Historical:Sample Sandstone Member
Lithostratigraphy: Pope Megagroup >>West Baden Group >>Paint Creek Group >>Ridenhower Formation >>Sample Sandstone Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Mississippian Subsystem >>Chesterian Series >>Gasperian Stage
Allostratigraphy: Kaskaskia Sequence
Authors
Elwood Atherton, Charles Collinson, and Jerry A. Lineback
Name Origin
The Sample Sandstone Member of the Ridenhower Formation (Butts, 1917, p. 70-73), the middle member, is named for the town of Sample, Breckenridge County, Kentucky.
Type Section
The type section of the Sample Sandstone Member is in a railroad cut on the north bank of Sinking Creek, 1 mile east of Sample.
Description
The Sample Sandstone Member is dominantly sandstone and shale. It occurs locally in southeastern Illinois.
References
BUTTS, CHARLES, 1917, Descriptions and correlations of the Mississippian formations of western Kentucky, Part I of Mississippian formations of western Kentucky: Kentucky Geological Survey, v. 1, 119 p.
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