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  • Usage in publication:
    • Madisonville limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Illinois basin
Publication:

Norwood, C.J., 1878, A report of examinations made along the paths of the north and south running railways in western Kentucky: Kentucky Geological Survey Report of Progress, new series, no. 4, p. 285-337.


Summary:

Name Madisonville limestone applied to massive fossiliferous limestone, 4 ft thick, exposed at spring at Madisonville. Unit is usually drab and dove-colored, but some parts blue. Overlain by shale and underlain by 1 ft of nodular limestone succeeded below by shales and interbedded nodular and other limestones. Lies about 80 ft above coals A and B. Later report in Kentucky Geological Survey Bulletin 19, p. 13, states that this limestone lies almost midway between coals Nos. 14 and 15 or about 300 ft above coal No. 9. [Heading in Wilmarth (1938, US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896) shows Madisonville assigned to McLeansboro formation, but write-up does not support this allocation.]

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Madisonville limestone* member*
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Illinois basin
Publication:

Harvey, E.J., 1956, Geology and ground-water resources of the Henderson area, Kentucky: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper, 1356, 227 p.


Summary:

Madisonville here reallocated to member status in the Lisman formation. In Henderson area is youngest member of formation and overlies Anvil Rock sandstone member.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Madisonville Limestone Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Illinois basin
Publication:

Hansen, D.E., 1972, Geologic map of the Drakesboro quadrangle, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map, GQ-934, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000 [http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_2234.htm]


Summary:

Age of Lisman Formation and its Providence and Madisonville Limestone Members is Late Pennsylvanian. Anvil Rock Sandstone Member not used in report area.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Madisonville Limestone Member
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Illinois basin
Publication:

Kehn, T.M., 1973, Sturgis Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian), a new map unit in the western Kentucky coal field, IN Contributions to stratigraphy: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1394-B, 24 p.


Summary:

Former members of Lisman Formation (now abandoned) are reassigned to lower part of Sturgis Formation (new). Members are (ascending) Providence Limestone, Anvil Rock Sandstone, Madisonville Limestone, and Carthage Limestone. Sturgis overlies Carbondale Formation.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Madisonville Limestone Member
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Illinois basin
Publication:

Douglass, R.C., 1979, The distribution of fusulinids and their correlation between the Illinois basin and the Appalachian basin, IN Palmer, J.E., and Dutcher, R.R., eds., Depositional and structural history of the Pennsylvanian System of the Illinois basin, Part 2; Invited papers, Ninth International Congress of Carboniferous Stratigraphy and Geology; Field trip 9: Illinois Geological Survey Guidebook Series, Washington, DC, and Urbana, IL, May 26-June 1, 1979, no. 15a, p. 15-20.


Summary:

Age of unit changed to Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian) based on fusulinids.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


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