Scottsburg Limestone Member
Lithostratigraphy: Pope Megagroup >>Menard Limestone >>Scottsburg Limestone Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Mississippian Subsystem >>Chesterian Series >>Elviran Stage
Allostratigraphy: Kaskaskia 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)
Elwood Atherton, Charles Collinson, and Jerry A. Lineback
Name
Original description
The Scottsburg Limestone Member of the Menard Formation (Swann, 1963, p. 38-39).
Derivation
Named for Scottsburg, Caldwell County, Kentucky.
Other names
The Scottsburg Limestone Member has commonly been referred to as the "Massive Menard."
History/background
Type section
Type location
The type section of the Scottsburg Limestone Member is located 3 miles northeast of Scottsburg, Caldwell County, Kentucky in Walche's cut on the Illinois Central Railroad.
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Extent and thickness
The member is 30-40 feet thick in the far south, but it thins northward to about 5 feet.
Lithology
Much of the limestone is dense and fine grained to lithographic. Some beds are dolomitic.
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References
SWANN, D. H., 1963, Classification of Genevievian and Chesterian (Late Mississippian) rocks of Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 216, 91 p.
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