Usage:
Kress Member of St. Peter Sandstone of Ancell Group (IL)
Kress Member of St. Peter Sandstone (IL*,MO*)
Geologic age:
Middle and Late Ordovician (Whiterockian and Mohawkian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 940 to 1,004 ft, Elgin, Joliet and Eastern RR No. 1 (reference well 48) cable tool well, in NW/4 NE/4 SE/4 sec. 32, T. 40 N., R. 9 E., DuPage Co., northern IL. Named from Kress Creek, northwest of West Chicago, DuPage Co., IL. The creek flows southward in secs. 6, 7, and 8, T. 39 N., R. 9 E. The headwaters of the creek are about 1.5 mi southwest of type well (Buschbach, 1964).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin*
Ozark uplift*
Wisconsin arch
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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