Historical:Mt. Carmel Sandstone Member
Lithostratigraphy: McLeansboro Group >>Mt. Carmel Sandstone Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Pennsylvanian Subsystem >>Missourian Series
Allostratigraphy: Absaroka Sequence
Authors
M. E. Hopkins and J. A. Simon
Name Origin
The Mt. Carmel Sandstone Member of the Bond Formation (Worthen, 1875, p. 52, 55) is named for Mt. Carmel bluff on the Wabash River at Mt. Carmel, Wabash County (W 1/2 21, 1S-12W).
Correlation
The Mt. Carmel Sandstone has been correlated with the McWain Sandstone of southwestern Illinois.
Extent and Thickness
The Mt. Carmel Sandstone is well developed in eastern and southeastern Illinois, where it is the first major channel sandstone above the Shoal Creek Limestone, and it is as much as 80 feet thick in places.
Stratigraphic Position
It occurs about 10 feet below the Flannigan Coal.
References
WORTHEN, A. H., 1875, Geology and paleontology: Geological Survey of Illinois, v. 6, 532 p.
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