Lawson Shale Member

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Lithostratigraphy: Kewanee Group >>Carbondale Formation >>Lawson Shale Member
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Pennsylvanian Subsystem >>Desmoinesian 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

Name

Original description

The Lawson Shale Member of the Carbondale Formation (Kosanke et al., 1960, p. 35).

Derivation

Named for Lawson Creek in Bureau County.

Other names

It previously was called Sheffield Shale (Wanless, 1939, p. 102; 1956, p. 10; 1957, p. 112).

History/background

Type section

Type location

Lawson Creek is about a mile west of the type section (cen. 24, 16N-6E) (Wanless, 1956, p. 10; 1957, p. 112).

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Type status

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Stratigraphic relationships

The upper part of the Lawson is in some places interbedded with sandstone that grades laterally into the Copperas Creek Sandstone. At other places the Copperas Creek lies unconformably on the shale. It is underlain throughout most of western Illinois by the Brereton Limestone or, locally, by either the Anna Shale or Herrin (No. 6) Coal.

Extent and thickness

The Lawson is typically a gray silty shale as much as 25 feet thick in western Illinois. In much of west-central and southwestern Illinois the Lawson is a weak, gray and green mottled shale.

Lithology

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Age and correlation

It probably correlates with a similar shale that underlies the Anvil Rock Sandstone in southern Illinois.

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Remarks

References

KOSANKE, R. M., J. A. SIMON, H. R. WANLESS, and H. B. WILLMAN, 1960, Classification of the Pennsylvanian strata of Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 214, 84 p.
WANLESS, H. R., 1939, Pennsylvanian correlations in the Eastern Interior and Appalachian coal fields: Geological Society of America Special Paper 17, 130 p.
WANLESS, H. R., 1956, Classification of the Pennsylvanian rocks of Illinois as of 1956: Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 217, 14 p.
WANLESS, H. R., 1957, Geology and mineral resources of the Beardstown, Glasford, Havana, and Vermont Quadrangles: Illinois State Geological Survey Bulletin 82, 233 p.

ISGS Codes

Stratigraphic Code Geo Unit Designation
2570
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