Montrose Chert Member

From ILSTRAT
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Lithostratigraphy: Mammoth Cave Limestone Megagroup >>Keokuk Limestone >>Montrose Chert Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Mississippian Subsystem >>Valmeyeran Series
Allostratigraphy: Kaskaskia 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)

Elwood Atherton, Charles Collinson, and Jerry A. Lineback

Name

Original description

The Montrose Chert Member of the Keokuk Formation (Keyes, 1895, p. 320).

Derivation

Named for Montrose, Lee County, Iowa.

Other names

History/background

Earlier, these beds had been termed the "Keokuk cherty limestones" (Owen, 1852) or the "cherty beds of passage" separating the Keokuk and Burlington (Hall, 1857).

Type section

Type location

The type section of the Montrose Chert Member consists of 30 feet of very cherty limestone at the base of the Keokuk Limestone where it is exposed along the Mississippi River between Montrose and Keokuk.

Type author(s)

Type status

Reference section

Reference location

Reference author(s)

Reference status

Stratigraphic relationships

Extent and thickness

The Montrose Chert Member is generally about 30 feet thick and consists of gray, medium- to coarse-grained, fossiliferous limestone and light gray dolomite in beds 2-10 inches thick.

Lithology

The Montrose Chert Member contains nodules and beds of blue-gray chert. The chert is dominant in many places and commonly is strongly brecciated (Collinson, 1964).

Core(s)

Photograph(s)

Contacts

Well log characteristics

Fossils

Age and correlation

Environments of deposition

Economic importance

Remarks

References

COLLINSON, CHARLES, 1964, Western Illinois: 28th Annual Tri-State Field Conference, Quincy, Illinois, Illinois State Geological Survey Guidebook Series 6, 30 p.
HALL, JAMES, 1857, Observations upon the Carboniferous limestones of the Mississippi Valley (abstract): American Journal of Science, v. 23, p. 187-203.
KEYES, C. R., 1895, Geology of Lee County: Iowa Geological Survey, v. 3, p. 305-407.
OWEN, D. D., 1852, Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota and incidentally of a portion of Nebraska Territory: Philadelphia, 638 p.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code Geo Unit Designation
5355
--