Walgreen Member

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Lithostratigraphy: Ottawa Limestone Megagroup >>Platteville Group >>Plattin Subgroup >>Grand Detour Formation >>Walgreen Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Ordovician System >>Champlainian Series >>Blackriveran Stage
Allostratigraphy: Tippecanoe 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)

H. B. Willman and T. C. Buschbach

Name

Original description

The Walgreen Member of the Grand Detour Formation (Templeton and Willman, 1963, p. 85).

Derivation

Named for the Walgreen estate, on which the type section (part of the Grand Detour type section) occurs.

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History/background

Type section

Type location

The type section of the Walgreen Member is located above the Dement Member in the same type section as that of the Grand Detour (a quarry in the west bluff of the Rock River, on the Walgreen estate 2 miles north of Dixon (NE 20, 22N-9E)) where it is 8.3 feet thick.

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Stratigraphic relationships

Extent and thickness

The Walgreen Member is generally 5-10 feet thick in the outcrop areas in northern Illinois and eastern Missouri.

Lithology

Most of the Walgreen Member is gray, thin- to medium-bedded, argillaceous, shaly limestone that contains disseminated fossil debris and thin beds of purplish gray calcarenite. In the southern outcrop area it is brown, thicker bedded, and less argillaceous than in northern Illinois.

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Remarks

References

TEMPLETON, J. S., and H. B. WILLMAN, 1963, Champlainian Series (Middle Ordovician) in Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 89, 260 p.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code Geo Unit Designation
8010
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