Richmondian Stage

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Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Ordovician System >>Cincinnatian Series >>Richmondian 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 Richmondian Stage of the Cincinnatian Series (Winchell and Ulrich, 1897, p. ciii; Twenhofel et al., 1954, chart).

Derivation

Named for Richmond, Indiana.

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Stratigraphic relationships

The Richmondian Stage is the uppermost stage of the Cincinnatian Series. In Illinois the Richmondian Stage includes the uppermost part of the Scales Shale, the Fort Atkinson Limestone, the Brainard Shale, the Neda Formation, and the Girardeau Limestone.

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Age and correlation

The red shales of the Neda suggest correlation with red shales and sandstones in the Queenston and Juniata Formations at the top of the Cincinnatian Series in the Appalachian region.

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References

TWENHOFEL, W. H., et al., 1954, Correlation of the Ordovician formations of North America: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 65, p. 247-298.
WINCHELL, N. H., and E. O. ULRICH, 1897, Lower Silurian deposits of the Upper Mississippi Province: Minnesota Geological Survey, Paleontology, v. 3, part 2, p. Ixxxiii-cxxvii.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code Geo Unit Designation
7380
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