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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.

Elwood Atherton, Charles Collinson, and Jerry A. Lineback

The State Pond Member of the Springville Shale (Collinson and Scott, 1958a, p. 5).

Named for State Pond, an artificial lake a mile northwest of Jonesboro, Union County.

===History/background=== ==Type section== ===Type location=== The type section of the State Pond Member is in the south bank of the stream, below the spillway of the dam (NW SE 14, 12S-2W), where the member is 14-15 inches thick. ===Type author(s)=== ===Type status=== ==Reference section== ===Reference location=== ===Reference author(s)=== ===Reference status=== ==Stratigraphic relationships== The State Pond Member of the Springville Shale is the base of the formation. ==Extent and thickness== ==Lithology== The State Pond is a greenish gray, soft, glauconitic shale containing phosphate nodules. ==Core(s)== ==Photograph(s)== ==Contacts== ==Well log characteristics== ==Fossils== The State Pond Member has yielded conodonts and ostracodes typical of the Fern Glen, Burlington, and Keokuk Limestones and probably is a deep-water equivalent of all three formations. ==Age and correlation== ==Environments of deposition== ==Economic importance== ==Remarks== ==References== COLLINSON, CHARLES, and A. J. SCOTT, 1958a, Age of the Springville Shale (Mississippian) of southern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 254, 12 p. {{Codes |membercode=5410 |geo_unit=-- }}

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