Coffeen Limestone Member
Lithostratigraphy: McLeansboro Group >>Bond Formation >>Coffeen Limestone Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Pennsylvanian Subsystem >>Missourian Series
Allostratigraphy: Absaroka 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)
M. E. Hopkins and J. A. Simon
Name
Original description
The Coffeen Limestone Member of the Bond Formation (Gluskoter, in Kosanke et al., 1960, p. 39).
Derivation
Named for Coffeen, Montgomery County.
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History/background
Type section
Type location
The type section consists of outcrops along the East Fork of Shoal Creek, about 4.5 miles northeast of Coffeen (NE NW SW 7, 8N-2W).
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Stratigraphic relationships
It occurs about 80 feet below the base of the Millersville Limestone.
Extent and thickness
The Coffeen Limestone is less than 2 feet thick in the type area. It is 8 feet above the Witt Coal in the type area and may be fairly widespread, but it has been recognized only in the northern part of southwestern Illinois.
Lithology
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Well log characteristics
Fossils
The Coffeen contains a varied marine fauna dominated by brachiopods, crinoids, and bryozoans.
Age and correlation
The Coffeen Limestone probably correlates with the Riverview Limestone Member, which lies about 40 feet above the Fairbanks Coal Member of Indiana.
Environments of deposition
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Remarks
References
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.
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