Solon Member
Lithostratigraphy: Hunton Limestone Megagroup >>Cedar Valley Limestone >>Solon Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Devonian System >>Middle Devonian 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)
Charles Collinson and Elwood Atherton
Name
Original description
The Solon Member of the Cedar Valley Limestone (Norton, 1897, p. 148; Keyes, 1913, p. 205-206).
Derivation
Named for Solon, Johnson County, Iowa.
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History/background
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No type section has been designated for the Solon Member.
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Stratigraphic relationships
The Solon Member of the Cedar Valley Limestone is the basal member where the Hoing Member is not present.
Extent and thickness
In Illinois the Solon Member has a maximum thickness of about 10 feet but is absent locally. It is 6-8 feet thick where exposed in quarries southeast of Milan and on the south side of Rock Island.
Lithology
The Solon Member is a fine- to medium-grained, grayish brown, very fossiliferous limestone with brecciated beds.
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Fossils
The Solon Member is characterized by an abundance of brachiopods, mainly Atrypa independensis, and corals, notably biostromes of Hexagonaria profunda (fig. D-6). Conodonts also are abundant.
Age and correlation
The Solon is correlated with the upper Hamilton in New York (Collinson et al., 1967b).
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References
COLLINSON, CHARLES, M. P. CARLSON, F. H. DORHEIM, and J. W. KOENIG, 1967b, Central Iowa Basin, in International symposium on the Devonian System: Alberta Society of Petroleum Geologists, v. 1, p. 963-971; Illinois State Geological Survey Reprint 1968-G.
KEYES, C. R., 1913, Late Devonic sequence of the Iowa region (synopsis): Iowa Academy of Science Proceedings, v. 20, p. 205-206.
NORTON, W. H., 1897, Artesian wells of Iowa: Iowa Geological Survey, v. 6, p. 113-428.
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