Vermilionville Sandstone Member
Lithostratigraphy: Kewanee Group >>Carbondale Formation >>Vermilionville Sandstone Member
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 Vermilionville Sandstone Member of the Carbondale Formation (Cady, 1915, p. 29).
Derivation
Named for Vermilionville, La Salle County.
Other names
The Vermilionville was formerly called Cuba Sandstone in western Illinois (Savage, 1927) and Waupecan Sandstone in northeastern Illinois (Culver, 1922a).
History/background
Type section
Type location
The type locality is west of the village of Vermilionville, along the Vermilion River (SE 9, 32N-2E) (Wanless, 1956, p. 10).
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Stratigraphic relationships
It is well developed in northern and western Illinois, where it occurs in the interval between the Herrin (No. 6) and the Springfield (No. 5) Coals. It is probably present in southern Illinois, where three sandstone units, all of which locally occur in channels, are present in this interval. One sandstone is below the Herrin Coal, another is below the Briar Hill (No. 5A) Coal, and a third is associated with the Dykersburg Shale. The Vermilionville is generally overlain by a few feet of the Big Creek Shale and is underlain by the Canton Shale.
Extent and thickness
Lithology
The Vermilionville is an argillaceous to silty, fine-grained sandstone that in places occupies channels cut into the underlying strata. In such channels it is as much as 80 feet thick.
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References
CADY, G. H., 1915, Coal resources of District I (Longwall): Illinois State Geological Survey Mining Investigations Bulletin 10, 149 p.
CULVER, H. E., 1922a, Geology and mineral resources of the Morris Quadrangle: Illinois State Geological Survey Extract Bulletin 43B, 114 p.
SAVAGE, T. E., 1927, Significant breaks and overlaps in the Pennsylvanian rocks of Illinois: American Journal of Science, v. 14, p. 307-316.
WANLESS, H. R., 1956, Classification of the Pennsylvanian rocks of Illinois as of 1956: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 217, 14 p.
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