Usage:
/Creal Springs Limestone Member of Tradewater Formation of Raccoon Creek Group (IL-local)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Creal Springs Sandstone by Smith (1957) in same area.]
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: in NE/4 SE/4 SE/4 sec. 25, T. 10 S., R. 3 E., Williamson Co., southeastern IL. Exposed just above top of sandstone quarried east of Creal Springs (Kosanke and others, 1960).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin
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