Woodbury Limestone Member
Lithostratigraphy: McLeansboro Group >>Mattoon Formation >>Woodbury Limestone Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Pennsylvanian Subsystem >>Virgilian Series
Allostratigraphy: Absaroka 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)
M. E. Hopkins and J. A. Simon
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Original description
The Woodbury Limestone Member of the Mattoon Formation (Newton and Weller, 1937, p. 9, 28-30).
Derivation
Named for Woodbury, Cumberland County.
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History/background
Type section
Type location
The type section consists of exposures on a tributary to Webster Branch about 2 miles southwest of Woodbury (S 1/2 SE 32, 9N-8E).
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Extent and thickness
The Woodbury has not been recognized outside the type area.
Lithology
In the type section the Woodbury is a hard, gray, calcareous ironstone layer 3-4 inches thick that contains numerous brachiopods, crinoids, and a few corals. It is separated from an underlying 5-inch coal by a few inches of black coaly shale.
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References
NEWTON, W. A., and J. M. WELLER, 1937, Stratigraphic studies of Pennsylvanian outcrops in part of southeastern Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 45, 31 p.
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