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Geologic Unit: Assumption

Usage:

Assumption Coal Member 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: mine in NE/4 NW/4 sec. 2, T. 12 N., R. 1 E., Assumption quadrangle, Christian Co., southwestern IL (Kosanke and others, 1960; coal named by Cady, 1935, Illinois Geol. Survey Bull. 62).


AAPG geologic province:

Illinois basin


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