Flannigan Coal Member

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Lithostratigraphy: McLeansboro Group >>Bond Formation >>Flannigan Coal 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 Flannigan Coal Member of the Bond Formation (Newton and Weller, 1937, p. 9).

Derivation

Named for Flannigan Township, Hamilton County.

Other names

History/background

Type section

Type location

The type section is an exposure along a southwest-flowing tributary of the Middle Fork Saline River (SW NE NE 17, 7S-5E; erroneously reported as 6S-5E by Kosanke et al., 1960).

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Stratigraphic relationships

Extent and thickness

In the type area, the Flannigan Coal is about 1 foot thick and is overlain by a thin, black fissile shale. The Flannigan occurs in southeastern and eastern Illinois.

Lithology

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Age and correlation

The Flannigan is correlated with the Flat Creek Coal of southwestern Illinois.

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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.
NEWTON, W. A., and J. M. WELLER, 1937, Stratigraphic studies of Pennsylvanian outcrops in part of southeastern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 45, 31 p.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code Geo Unit Designation
1990
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