Usage:
Sangamon Geosol (IL)
Sangamon soil (informal) (AR,IL,IA,KS,MS,MO,NE,OH,WI)
Sangamon paleosol (informal) (AR,IL,IA,KS,MS,MO,NE,OH,WI)
For informal usage, the rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Pleistocene
Sangamonian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
["Type section"] (subsurface): well in Sangamon Co., IL (Leverett, 1898; Worthen, 1873).
Reference sections: (1) Chapin section, in NW/4 SE/4 NE/4 sec. 8, T. 15 N., R. 11 W., Morgan Co., IL; and (2) Rochester section, in NW/4 SE/4 NW/4 sec. 34, T. 15 N., R. 4 W., eastern Sangamon Co., IL (Willman and Frye, 1970).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
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