Gordonville Member

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Lithostratigraphy: Ottawa Limestone Megagroup >>Ancell Group >>Dutchtown Limestone >>Gordonville 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 Gordonville Member of the Dutchtown Limestone (Templeton and Willman, 1963, p. 54).

Derivation

Named for Gordonville, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.

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History/background

Type section

Type location

The Gordonville Member type section is located 4.5 southeast of Gordonville, in the Geiser Quarry, 1.25 miles east of Dutchtown (SW NW NW 20, projected, 30N-13E), where the upper 5 feet is exposed.

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Stratigraphic relationships

The Gordonville Member is the lower member of the Dutchtown Limestone.

Extent and thickness

In wells in Illinois the Gordonville Member ranges from 130 feet thick in southern Pulaski County to 45 feet in southwestern Jackson County, north of which it thins out rapidly. It does not extend as far north as the overlying Sharpsboro Member.

Lithology

The Gordonville Member normally consists of dolomite with subordinate amounts of limestone, but in southern Jackson County, close to the transition into the St. Peter Sandstone, it is composed mainly of dolomite-cemented, medium-grained sandstone. The dolomite and limestone are mostly sandy, silty, greenish gray to dark gray, and a few layers are dark brown to black.

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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
8320
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