Flat Creek Coal Member

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Lithostratigraphy: McLeansboro Group >>Bond Formation >>Flat Creek 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 Flat Creek Coal Member of the Bond Formation (Simon, in Wanless, 1955, p. 1764).

Derivation

Named for Flat Creek in Bond County.

Other names

History/background

Type section

Type location

The type section is exposed along Flat Creek (NE SE 24, 6N-5W) (Kosanke et al., 1960, p. 39).

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Stratigraphic relationships

The coal is widely overlain by a thin black shale and a marine limestone.

Extent and thickness

The Flat Creek is a thin, widespread coal readily recognized on geophysical logs in southwestern Illinois.

Lithology

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Age and correlation

It is correlated with the Flannigan Coal of southeastern and eastern Illinois and the Fairbanks Coal Member of Indiana.

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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.
WANLESS, H. R., 1955, Pennsylvanian rocks of Eastern Interior Basin: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 39, p. 1753-1820 (see 1962).

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code Geo Unit Designation
1970
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