Purington Shale Member

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Lithostratigraphy: Kewanee Group >>Carbondale Formation >>Purington Shale 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 Purington Shale Member of the Carbondale Formation (Wanless, 1931a, p. 184, 188, 192).

Derivation

Named for the Purington Brick Company pit at East Galesburg, Knox County.

Other names

History/background

Type section

Type location

The Purington Brick Company pit exposes the type section (SW 17, 11N-2E) (Wanless, 1956, p. 10).

Type author(s)

Type status

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Stratigraphic relationships

Extent and thickness

The Purington is a widespread gray shale that overlies the Oak Grove Limestone and attains a maximum thickness of about 50 feet in western and northern Illinois.

Lithology

It commonly contains marine fossils and sideritic concretions in the bottom part and becomes silty and sandy toward the top.

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Well log characteristics

Fossils

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Economic importance

Remarks

References

WANLESS, H. R., 1931a, Pennsylvanian cycles in western Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 60, p.
WANLESS, H. R., 1956, Classification of the Pennsylvanian rocks of Illinois as of 1956: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 217, 14 p.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code	Geo Unit Designation
2930	--