Mooseheart Member
Lithostratigraphy: Knox Dolomite Megagroup >>Ironton Sandstone >>Mooseheart Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Cambrian System >>Croixan Series >>Franconian Stage
Allostratigraphy: Sauk 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)
T. C. Buschbach
Name
Original description
The Mooseheart Member of the Ironton Sandstone (Buschbach, 1964, p. 37).
Derivation
Named for a Kane County lake, Mooseheart Lake.
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History/background
Type section
Type location
The type section is located 2 miles northeast of Mooseheart Lake in Kane County and is at a depth of 1092-1120 feet in the same well as the Buelter type section.
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Stratigraphic relationships
The Mooseheart Member is the uppermost member of the Ironton Sandstone.
Extent and thickness
The Mooseheart Member is 20-60 feet thick.
Lithology
The Mooseheart Member consists of poorly sorted, medium- to coarse-grained dolomitic sandstone. Coarse grains of glauconite occur in the upper beds.
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References
BUSCHBACH, T. C., 1964, Cambrian and Ordovician strata of northeastern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 218, 90 p.
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