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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)

Elwood Atherton, Charles Collinson, and Jerry A. Lineback

Name

Original description

The Reelsville Limestone Member of the Ridenhower Formation (Malott, 1919, p. 10-11).

Derivation

Named for Reelsville, Putnam County, Indiana.

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History/background

Type section

Type location

The type section of the Reelsville Limestone Member is on the Eel River, just south of Reelsville, where the member is 2.5 feet thick.

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Stratigraphic relationships

The Reelsville Limestone Member is the uppermost member of the Ridenhower Formation.

Extent and thickness

Lithology

The Reelsville is classified as a formation in Indiana. It is dominantly limestone but contains beds of shale. It is not differentiated in the type section of the Ridenhower Formation, and it has limited distribution in southeastern Illinois, mostly in subsurface. The ''Agassizocrinus cf. leavis'' Peak Zone is equivalent to the Reelsville Member.

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Reference(s)

place a <pre><br></pre>at the end of a line to get a line return MALOTT, C. A., 1919, "American Bottoms" region of eastern Greene County, Indiana- a type unit in southern Indiana physiography: Indiana University Studies, v. 6, 61 p.

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