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==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)==
H. B. Willman and John C. Frye
==Name==
===Original description===
The Tuscaloosa Formation (Smith and Johnson, 1887, p. 18, 95-117).
===Derivation===
Named for exposures along the Tuscaloosa (Black Warrior) River near Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
===Other names===
===History/background===
==Type section==
===Type location===
===Type author(s)===
===Type status===
==Reference section==
===Reference location===
===Reference author(s)===
===Reference status===
==Stratigraphic relationships==
==Extent and thickness==
It is exposed only locally in extreme southern Illinois and appears to have a patchy distribution (Pryor, 1960; Pryor and Ross, 1962; Ross, 1964). It has maximum thickness of 20 feet but is generally much thinner. The Tuscaloosa is well exposed along the Post Creek Cutoff, Pulaski County (cen. 2, 15S-2E), and in railroad cuts in the Thebes Gorge, 1 mile south of Rock Springs Hollow, Alexander County (SW 21, 15S-3W).
==Lithology==
It is largely chert gravel, generally moderately cemented with fine silica or white clay. The chert pebbles, in a matrix of coarse quartz sand, are mainly white or gray, but black pebbles are locally common. Beds of pebbly sand and white clay also are common. The clays are dominantly kaolinite (Pryor and Glass, 1961). The Little Bear Soil occurs in deposits at the base of the Tuscaloosa Formation. Gravel found northeast of Elco in northern Alexander County (SW SE 7, 14S-1W) is probably Tuscaloosa Gravel preserved in sink holes. Local concentrations of gray and black chert pebbles on the upland bedrock surfaces as far north as Kaolin, Union County (SW NW 2, 12S-2W), are probably residual or reworked from the Tuscaloosa.
==Core(s)==
==Photograph(s)==
==Contacts==
==Well log characteristics==
==Fossils==
==Age and correlation==
The Tuscaloosa in Illinois is similar in lithology and stratigraphic position to the Tuscaloosa of Kentucky and Tennessee, but it is a transgressive deposit and may be younger than the type Tuscaloosa.
==Environments of deposition==
==Economic importance==
==Remarks==
==Remarks==
The Tuscaloosa Formation has been abandoned in Illinois. The formation in Illinois and Missouri was found to be a different age than deposits in Kentucky and Tennessee, and the unit has been renamed [[Post Creek Formation]].


==References==
==References==
PRYOR, W. A., 1960, Cretaceous sedimentation in upper Mississippi Embayment: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 44, p. 1473-1504; Illinois State Geological Survey Reprint 1960-J.<br>
Harrison, Richard W. and Ronald J. Litwin, 1997, Campanian coastal plain sediments in southeastern Missouri and southern Illinois— significance to the early geologic history of the northern Mississippi Embayment: Cretaceous Research 18, no. 5, p. 687-696.<br>
PRYOR, W. A., and H. D. GLASS, 1961, Cretaceous-Tertiary clay mineralogy of the upper Mississippi Embayment: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 31, p. 36-51; Illinois State Geological Survey Reprint 1961-M.<br>
PRYOR, W. A., and C. A. ROSS, 1962, Geology of the Illinois parts of the Cairo, La Center, and Thebes Quadrangles: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 332, 39 p.<br>
ROSS, C. A., 1964, Geology of the Paducah and Smithland Quadrangles in Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 360, 32 p.<br>
SMITH, E. A., and L. C. JOHNSON, 1887, Tertiary and Cretaceous strata of the Tuscaloosa, Tombigbee, and Alabama Rivers: USGS Bulletin 43, 189 p.


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Latest revision as of 16:09, 31 August 2022

Lithostratigraphy: Embayment Megagroup >>Tuscaloosa Formation
Chronostratigraphy: Mesozoic Erathem >>Cretaceous System >>Gulfian Series

Remarks

The Tuscaloosa Formation has been abandoned in Illinois. The formation in Illinois and Missouri was found to be a different age than deposits in Kentucky and Tennessee, and the unit has been renamed Post Creek Formation.

References

Harrison, Richard W. and Ronald J. Litwin, 1997, Campanian coastal plain sediments in southeastern Missouri and southern Illinois— significance to the early geologic history of the northern Mississippi Embayment: Cretaceous Research 18, no. 5, p. 687-696.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code Geo Unit Designation
1440
Kp
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