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Lithostratigraphy: McCormick Group >>Caseyville Formation >>Sellers Limestone Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Pennsylvanian Subsystem >>Morrowan 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 Sellers Limestone Member of the Caseyville Formation (Wanless, 1939, p. 36, 101).

Derivation

Named for Sellers Landing, Hardin County.

Other names

History/background

Type section

Type location

The type section is on the west bank of the Ohio River, at Sellers Landing (21, 11S-10E) (Wanless, 1956, p. 9).

Type author(s)

Type status

Reference section

Reference location

Reference author(s)

Reference status

Stratigraphic relationships

Extent and thickness

The Sellers Limestone is known only at the type locality, where about 10 feet is exposed.

Lithology

Part of the limestone is sandy and coarse grained and contains a varied marine fauna, but most of the Sellers is composed of beds of very fine-grained, argillaceous limestone interbedded with gray shale.

Core(s)

Photograph(s)

Contacts

Well log characteristics

Fossils

No fusulinids, ostracodes, or conodonts have been found in the Sellers.

Age and correlation

It is equivalent to part of the Drury Shale, but no limestone correlatives are known.

Environments of deposition

It is a major marine deposit in a complex fluvial-deltaic sequence.

Economic importance

Remarks

References

WANLESS, H. R., 1939, Pennsylvanian correlations in the Eastern Interior and Appalachian coal fields: Geological Society of America Special Paper 17, 130 p.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code Geo Unit Designation
3910
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