Usage:
New Burnside Coal Bed of Tradewater Formation of Raccoon Creek Group (IL-local)
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: in SE/4 SE/4 SW/4 sec. 5, T. 11 S., R. 4 E., [Creal Springs quadrangle], Johnson Co., southeastern IL. Upper of two coals mined in vicinity of village of New Burnside (Kosanke and others, 1960).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin
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