Reelsville Limestone Member
Lithostratigraphy: Pope Megagroup >>West Baden Group >>Paint Creek Group >>Ridenhower Formation >>Reelsville Limestone Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Mississippian Subsystem >>Chesterian Series >>Gasperian Stage
Allostratigraphy: Kaskaskia 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)
Elwood Atherton, Charles Collinson, and Jerry A. Lineback
Name
Original description
The Reelsville Limestone Member of the Ridenhower Formation (Malott, 1919, p. 10-11).
Derivation
Named for Reelsville, Putnam County, Indiana.
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History/background
Type section
Type location
The type section of the Reelsville Limestone Member is on the Eel River, just south of Reelsville, where the member is 2.5 feet thick.
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Stratigraphic relationships
The Reelsville Limestone Member is the uppermost member of the Ridenhower Formation.
Extent and thickness
Lithology
The Reelsville is classified as a formation in Indiana. It is dominantly limestone but contains beds of shale. It is not differentiated in the type section of the Ridenhower Formation, and it has limited distribution in southeastern Illinois, mostly in subsurface. The Agassizocrinus cf. leavis Peak Zone is equivalent to the Reelsville Member.
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Remarks
References
MALOTT, C. A., 1919, "American Bottoms" region of eastern Greene County, Indiana- a type unit in southern Indiana physiography: Indiana University Studies, v. 6, 61 p.
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