O'Nan Coal Member

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Lithostratigraphy: Kewanee Group >>Spoon Formation >>O'Nan 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 O'Nan Coal Member of the Spoon Formation (Kosanke et al., 1960, p. 32).

Derivation

Named for Dennis O'Nan Ditch, which flows across the tip of Indian Hill, Union County, Kentucky, the type locality (Glenn, 1912, p. 25).

Other names

It previously was called the Curlew Coal (Owen, 1856, p. 47).

History/background

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Extent and thickness

The O'Nan Coal is generally thin, seldom over 1 foot thick in its scattered occurrences in southern Illinois.

Lithology

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Age and correlation

It is now believed to be equivalent to the Bidwell Coal.

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References

GLENN, L. C., 1912, A geological reconnaissance of the Tradewater River region, with special reference to the coal beds: Kentucky Geological Survey Bulletin 17, 75 p.
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.
OWEN, D. D., 1856, Report of the geological survey in Kentucky made during the years 1854 and 1855: Kentucky Geological Survey Bulletin, v. I, Series 1, 416 p.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code Geo Unit Designation
3434
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