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  • Usage in publication:
    • Mariah Hill Coal Bed
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Illinois basin
Publication:

Shaver, R.H., Burger, A.M., Gates, G.R., Gray, H.H., Hutchison, H.C., Keller, S.J., Patton, J.B., Rexroad, C.B., Smith, N.M., Wayne, W.J., and Wier, C.E., 1970, Compendium of rock-unit stratigraphy in Indiana: Indiana Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 43, 229 p.


Summary:

Pg. 106. Mariah Hill Coal Bed of Mansfield Formation. Thickness 1 m. Underlies Ferdinand Limestone Member of Mansfield. Age is Early Pennsylvanian.
Type locality: coal bed mined by Mariah Hill Super Block Coal Company, in secs. 19 and 20, T. 4 S., R. 4 W., 2.4 km southeast of Mariah Hill, Spencer Co., south-central IN.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1520, p. 194).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Mariah Hill Coal Member
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Illinois basin
Publication:

Shaver, R.H., Ault, C.H., Burger, A.M., Carr, D.D., Droste, J.B., Eggert, D.L., Gray, H.H., Harper, Denver, Hasenmueller, N.R., Hasenmueller, W.A., Horowitz, A.S., Hutchison, H.C., Keith, B.D., Keller, S.J., Patton, J.B., Rexroad, C.B., and Wier, C.E., 1986, Compendium of rock-unit stratigraphy in Indiana; a revision: Indiana Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 59, 203 p.


Summary:

Pg. 89-90, pls. Mariah Hill Coal Member of Mansfield Formation of Raccoon Creek Group. Moderately bright, slightly pyritiferous, semi-blocky coal, 1.5 to 6.0 feet (0.5 to 1.8 m) thick. Roof is dark-gray, silty, carbonaceous shale, in places calcareous and fossiliferous; encloses shaly to massive, argillaceous, fossiliferous lenticular limestone. Floor is gray carbonaceous underclay or clay shale. Present in Spencer, Dubois, Martin, Daviess, and Perry Counties, south-central Indiana. Age is Early Pennsylvanian (Morrowan). Report includes map of type sections-localities-areas, correlation chart.
Indiana geologists credit name to [Franklin] (1944, Illinois Acad. Sci. Trans., v. 37, p. 87, 89; publication available online from the Illinois Academy of Science: http://www.il-acad-sci.org/).

Source: Publication.


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