Jamestown Coal Member
Lithostratigraphy: Kewanee Group >>Carbondale Formation >>Jamestown Coal Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Pennsylvanian Subsystem >>Desmoinesian Series
Allostratigraphy: Absaroka Sequence
Primary source
Willman, H. B., Elwood Atherton, T. C. Buschbach, Charles Collinson, John C. Frye, M. E. Hopkins, Jerry A. Lineback, and Jack A. Simon, 1975, Handbook of Illinois Stratigraphy: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 95, 261 p.
Contributing author(s)
M. E. Hopkins and J. A. Simon
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Original description
The Jamestown Coal Member of the Carbondale Formation (Bell et al., 1931, p. 3) is a widespread but thin coal in southern Illinois.
Derivation
Named for Jamestown, Perry County.
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History/background
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Jamestown is near the type locality (NW NE 34, 5S-4W) (Wanless, 1939, p. 17, 19, 88; 1956, p. 10).
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Stratigraphic relationships
Extent and thickness
The coal is seldom more than a few inches thick in southern Illinois (fig. P-3B), but in southern Clark County and adjacent Crawford County in eastern Illinois it is reported in drill records to be as much as 6 feet thick.
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Age and correlation
The Jamestown Coal is equivalent to the Hymera Coal Member (VI), which is an important commercial coal in Indiana, and to the No. 12 coal in western Kentucky.
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References
BELL, A. H., C. G. BALL, and L. C. MCCABE, 1931, Geology of the Pinckneyville and Jamestown areas, Perry County, Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Illinois Petroleum 19, 22 p.
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.
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