Plaines Member
Lithostratigraphy: Hunton Limestone Megagroup >>Kankakee Formation >>Plaines Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Silurian System >>Alexandrian Series
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 Elwood Atherton
Name
Original description
The Plaines Member of the Kankakee Formation (Willman, 1973, p. 18).
Derivation
Named for Plaines Station, a railroad switching point on the southeast side of the Des Plaines River 1.75 miles southwest of Joliet, Will County.
Other names
History/background
Type section
Type location
The type section of the Plaines Member is at the top of a small quarry, where it overlies the type section of the upper part of the Troutman Member.
Type author(s)
Type status
Reference section
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Reference author(s)
Reference status
Stratigraphic relationships
The Plaines Member is the uppermost member of the Kankakee Formation.
Extent and thickness
The Plaines Member is 2.2 feet thick in the type section but elsewhere is 1.5-3.4 feet thick. It is widely exposed along the Kankakee and Des Plaines Rivers.
Lithology
The dolomite of the Plaines Member is pure, massive, medium grained, and nearly white, and the top is the smooth surface that marks the top of the formation.
Core(s)
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Contacts
Well log characteristics
Fossils
The Microcardinalia Zone is largely in the Plaines Member.
Age and correlation
Environments of deposition
Economic importance
Remarks
References
WILLMAN, H. B., 1973, Rock stratigraphy of the Silurian System in northeastern and northwestern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 479, 55 p.
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