Beaver Bend Limestone Member
Lithostratigraphy: Pope Megagroup >>West Baden Group >>Paint Creek Group >>Ridenhower Formation >>Beaver Bend Limestone Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Mississippian Subsystem >>Chesterian Series >>Gasperian Stage
Allostratigraphy: Kaskaskia 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)
Elwood Atherton, Charles Collinson, and Jerry A. Lineback
Name
Original description
The Beaver Bend Limestone Member of the Ridenhower Formation (Malott, 1919, p. 9-10).
Derivation
Named for a prominent bend in Beaver Creek, Lawrence County, Indiana.
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History/background
Type section
Type location
The type section of the Beaver Bend Limestone Member is a railroad cut half a mile east of Huron.
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Stratigraphic relationships
The Beaver Bend Limestone Member is the lowermost member of the Ridenhower Formation.
Extent and thickness
Lithology
The Beaver Bend is classified as a formation in Indiana. It consists of limestone and shale, and in southeastern Illinois it can be differentiated from the Reelsville Member only locally, where the intervening Sample Sandstone is present.
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Remarks
References
MALOTT, C. A., 1919, "American Bottoms" region of eastern Greene County, Indiana-a type unit in southern Indiana physiography: Indiana University Studies, v. 6, 61 p.
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