Historical:Rapid 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
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Lithostratigraphy: Hunton Limestone Megagroup >>Cedar Valley Limestone >>Rapid Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Devonian System >>Middle Devonian Series
Allostratigraphy: Kaskaskia Sequence

Authors

Charles Collinson and Elwood Atherton

Name Origin

The Rapid Member of the Cedar Valley Limestone (Keyes, 1912, p. 149; 1913, p. 205-206), which overlies the Solon, is named for a locality in Johnson County, Iowa, not specified by Keyes.

Extent and Thickness

The Rapid is the most widespread and thickest member. It is as much as 60 feet thick in the Rock Island area, but it thins to the east and south. It forms the upper 53 feet of the quarry southeast of Milan.

Description

The Rapid Member consists of gray to buff, fine-grained, argillaceous, locally dolomitic limestone. Most of it is thick bedded, but the upper and lower parts are thin bedded and have shaly partings.

Fossils

Some beds, especially near the top and bottom, are very fossiliferous. Brachiopods and corals are most common, particularly Atrypa, Stropheodonta, Chonetes, Spirifer, Schizophoria, Pentamerella, Hexagonaria, Favosites, and Heliophyllum (Edmund and Anderson, 1967) (fig. D-6). Conodonts indicate a late Middle Devonian age (Collinson et al., 1967b).

Fig. D-6 -- Typical Devonian fossils.

References

COLLINSON, CHARLES, M. P. CARLSON, F. H. DORHEIM, and J. W. KOENIG, 1967b, Central Iowa Basin, in International symposium on the Devonian System: Alberta Society of Petroleum Geologists, v. 1, p. 963-971; Illinois State Geological Survey Reprint 1968-G.
EDMUND, R. W., and R. C. ANDERSON, 1967, Mississippi River Arch: 31st Annual Tri-State Field Conference Guidebook, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, 64 p.
KEYES, C. R., 1912, Some provincial and local phases of the general geologic section of Iowa: Iowa Academy of Science Proceedings, v. 19, p. 147-151.
KEYES, C. R., 1913, Late Devonic sequence of the Iowa region (synopsis): Iowa Academy of Science Proceedings, v. 20, p. 205-206.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code	Geo Unit Designation
5950	--