New Burnside Coal Member
Lithostratigraphy: Kewanee Group >>Spoon Formation >>New Burnside 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
Name
Original description
The New Burnside Coal Member of the Spoon Formation (Weller, 1940, p. 42).
Derivation
Named for New Burnside, Johnson County.
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History/background
Type section
Type location
The type locality is near New Burnside (SE SE SW 5, 11S-4E) (Kosanke et al., 1960, p. 32).
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Stratigraphic relationships
It occurs 15-25 feet above the Bidwell Coal.
Extent and thickness
The New Burnside Coal is well developed in scattered localities in southern Illinois and is as much as 5 feet thick where mined; however, in most of the area it is generally thinner.
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Age and correlation
The New Burnside is correlated with the Brush Coal of western Illinois.
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References
KOSANKE, R. M., J. A. SIMON, H. R. WANLESS, and H. B. WILLMAN, 1960, Classification of the Pennsylvanian strata of Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 214, 84 p.
WELLER, J. M., 1940, Geology and oil possibilities of extreme southern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 71, 71 p.
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