Menard Limestone

Menard Limestone
Stratigraphic range: Mississippian
Menard Limestone; Stratigraphic range: Mississippian
Type	Formation
Unit of	Buffalo Wallow Group
Sub-units	Allard Limestone Member, Scottsburg Limestone Member, and Walche Limestone Member
Underlies	Palestine Formation
Overlies	Waltersburg Formation
Area	Illinois Basin
Lithology
Primary	Limestone and shale
Location
Region	Adjacent parts of Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky
Country	United States
Extent	Southern Illinois, southwestern Indiana, and western Kentucky
Type section
Named for	Menard, Randolph Co., Illinois
Named by	Weller (1913)

The Menard Limestone is a geologic formation in the Illinois Basin of southern Illinois, southwestern Indiana, and western Kentucky.^[1]^[3]

The type section of both the Walche Limestone Member and the Scottsburg Limestone Member are exposures in Walche's Cut, a railway cutting on the Illinois Central Railroad.^[4]^[5]^[6]

References[]

^ ^a ^b Stamm, N. 2020b, Geologic Unit: Menard, National Geologic Map Database, Geolex, United States Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia.
^ ^a ^b Weller, Stuart, 1913, Stratigraphy of the Chester group in southwestern Illinois: Illinois Academy of Science Transactions, vol. 6, p. 118-129.
^ Willman, H.B., Atherton, Elwood, Buschbach, T.C., Collinson, Charles, Frye, J.C., Hopkins, M.E., Lineback, J.A., and Simon, J.A., 1975, Handbook of Illinois stratigraphy: Illinois Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 95, 261 p.
^ "Walche Limestone Member". igws.indiana.edu.
^ Swann, David Henry (November 17, 1963). "Classification of Genevievian and Chesterian (late Mississippian) rocks of Illinois" – via www.ideals.illinois.edu. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Droste, J. B., and Keller, S. J., 1995, Subsurface stratigraphy and distribution of oil fields of the Buffalo Wallow Group (Mississippian) in Indiana: Indiana Geological Survey Bulletin 63, 24 p.

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[Stamm2020b-1] Stamm, N. 2020b, Geologic Unit: Menard, National Geologic Map Database, Geolex, United States Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia.

[Weller1913a-2] Weller, Stuart, 1913, Stratigraphy of the Chester group in southwestern Illinois: Illinois Academy of Science Transactions, vol. 6, p. 118-129.

[WillmanOthers1975a-3] Willman, H.B., Atherton, Elwood, Buschbach, T.C., Collinson, Charles, Frye, J.C., Hopkins, M.E., Lineback, J.A., and Simon, J.A., 1975, Handbook of Illinois stratigraphy: Illinois Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 95, 261 p.

[auto-4] "Walche Limestone Member". igws.indiana.edu.

[5] Swann, David Henry (November 17, 1963). "Classification of Genevievian and Chesterian (late Mississippian) rocks of Illinois" – via www.ideals.illinois.edu. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[6] Droste, J. B., and Keller, S. J., 1995, Subsurface stratigraphy and distribution of oil fields of the Buffalo Wallow Group (Mississippian) in Indiana: Indiana Geological Survey Bulletin 63, 24 p.

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