Chazyan Stage

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Lithostratigraphy: Knox Dolomite Megagroup
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Ordovician System >>Champlainian Series >>Chazyan 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

Chazyan Stage (Emmons, 1842, p. 107; Grabau, 1989, p. 223).

Derivation

Named for Chazy, New York.

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History/background

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Extent and thickness

In Illinois the Chazyan Stage includes only the Everton Dolomite, which is not exposed but is encountered in drilling in the southwestern part of the state.

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Age and correlation

The Everton is correlated with the type Chazyan on the basis of the fauna in the Everton type area in Arkansas and by subsurface tracing (Templeton and Willman, 1963).

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References

EMMONS, EBENEZER, 1842, Geology of New York, Part 2, comprising the survey of the second geological district: Albany, 437 p.
GRABAU, A. W., 1909, Physical and faunal evolution of North America during Ordovicic, Siluric, and early Devonic time: Journal of Geology, v. 17, p. 209-252.
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
8380
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