules.
place a <pre><br></pre>at the end of a line to get a line return TEMPLETON, J. S., and H. B. WILLMAN, 1963, Champlainian Series (Middle Ordovician) in Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 89, 260 p.
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