Pokeberry Limestone Member

Lithostratigraphy: Kewanee Group >>Carbondale Formation >>Pokeberry Limestone 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 Pokeberry Limestone Member of the Carbondale Formation (Wanless, 1939, p. 17, 98).

Derivation

Named for Pokeberry School, Schuyler County.

Other names

History/background

Type section

Type location

Pokeberry School is near the type locality (NW 26, 2N-1W) (Wanless, 1956, p. 11; 1957, p. 113, 188).

Type author(s)

Type status

Reference section

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Reference status

Stratigraphic relationships

Where it is found, it is 15 feet above the Herrin Coal and 9 feet below the Danville (No. 7) Coal.

Extent and thickness

The limestone is known only in the type area.

Lithology

It is a gray, dense, locally conglomeratic or brecciated limestone containing large fossils, most of them brachiopods. It has a very knobby upper surface. The Pokeberry Limestone is not shown on the geologic column (fig. P-2).

Fig. P-2 -- Classification of the Pennsylvanian System. In the graphic column, blank space indicates gray shale. Named members are listed to the right of the graphic column.

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Well log characteristics

Fossils

Age and correlation

It was correlated by Wanless (1957, p. 113) with the Conant Limestone, but its position and correlation are uncertain. It may correlate with the Bankston Fork Limestone.

Environments of deposition

Economic importance

Remarks

References

WANLESS, H. R., 1939, Pennsylvanian correlations in the Eastern Interior and Appalachian coal fields: Geological Society of America Special Paper 17, 130 p.
WANLESS, H. R., 1956, Classification of the Pennsylvanian rocks of Illinois as of 1956: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 217, 14 p.
WANLESS, H. R., 1957, Geology and mineral resources of the Beardstown, Glasford, Havana, and Vermont Quadrangles: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 82, 233 p.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code	Geo Unit Designation
2590	--