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Geologic Unit: Ullin
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Ullin Limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Illinois basin
Publication:

Lineback, J.A., 1966, Deep-water sediments adjacent to the Borden Siltstone (Mississippian) delta in southern Illinois: Illinois Geological Survey Circular, no. 401, 48 p.


Summary:

Name proposed for the light-colored fine- to coarse-grained bryozoan- and crinoid-rich limestone strata that overlie Fort Payne Formation (or the Borden, Springville, Warsaw, or Chouteau Formations where Fort Payne is absent) and underlie Salem Limestone. The Ullin filled elongate depressions between the tongue of the Fort Payne Formation and the Borden delta. Reaches maximum thickness in excess of 800 ft in Hamilton Co., IL, and is less than 500 ft thick in southwestern IN. Pinches out between Warsaw and Salem Formation in western IL. Includes Ramp Creek Member below and Harrodsburg Member above. Age is Mississippian.

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


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

Lineback, J.A., 1972, Lateral gradation of the Salem and St. Louis Limestones (middle Mississippian) in Illinois: Illinois Geological Survey Circular, no. 474, p. 1-21.


Summary:

Unit is stratigraphically reduced. Uppermost 14 ft assigned to Salem Limestone and referred to the Kidd Member.

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


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  • Usage in publication:
    • Ullin Limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
    • Biostratigraphic dating
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Illinois basin
Publication:

Norby, R.D., 1994, Stratigraphic and biostratigraphic framework of the Ullin Limestone ("Warsaw") and Fort Payne Formation, IN Lasemi, Zakaria, and others, Waulsortian mounds and reservoir potential of the Ullin Limestone ("Warsaw") in southern Illinois and adjacent areas in Kentucky: Illinois Geological Survey Guidebook Series, no. 25, p. 26-32.


Summary:

Name Ullin Limestone is this report is equivalent to the "Warsaw" as used by the oil industry and is approximately equivalent to the Warsaw Limestone as used in KY. Most of the natural exposures of the Ullin described by Lineback (1966) have been reinterpreted to be part of the underlying Fort Payne Formation. Though Lineback divided the unit into two members, they are not formally used in this report. The boundary between the two is gradational and they appear to intertongue. Informal upper and lower Ullin used here. Ullin terminology used at Reed quarry (KY) where contact with Fort Payne is drawn approximately 70 ft lower in the section than Warsaw-Fort Payne contact previously drawn. Mound facies now included in lower part of Ullin. Conodont samples confirm an early Meramecian age for the upper part of the Ullin in IL. Lower Ullin is late Osagean.

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


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