Dane Member

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Lithostratigraphy: Ottawa Limestone Megagroup >>Platteville Group >>Pecatonica Formation >>Dane 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 Dane Member of the Pecatonica Formation (Templeton and Willman, 1963, p. 76).

Derivation

Named for Dane County, Wisconsin.

Other names

History/background

Type section

Type location

The type section of the Dane Member is a quarry and roadcut in Dane County, 4 miles north of New Glarus, Green County (SW NW NE 34, 5N-7E), where the member is 8.2 feet thick.

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Type status

Reference section

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Stratigraphic relationships

Extent and thickness

The Dane Member commonly is 5-10 feet thick in the outcrop area, but it is as much as 60 feet in extreme southern Illinois.

Lithology

The Dane Member consists of slightly argillaceous, partly cherty, brown dolomite or limestone in thin to medium beds separated by thin shale partings.

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Well log characteristics

Fossils

The Dane is the most fossiliferous of the Pecatonica members, and it is characterized regionally by the abundance of Opikina minnesotensis.

Age and correlation

Environments of deposition

Economic importance

Remarks

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
8130
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