Usage:
Vandalia Till Member of Glasford Formation (IL,IN,WI)
Subunits:
Fort Russell till facies.
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Pleistocene, middle
Illinoian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Vandalia Bridge section (of Jacobs and Lineback, 1969), along Kaskaskia River, at Vandalia, in NW/4 NE/4 SE/4 sec. 16, T. 6 N., R. 1 E., Fayette Co., IL (Willman and Frye, 1970).
AAPG geologic province:
Illinois basin
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