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===Original description=== | ===Original description=== | ||
The Winnebago Formation was informally named Winnebago drift (Frye and Willman, 1960) for Winnebago County, as a replacement for the term Farmdale drift (Shaffer, 1956). The term was formalized as a formation in 1969 (Frye et al.). | The Winnebago Formation was informally named Winnebago drift (Frye and Willman, 1960) for Winnebago County, as a replacement for the term Farmdale drift (Shaffer, 1956). The term was formalized as a formation in 1969 (Frye et al.). | ||
The unit is now considered to be late Illinois Episode (Berg et al., 1985; Curry; 1989; Hansel and McKay, 2010) | |||
===Derivation=== | ===Derivation=== |
Revision as of 20:06, 11 October 2018
Lithostratigraphy: Winnebago Formation
Chronostratigraphy: Cenozoic Erathem >>Quaternary System >>Pleistocene Series
Primary source
Willman, H. B., and John C. Frye, 1970, Pleistocene Stratigraphy of Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 94, 204 p.
Berg, R.C., Kempton, J.P., Follmer, L.R., McKenna, D.P., 1985. Illinoian and Wisconsinan stratigraphy and environments in northern Illinois: the Altonian revised. Illinois State Geological Survey Guidebook 19, 177 pp.
Curry, B.B., 1989. Absence of Altonian glaciation in Illinois. Quatern. Res. 31, 1–13.
Hansel, A.K., McKay, E.D., III, 2010. Quaternary period. In: Kolata, D.R., Nimz, C.K. (Eds.), Geology of Illinois. Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, IL, USA, pp. 216–247.
Contributing author(s)
H. B. Willman and John C. Frye
Name
Original description
The Winnebago Formation was informally named Winnebago drift (Frye and Willman, 1960) for Winnebago County, as a replacement for the term Farmdale drift (Shaffer, 1956). The term was formalized as a formation in 1969 (Frye et al.).
The unit is now considered to be late Illinois Episode (Berg et al., 1985; Curry; 1989; Hansel and McKay, 2010)
Derivation
Other names
History/background
Type section
Type location
The type locality was designated as the Rock Valley College Section and adjacent exposures and Northwest Tollway borings No. 2 and No. 5 (Kempton, 1963, p. 38). The type section is in the Rock Valley College Section, SW NW SW Sec. 10, T. 44 N., R. 2 E.
Type author(s)
Type status
Reference section
Reference location
Reference author(s)
Reference status
Stratigraphic relationships
The formation was defined to include those glacial deposits bounded by the Farmdale Soil at the top and the Sangamon Soil at the base.
It is subdivided into three named members: the Capron Till Member at the top, the Plano Silt Member below the Capron, and the Argyle Till Member below the Plano Silt. In the subsurface below the Argyle are silts, tills, and some outwash that have not been differentiated into members. The spatial relation of the Winnebago to adjacent stratigraphic units is shown diagrammatically in figure 8.
Extent and thickness
In the type section the Winnebago consists of 1.5 feet of Peoria Loess overlying 6 feet of leached till and 7 feet of calcareous, pink, sandy and cobbly till. The till is the Argyle Till Member of the Winnebago Formation. The Winnebago Formation probably is as much as 400 feet thick in the deeper bedrock valleys. The geographic distribution of the formation at the surface is indicated on the map in figure 6.
Lithology
The Winnebago Formation consists of tills, silts, peats, and outwash. The formation has been described in detail from deep core borings in Kane and McHenry Counties (Kempton, in Frye and Willman, 1965a), and its textural and mineral composition has been described (Frye et al., 1969).
Compositional data are given in tables 2, 4, and 5.
Core(s)
Photograph(s)
Contacts
Well log characteristics
Fossils
Age and correlation
Radiocarbon dates determined from the formation are listed in table 1.
The Winnebago Formation is entirely within the Altonian Substage of the Wisconsinan Stage. It is related largely to glacial advances from the Lake Michigan Lobe and possibly the Green Bay Lobe.
Environments of deposition
Economic importance
Remarks
References
FRYE, J. C., H. D. GLASS, J. P. KEMPTON, and H. B. WILLMAN, 1969, Glacial Tills of Northwestern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 437, 47 p.
FRYE, J. C., and H. B. WILLMAN, 1960, Classification of the Wisconsinan Stage in the Lake Michigan Glacial Lobe: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 285, 16 p.
FRYE, J. C., and H. B. WILLMAN, 1965a, [Illinois part of] Guidebook for field conference C—Upper Mississippi Valley (R. P. Goldthwait [organizer]; C. B. Schultz and H. T. U.
Smith [eds.]): International Association of Quaternary Research 7th Congress, Nebraska Academy of Science, p. 81-110; Illinois State Geological Survey Reprint 1966-B (supplemental data, J. P. Kempton and H. D. Glass, p. C-S1-C-S11), 41 p.
KEMPTON, J. P., 1963, Subsurface Stratigraphy of Pleistocene Deposits of Central-Northern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 356, 43 p.
SHAFFER, P. R., 1956, Farmdale drift in northwestern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 198, 25 p.
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