Shetlerville Limestone Member

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Lithostratigraphy: Pope Megagroup >>Cedar Bluff Limestone Group >>Renault Limestone >>Shetlerville Limestone Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Mississippian Subsystem >>Valmeyeran Series
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 Shetlerville Limestone Member of the Renault Formation (S. Weller, in S. Weller et al., 1920, p. 123; Swann, 1963, p. 82).

Derivation

Named for Shetlerville, Hardin County.

Other names

History/background

Type section

Type location

Weller designated the Shelterville Member a formation, citing exposures of about 30 feet of limestone just east of Shetlerville as the type section. Swann (1963) put the upper shaly part in the Yankeetown, restricted the Shetlerville to 15 feet of limestone exposed in a quarry one-fourth of a mile south of Shetlerville (SE NE SW 35, 12S-7E), and classified it as a member of the Renault.

Type author(s)

Type status

Reference section

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Reference author(s)

Reference status

Stratigraphic relationships

Extent and thickness

Lithology

Most of the limestone is dark greenish or brownish gray, sandy, and oolitic. The basal portion grades to sandstone and is named the Popcorn Sandstone Bed. Some beds are light colored and resemble the underlying Levias Member. The basal contact is sharp and may be unconformable.

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Contacts

Well log characteristics

Fossils

The Shetlerville contains the crinoid Talarocrinus (fig. M-4) and is the basal part of the Chesterian Series.

Age and correlation

Environments of deposition

Economic importance

Remarks

References

SWANN, D. H., 1963, Classification of Genevievian and Chesterian (Late Mississippian) rocks of Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 216, 91 p.
WELLER, STUART, CHARLES BUTTS, L. W. CURRIER, and R. D. SALISBURY, 1920, Geology of Hardin County and the adjoining part of Pope County: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 41 , 402 p.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code Geo Unit Designation
4510
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