Historical:Fults Member

	Handbook of Illinois Stratigraphy
Series	Bulletin 95
Author	H. B. Willman, Elwood Atherton, T. C. Buschbach, Charles Collinson, John C. Frye, M. E. Hopkins, Jerry A. Lineback, Jack A. Simon
Date	1975
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	Handbook of Illinois Stratigraphy
Series	Bulletin 95
Author	H. B. Willman, Elwood Atherton, T. C. Buschbach, Charles Collinson, John C. Frye, M. E. Hopkins, Jerry A. Lineback, Jack A. Simon
Date	1975
Link	Web page
PDF	PDF file
Store	ISGS Store

Lithostratigraphy: Mammoth Cave Limestone Megagroup >>Salem Limestone >>Fults Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Mississippian Subsystem >>Valmeyeran Series
Allostratigraphy: Kaskaskia Sequence

Authors

Elwood Atherton, Charles Collinson, and Jerry A. Lineback

Name Origin

The Fults Member of the Salem Limestone (Baxter, 1960a, p. 22-24) is named for Fults, Monroe County.

Type Section

The type section of the Fults Member is in the bluffs three-fourths of a mile northwest of the town of Fults (SE NE 20, 4S-10W), where the member is 29.4 feet thick.

Extent and Thickness

The Fults Member is 25-34 feet thick in the outcrop area in Monroe and St. Clair Counties.

Description

The Fults Member consists largely of thin- to medium-bedded, fine-grained, silty, cherty, more or less dolomitic limestone, but it contains beds of medium-grained limestone composed of fragmented fossils.

Fossils

Globoendothyra baileyi and Eoendothyranopsis spiroides are common.

References

BAXTER, J. W., 1960a, Salem Limestone in southwestern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 284, 32p.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code	Geo Unit Designation
5210	--