Historical:Browning Sandstone Member
Lithostratigraphy: Kewanee Group >>Spoon Formation >>Browning Sandstone Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Pennsylvanian Subsystem >>Desmoinesian Series
Allostratigraphy: Absaroka Sequence
Authors
M. E. Hopkins and J. A. Simon
Name Origin
The Browning Sandstone Member of the Spoon Formation, the youngest named member (Wanless, 1939, p. 14, 78), is named for Browning Township, Schuyler County.
Type Section
The type locality is located in Browning Township (18, 2N-1E) (Wanless, 1956, p. 10; 1957, p. 86).
Extent and Thickness
The Browning Sandstone has been recognized only in western Illinois (Wanless, 1957), where it occurs in both channel and sheet facies and ranges from less than 3 to as much as 80 feet thick.
Description
In some places the channel facies is almost entirely sandstone that grades upward into shale, but in other places most of it is silty shale and siltstone.
References
WANLESS, H. R., 1939, Pennsylvanian correlations in the Eastern Interior and Appalachian coal fields: Geological Society of America Special Paper 17, 130 p.
WANLESS, H. R., 1956, Classification of the Pennsylvanian rocks of Illinois as of 1956: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 217, 14 p.
WANLESS, H. R., 1957, Geology and mineral resources of the Beardstown, Glasford, Havana, and Vermont Quadrangles: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 82, 233 p.
ISGS Codes
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