https://ilstratwiki.web.illinois.edu/index.php?title=Witt_Coal_Member&feed=atom&action=historyWitt Coal Member - Revision history2024-03-28T13:05:44ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.38.4https://ilstratwiki.web.illinois.edu/index.php?title=Witt_Coal_Member&diff=16037&oldid=prevJennifer.Obrad at 20:17, 23 January 20172017-01-23T20:17:35Z<p></p>
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==Primary source==<br />
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.<br />
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==Contributing author&#40;s&#41;==<br />
M. E. Hopkins and J. A. Simon<br />
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===Original description===<br />
The Witt Coal Member of the Bond Formation (Gluskoter, ''in'' Kosanke et al., 1960, p. 43).<br />
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===Derivation===<br />
Named for Witt, Montgomery County.<br />
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===History&#47;background===<br />
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==Type section==<br />
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===Type location===<br />
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The type section consists of exposures along the East Fork of Shoal Creek, about 6.5 miles south of Witt (NE NW SE 7, 8N-2W).<br />
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==Stratigraphic relationships==<br />
In the Witt type area the coal lies approximately 45 feet above the Flat Creek Coal.<br />
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==Extent and thickness==<br />
The Witt Coal is generally less than 1 foot thick and is recognized only in southwestern Illinois.<br />
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==Age and correlation==<br />
It has been tentatively correlated with a persistent, unnamed, thin coal that occurs about 35 feet above the Reel Limestone throughout eastern and southeastern Illinois.<br />
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==References==<br />
KOSANKE, R. M., J. A. SIMON, H. R. WANLESS, and H. B. WILLMAN, 1960, Classification of the Pennsylvanian strata of Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 214, 84 p.<br />
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