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===History/background===
===History/background===
The Springfield (No. 5) Coal Member and the Harrisburg (No. 5) Coal Member of the Carbondale Formation are the same unit, but separate names are retained because of long-established usage-- "Springfield" in central, northern, and western Illinois and "Harrisburg" in southern and eastern Illinois.  
The Springfield (No. 5) Coal Member and the Harrisburg (No. 5) Coal Member of the Carbondale Formation are the same unit, but separate names are retained because of long-established usage-- "Springfield" in central, northern, and western Illinois and "Harrisburg" in southern and eastern Illinois.


==Type section==
==Type section==
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==Remarks==
==Remarks==
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==References==
==References==

Revision as of 17:50, 11 July 2018

Lithostratigraphy: Kewanee Group >>Carbondale Formation >>Springfield and Harrisburg Coal Members
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Pennsylvanian Subsystem >>Desmoinesian 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 term "No. 5" was first applied to this coal by Worthen (1870, p. 93) in his description of the geology of Fulton County. It was later applied to the coal mined in the Springfield, Sangamon County, district (Shaw and Savage, 1913, p. 3). The Harrisburg (No. 5) Coal Member (Shaw and Savage, 1912, p. 7) is named for Harrisburg, Saline County, where it is mined.

Derivation

Other names

History/background

The Springfield (No. 5) Coal Member and the Harrisburg (No. 5) Coal Member of the Carbondale Formation are the same unit, but separate names are retained because of long-established usage-- "Springfield" in central, northern, and western Illinois and "Harrisburg" in southern and eastern Illinois.

Type section

Type location

Underground exposures in coal mines in Springfield were made the type section (16, 16N-4W) (Wanless, 1956, p. 10).

Type author(s)

Type status

Reference section

Reference location

Reference author(s)

Reference status

Stratigraphic relationships

Extent and thickness

It is commonly 4-8 feet thick (fig P-12). The coal is absent along the northern margin of the Pennsylvanian rocks.

Lithology

The No. 5 Coal is second only to the Herrin (No. 6) Coal in commercial importance in Illinois. In southwestern Illinois it has been strip mined in a few pits where the Herrin is the principal coal. It is normally overlain by a black fissile shale, but in southeastern Illinois, in a belt several miles wide that trends southwestward, the coal is thick and it is overlain by the gray silty Dykersburg Shale. In that belt the coal is more commonly split by shale partings, and contains less pyrite than where it is overlain by the black fissile shale (Hopkins, 1968).

Core(s)

Photograph(s)

Contacts

Well log characteristics

Fossils

Age and correlation

The No. 5 Coal is the most important coal in Indiana, where it is now called the Springfield Coal Member (V), and in western Kentucky, where it is called the No. 9 (Mulford) coal. It is correlated with the Summit coal in Missouri.

Environments of deposition

Economic importance

Remarks

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References

HOPKINS, M. E., 1968, Harrisburg (No. 5) Coal reserves of southeastern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 431, 25 p.
SHAW, E. W., and T. E. SAVAGE, 1912, Murphysboro and Herrin Quadrangles: USGS Geological Atlas Folio 185, 15 p.
SHAW, E. W., and T. E. SAVAGE, 1913, Tallula and Springfield Quadrangles: USGS Geological Atlas Folio 188, 12 p.
WANLESS, H. R., 1956, Classification of the Pennsylvanian rocks of Illinois as of 1956: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 217, 14 p.
WORTHEN, A. H., 1870, Geology and paleontology: Geological Survey of Illinois, v. 4, 508 p.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code Geo Unit Designation
2790
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