Spar Mountain Sandstone Member
Lithostratigraphy: Mammoth Cave Limestone Megagroup >>Ste. Genevieve Limestone >>Spar Mountain Sandstone 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 Spar Mountain Sandstone Member of the Ste. Genevieve Limestone (Tippie, 1945, p. 1657).
Derivation
Named for Spar Mountain, Hardin County.
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History/background
Type section
Type location
The type section of the Spar Mountain Sandstone Member is located on Spar Mountain, Hardin County where the section is exposed on the south-facing slope (NE 4, 12S-9E).
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Stratigraphic relationships
The Spar Mountain Sandstone Member of the Ste. Genevieve Limestone overlies the Fredonia Limestone Member.
Extent and thickness
In the type section the Spar Mountain is 8-15 feet thick. The Spar Mountain extends throughout most of the area of the Ste. Genevieve (fig. M-22).
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Lithology
In the type locality the Spar Mountain Member consists of light gray to greenish gray, calcareous, glauconitic sandstone or siltstone grading to very sandy limestone. Lenses of similar sandstone and sandy calcarenite occur sporadically at other levels in the Ste. Genevieve, and the Spar Mountain is difficult to differentiate from them in some areas. It is erratic in thickness and has a varied lithology, including beds of dolomite, limestone, sandy limestone, sandstone, and thin shale. In the northern part of its extent, it is as much as 40 feet thick. In the western part of the basin- for example, in western Washington County- the Spar Mountain grades laterally into the Aux Vases Sandstone and is separated from it by vertical cut-off.
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Economic importance
“Spar Mountain” or “Rosiclare” are informal names applied to producing zones in the Spar Mountain Sandstone Member of the Ste. Genevieve Limestone.
Remarks
References
TIPPIE, F. E., 1945, Rosiclare-Fredonia contact in and adjacent to Hardin and Pope Counties, Illinois: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 29, p. 1654-1663; Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 112.
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