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==Primary source==<br />
Willman, H. B., and John C. Frye, 1970, Pleistocene Stratigraphy of Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 94, 204 p.<br />
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==Contributing author&#40;s&#41;==<br />
H. B. Willman and John C. Frye<br />
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==Name==<br />
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===Original description===<br />
The Roby Silt Member of the Glasford Formation was named the Roby Silt by Johnson (1964, p. 8) in the region of Sangamon and adjacent counties in central Illinois.<br />
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===Derivation===<br />
It was named for Roby, Christian County.<br />
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==Type section==<br />
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===Type location===<br />
The type section is the Roby Section (Johnson, 1964, p. 35), NW SE NE Sec. 14, T. 15 N., R. 3 W., Sangamon County.<br />
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==Stratigraphic relationships==<br />
The Roby Member occurs below the Radnor Till Member and above the Vandalia Till Member of the Glasford Formation. The member is recognized only where it is bounded by these two tills. Its position below the Radnor Till suggests that the Roby Member is stratigraphically equivalent to the silt in the upper part of the Toulon Member of central western Illinois, which is exposed in the Jubilee College Section (table 6).<br />
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==Extent and thickness==<br />
The Roby Silt Member is locally as much as 13 feet thick. Its character and extent have been described by Johnson (1964).<br />
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==Lithology==<br />
The unit consists of silt, clay, and sand.<br />
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==Well log characteristics==<br />
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==Fossils==<br />
The Roby locally contains a fauna of fossil mollusks. <br />
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==Age and correlation==<br />
The Roby Silt is in the earliest part of the Jubileean Substage of the Illinoian Stage. It is a pro-glacial deposit of the advancing glacier that deposited the Radnor<br />
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==Environments of deposition==<br />
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==Remarks==<br />
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==References==<br />
JOHNSON, W. H., 1964, Stratigraphy and petrography of Illinoian and Kansan drift in central Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 378, 38 p.<br />
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