Toulon Member

Lithostratigraphy: Glasford Formation >>Toulon Member
Chronostratigraphy: Cenozoic Erathem >>Quaternary System >>Pleistocene Series

Primary source

Willman, H. B., and John C. Frye, 1970, Pleistocene Stratigraphy of Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 94, 204 p.

Contributing author(s)

H. B. Willman and John C. Frye

Name

Original description

Toulon Member, Glasford Formation (Willman and Frye 1970).

Derivation

The Toulon Member of the Glasford Formation is named for Toulon, Stark County.

Type section

Type location

The type section is from exposures in a borrow pit three quarters of a mile west of Toulon, NW NW SW Sec. 24, T. 13 N., R. 5 E., described in the Toulon Section (table 6).

Table 6 -- Stratigraphic Sections (partial) The following 21 stratigraphic sections describe exposures in Illinois and illustrate many of the aspects of Pleistocene stratigraphy. These sections contain the type localities for 21 rock-stratigraphic units, 4 soil-stratigraphic units, and 3 time-stratigraphic units and include paratypes for several other units. The sample numbers preceded by "P" are the numbers used in the Illinois State Geological Survey collections. Analytical data on many of these samples are on file at the Survey. The sections are arrange alphabetically by name.

Tindall School Section (cont.) and Toulon Section Toulon Section (cont.), Washington Grove Section, and Wedron Section

Stratigraphic relationships

It is bounded above by the base of the Radnor Till Member and below by the top of the underlying Hulick Till Member; it can be identified as a member only when it occurs between these two till members. The uppermost silt may be a stratigraphic equivalent of the Roby Silt of east-central Illinois, but this has not as yet been confirmed.

Extent and thickness

It is 5 to 10 feet thick, but, as it has not been widely recognized, it probably is much thicker in some areas.

Lithology

It consists of glacially derived sand, gravel, and silt. In the Jubilee College Section (table 6) the member consists of calcareous, gray silt and fine sand at the top, overlying a weakly developed unnamed soil in the top of sand and gravel outwash, which in turn unconformably overlies the Hulick Till. Compositional data for the Toulon Member are given in table 5.

Table 5 -- Selected Analyses from Stratigraphic Sections Described in Table 6 (X-ray analyses by H. D. Glass, Illinois State Geological Survey). Table 5 -- Continued.

Table 6 -- Stratigraphic Sections (partial) The following 21 stratigraphic sections describe exposures in Illinois and illustrate many of the aspects of Pleistocene stratigraphy. These sections contain the type localities for 21 rock-stratigraphic units, 4 soil-stratigraphic units, and 3 time-stratigraphic units and include paratypes for several other units. The sample numbers preceded by "P" are the numbers used in the Illinois State Geological Survey collections. Analytical data on many of these samples are on file at the Survey. The sections are arrange alphabetically by name.

Flat Rock Section (cont.), Gale Section, and Jubilee College Section Jubilee College Section (cont.), Lewistown Section, and Malden South Section

Age and correlation

As the minor soil in the upper part of the member is the boundary of two substages, the bulk of the lower part of the member is in the Monican Substage, but the upper silts are in the Jubileean Substage of the Illinoian Stage. The lower, outwash part of the member is judged to be retreatal outwash, whereas the local silts at the top are pro-glacial deposits in front of the advancing glacier that deposited the overlying Radnor Till Member.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code	Geo Unit Designation
0850	--