Oglesby Member

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Lithostratigraphy: Ottawa Limestone Megagroup >>Platteville Group >>Pecatonica Formation >>Oglesby Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Ordovician System >>Champlainian Series >>Blackriveran Stage
Allostratigraphy: Tippecanoe 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)

H. B. Willman and T. C. Buschbach

Name

Original description

The Oglesby Member of the Pecatonica Formation (Templeton and Willman, 1963, p. 77).

Derivation

Named for Oglesby, La Salle County.

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History/background

Type section

Type location

The type section of the Oglesby Member is in Matthiessen State Park east of Oglesby (NE NE NE 31, 33N-3E), where the member is 12 feet thick.

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Extent and thickness

The Oglesby Member is absent in Illinois north of the type locality, but it is as much as 15 feet thick in southern Illinois.

Lithology

The Oglesby Member is pure, light gray, white, or buff calcarenite that is laminated, rarely conglomeratic, and locally cross bedded. It is medium to coarse grained in the type locality but fine grained elsewhere. A strong iron-stained corrosion surface occurs on the top and is equivalent to a similar surface on the top of the Medusa Member in northern Illinois, where the Oglesby is absent.

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References

TEMPLETON, J. S., and H. B. WILLMAN, 1963, Champlainian Series (Middle Ordovician) in Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 89, 260 p.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code Geo Unit Designation
8100
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