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==Primary source==<br />
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.<br />
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==Contributing author&#40;s&#41;==<br />
H. B. Willman and John C. Frye<br />
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===Original description===<br />
Porters Creek Formation (Safford, 1864, p. 361, 368).<br />
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===Derivation===<br />
Named for exposures on Porters Creek in Hardeman County, Tennessee.<br />
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==Stratigraphic relationships==<br />
The Porters Creek is overlain unconformably by the Wilcox Formation, which locally cuts deeply into the Porters Creek.<br />
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==Extent and thickness==<br />
It is present in Alexander and Pulaski Counties in southern Illinois (Lamar, 1928b; Pryor and Ross, 1962) and is well exposed in pits south of Olmsted, Pulaski County (NE SE 27, 15S-1E), in the Ohio River bluffs near U.S. Dam 53, and along the Cache River near Unity. It is 50-150 feet thick, but north of the Cache Valley it is completely truncated by the Mounds Gravel.<br />
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==Lithology==<br />
The Porters Creek is largely massive, compact, essentially unbedded or weakly bedded, dark gray to nearly black clay that has a blocky fracture. It is gray-tan to white where weathered. Because it does not readily become plastic when wet, it can stand in steeper faces than most clays. It is more than 80 percent montmorillonite. Because the clay has the absorptive and filtering properties of fuller's earth, it has been mined commercially south of Olmsted, Pulaski County.<br />
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==Fossils==<br />
Microfossils (Radiolaria, Hystrichospheridae, and Foraminifera) are abundant, but fish scales, shark teeth, and casts and molds of pelecypods and gastropods are also common.<br />
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==Age and correlation==<br />
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==Environments of deposition==<br />
The Porters Creek is a marine deposit representing an advance of the sea over essentially the entire area of the embayment.<br />
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==References==<br />
LAMAR, J. E., 1928b, Preliminary report on the fuller's earth deposits of Pulaski County: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 15, 31 p.<br><br />
PRYOR, W. A., and C. A. ROSS, 1962, Geology of the Illinois parts of the Cairo, La Center, and Thebes Quadrangles: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 332, 39 p.<br><br />
SAFFORD, J. M., 1864, On the Cretaceous and superior formations of west Tennessee: American Journal of Science, v. 37, p. 360-372.<br />
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