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Primary source[edit]

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)[edit]

Elwood Atherton, Charles Collinson, and Jerry A. Lineback

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Original description[edit]

Vienna Limestone (S. Weller, 1920, p. 396-398).

Derivation[edit]

Named for Vienna, Johnson County.

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History/background[edit]

Type section[edit]

Type location[edit]

The type section of the Vienna Limestone is in an old quarry west of the town of Vienna (NE SW NW 5, 13S-3E), where the formation is 14 feet thick.

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Stratigraphic relationships[edit]

Extent and thickness[edit]

It is a thin limestone, rarely more than about 8 feet thick and commonly only 3 or 4 feet (fig. M-44). However, in extreme southern Illinois the limestone thickens rapidly to 30 feet (fig. M-1A). Until recently, the calcareous shale locally present above and below the limestone bed was assigned to the Vienna (Swann, 1963). <center> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- |<gallery caption="" widths=250px heights=250px perrow=4> Figure_M-1A.jpg|{{file:Figure_M-1A.jpg}} Figure_M-44.jpg|{{file:Figure_M-44.jpg}} </gallery> |} </center>

Lithology[edit]

The limestone is mainly dark brownish gray, but some is brown or dark gray. It is generally very fossiliferous, with crinoid fragments predominating. It contains dark chocolate-brown chert nodules in the outcrop, but chert is rare in subsurface. Locally some beds are sandy. In places thin beds and partings of shale are interbedded with the limestone.

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Fossils[edit]

The fauna includes the bryozoan ''Prismopora serrulata'', which is also abundant in the Glen Dean, and the pelecypod ''Sulcatopinna missouriensis'', which is abundant in the Menard.

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Reference(s)[edit]

place a <pre><br></pre>at the end of a line to get a line return SWANN, D. H., 1963, Classification of Genevievian and Chesterian (Late Mississippian) rocks of Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 216, 91 p.<br> WELLER, STUART, 1920, Chester Series in Illinois: Journal of Geology, v. 28, p. 281-303, 395-416.

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