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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.

M. E. Hopkins and J. A. Simon

The Reynoldsburg Coal Member of the Abbott Formation (Weller, 1940, p. 39).

Named for Reynoldsburg, Johnson County.

===History/background=== ==Type section== ===Type location=== The type locality is north of Cedar Creek, Johnson County, Illinois (W 1/2 32, 11S-4E). ===Type author(s)=== ===Type status=== ==Reference section== ===Reference location=== ===Reference author(s)=== ===Reference status=== ==Stratigraphic relationships== The Reynoldsburg Coal Member is the lowermost named member in southern Illinois. ==Extent and thickness== The Reynoldsburg is well known only in a relatively small area in the central part of the southern Illinois outcrop belt, where the thickness of the coal is very irregular but is as much as 3 feet. ==Lithology== The Reynoldsburg varies in character, apparently grading to a canneloid black shale near the type locality. The Reynoldsburg Coal has been mined locally in the type area. It is well exposed along Interstate 24 in the northernmost of a series of large highway cuts, which exposes all the Caseyville Formation and the lowermost part of the Abbott Formation. ==Core(s)== ==Photograph(s)== ==Contacts== ==Well log characteristics== ==Fossils== ==Age and correlation== No coal at this position has been identified in western Illinois, but the No. 2 coal in western Kentucky is thought to be equivalent to the Reynoldsburg. ==Environments of deposition== ==Economic importance== ==Remarks== ==References== WELLER, J. M., 1940, Geology and oil possibilities of extreme southern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 71, 71 p. {{Codes |membercode=3800 |geo_unit=-- }}

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