Plano Silt Member

Lithostratigraphy: Winnebago Formation >>Plano Silt Member
Chronostratigraphy: Cenozoic Erathem >>Quaternary System >>Pleistocene Series

Primary source

Willman, H. B., and John C. Frye, 1970, Pleistocene Stratigraphy of Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 94, 204 p.

Contributing author(s)

H. B. Willman and John C. Frye

Name

Original description

Plano Silt (Kempton and Hackett, 1968b, p. 31).

Derivation

Plano, Kendall County.

Other names

History/background

Type section

Type location

The type section is the Big Rock Creek Section (Kempton and Hackett, 1968b, p. 32), an exposure in the east bank of Big Rock Creek 3.5 miles northeast of Plano, SE NE Sec. 1, T. 37 N., R. 6 E.

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Stratigraphic relationships

The Plano Member is bounded above by its contact with the Capron Till Member and at the base by its contact with the Argyle Till Member. The member is also described in Greenway School cores 2 and 4 (Frye et al., 1969).

Extent and thickness

Spatial relations of the Plano Silt Member are shown diagrammatically in figure 8.

Fig. 8 -- Diagrammatic cross section showing the relations of formations and members of Wisconsinan age in northern and western Illinois.

Lithology

The Plano Silt consists of silt, organic silt, and peat.

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Well log characteristics

Fossils

Age and correlation

Radiocarbon dates determined from the Plano are listed in table 1. The Plano is in the later part of the Altonian Substage of the Wisconsinan Stage.

Table 1 -- Selected Stratigraphically Significant Radiocarbon Dates From Illinois (94 dates from 30 counties).

Environments of deposition

It is the product of slow accumulation of silt, loess, and organic matter during the interval of glacial withdrawal between the deposition of the Argyle and Capron Till Members.

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Remarks

References

FRYE, J. C., H. D. GLASS, J. P. KEMPTON, and H. B. WILLMAN, 1969, Glacial Tills of Northwestern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 437, 47 p.
KEMPTON, J. P., and J. E. HACKETT, 1968b, Stratigraphy of the Woodfordian and Altonian drifts of central northern Illinois, in R.E. Bergstrom, editor, The Quaternary of Illinois—A Symposium in Observance of the Centennial of the University of Illinois College of Agriculture [Urbana] Special Publication 14, p. 27-34.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code	Geo Unit Designation
0690	wi-p