Elm Member

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Lithostratigraphy: Ottawa Limestone Megagroup >>Platteville Group >>Plattin Subgroup >>Nachusa Formation >>Elm 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 Elm Member of the Nachusa Formation (Templeton and Willman, 1963, p. 89).

Derivation

Named for Elm Street in Dixon, Lee County, just southwest of the type section.

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History/background

Type section

Type location

The type section of the Elm Member is part of the Nachusa Formation type section (a quarry on the east edge of Dixon (SE SE SW 33, 22N-9E) where it is 2.8 feet thick.

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Stratigraphic relationships

Extent and thickness

The Elm Member is widely present, but it is absent in subsurface in western Illinois. It is 1-4.5 feet thick in the northern outcrop area, is 7 feet thick in Calhoun County and near Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, and it thickens southward to 15 feet at Cape Girardeau.

Lithology

The Elm Member consists of argillaceous, gray, cherty dolomite or limestone and is mainly nonfucoidal. It is thin bedded and has thin shale partings. It commonly weathers to a smooth surface, which distinguishes it from the members above and below that have pitted surfaces.

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Age and correlation

The Elm Member is equivalent to the Glenburnie Member, a similar shaly unit, in the Chaumont Formation in New York.

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
7930
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