Stratigraphic and structural framework along the 11:30 o'clock cross section in the Illinois Basin : Wayne County, Illinois, to Stephenson County, Illinois

Stratigraphic and Structural Framework
along the 1 1 :30 O'Clock Cross Section
in the Illinois Basin: Wayne County,
Illinois, to Stephenson County, Illinois

Janis D. Treworgy, Stephen T. Whitaker, and Zakaria Lasemi

Open File Series 1 994-6

ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Jonathan H. Goodwin, Acting Chief

Natural Resources Building
615 East Peabody Drive
Champaign, IL 61820-6964

FS 1994-6

Stratigraphic and Structural Framework
along the 1 1 :30 O'clock Cross Section
in the Illinois Basin: Wayne County,
inois, to Stephenson County, Illinois

Janis D. Treworgy, Stephen T. Whitaker, and Zakaria Lasemi

Open File Series 1994-6

ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Jonathan H. Goodwin, Acting Chief

Natural Resources Building
615 East Peabody Drive
Champaign, IL 61820-6964

Cross sections available in the series
Vertical scale is 1 inch = 400 feet; horizontal scale is 1:250,000 (1 inch = about 4 miles)

11:30 O'Clock Cross Section in the Illinois Basin, Wayne County, Illinois, to Stephenson County,
Illinois [cross section]; Stratigraphic and Structural Framework Along the 1 1:30 O'Clock Cross
Section [text], by Janis D. Treworgy, Stephen T. Whitaker, and Zakaria Lasemi, ISGS Open File
Series 1994-6.

3 O'Clock Cross Section in the Illinois Basin, Wayne County, Illinois to Switzerland County,
Indiana, by Janis D. Treworgy and Stephen T. Whitaker, ISGS Open File Series 1990-3.

9 O'Clock Cross Section in the Illinois Basin, Wayne County, Illinois, to St. Clair County, Illinois, by
Stephen T. Whitaker and Janis D. Treworgy, ISGS Open File Series 1990-4.

1 O'Clock Cross Section in the Illinois Basin, Wayne County, Illinois, to Lake County, Indiana, by
Janis D. Treworgy and Stephen T. Whitaker, ISGS Open File Series 1990-5.

6 O'Clock Cross Section in the Illinois Basin, Wayne County, Illinois, to Gibson County, Tennes-
see, by Stephen T. Whitaker, Janis D. Treworgy, and Martin C. Noger, ISGS Open File Series
1990-6.

Southwest-Northeast Cross Section in the Illinois Basin, Southeastern Flank of the Ozark Dome,
Missouri, to Southern Illinois, by Janis D. Treworgy, Stephen T. Whitaker, and Michael L. Sargent,
ISGS Open File Series 1992-2.

Northwest-Southeast Cross Section in the Illinois Basin, Sparta Shelf, Southern Illinois, to Rough
Creek Graben, Western Kentucky, by Stephen T. Whitaker, Janis D. Treworgy, Michael L.
Sargent, and Martin C. Noger, ISGS Open File Series 1992-3.

West-East Cross Section in the Illinois Basin, Ozark Dome, Missouri, to Rough Creek Graben,
Western Kentucky, by Michael L. Sargent, Janis D. Treworgy, and Stephen T. Whitaker, ISGS
Open File Series 1992-4.

INTRODUCTION 1

Geologic History of the Illinois Basin 1

STRATIGRAPHY 1

Precambrian 1

Sauk Sequence 1

Tippecanoe Sequence 3

Kaskaskia Sequence 5

Absaroka Sequence 7

STRUCTURE 8

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 9

REFERENCES 10

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INTRODUCTION

This report accompanies the 1 1:30 O'clock Cross Section in the Illinois Basin, one of a network of
regional cross sections that portray the structural and stratigraphic framework of the Illinois Basin.
Most of the cross sections radiate from the UNOCAL no. 1 Cisne drill hole in Wayne County, Illi-
nois, the approximate geographic center of the basin. These structural cross sections, which in-
clude wireline logs of deep tests, traverse significant geological features in Illinois, Indiana, and
Kentucky, and portray the entire Phanerozoic section.

The line of the 1 1:30 O'Clock Cross Section in the Illinois Basin extends from the center of the
Illinois Basin in south-central Illinois to the southern end of the Wisconsin Arch at the Wisconsin
border in northwesternmost Illinois. The cross section is generally perpendicular to the deposi-
tional slope of the basin and portrays major facies relationships along that trend. Only unconformi-
ties at the sequence boundaries, as defined by Sloss (1963), are indicated on the cross section.
Additional detailed descriptions of the lithologies and facies relationships can be found in Willman
et al. (1975) and Leighton et al. (1991). The principal drill holes shown on the cross section are
referred to in the text by farm name and reference letter; infill drill holes are numbered consecu-
tively from south to north.

Geologic History of the Illinois Basin

The origin and evolution of the Illinois Basin is linked to an aulacogen that formed during breakup
of a supercontinent during the late Proterozoic through the Middle Cambrian (Kolata and Nelson
1991a). This aulacogen, known as the Reelfoot Rift/Rough Creek Graben, is situated in the south-
ern part of the present Illinois Basin, south of the line of cross section. By Late Cambrian time, the
proto-lllinois Basin was a broad cratonic embayment that was open to the south. During the
Paleozoic, tectonic subsidence was more rapid over the aulacogen in the southern part of the
basin. This subsidence produced a thicker and more complete sedimentary record in the southern
part of the basin. It was not until the end of the Paleozoic or early Mesozoic, during uplift of the
Pascola Arch, that the southern end of the basin was structurally closed, producing the present
configuration. During much of the Paleozoic, the basin was part of a widespread cratonic seaway
that flooded the basin-bounding arches as well.

STRATIGRAPHY
Precambrian

Precambrian rocks in Illinois are dominantly granitic and rhyolitic (Bradbury and Atherton 1965)
and have been radiometrically dated at 1420 to 1500 Ma (Bickford et al. 1986). The four wells that
penetrated basement in the cross section, the Cisne (A), Goodwin (G), Mathesius (I), and UPH-3
(L) drill holes, encountered red granite. Local relief at the top of Precambrian crystalline rocks is
known to be more than 1,000 feet (M.L. Sargent, Illinois State Geological Survey, personal com-
munication 1993). Precambrian knoblike features have been illustrated on several other cross
sections in this series, including those for the 9 o'clock (Whitaker and Treworgy 1990), 3 o'clock
(Treworgy and Whitaker 1990a), and 6 o'clock (Whitaker et al. 1992) positions, but none are evi-
dent on this cross section.

Sauk Sequence

Mt. Simon Sandstone (Upper Cambrian) A major rise in eustatic sea level flooded all but the
highest hills on the Precambrian erosional surface and led to deposition of the basal Late Cam-
brian Mt. Simon Sandstone throughout the basin. The Mt. Simon is a fine to coarse grained, white
to pink, subarkose to quartz arenite. It thickens northward from about 350 feet in the Cisne (A) drill
hole in Wayne County, at the south end of the cross section, to more than 2,000 feet in La Salle
County (in the Goodwin [G] and Mathesius [I] drill holes), which is just west of its point of maxi-
mum thickness in the basin. From La Salle County, the sandstone thins northward to about
900 feet in the UPH-3 (L) drill hole in Stephenson County at the north end of the cross section.

Distribution of the Mt. Simon is atypical for the Illinois Basin because it is thickest in northern Illi-
nois, whereas most other Paleozoic units thicken southward.

Eau Claire Formation (Upper Cambrian) Relative sea level remained high through the re-
mainder of the Cambrian and into the Ordovician, in part because of a relatively rapid rate of tec-
tonic subsidence of the basin (Treworgy et al. 1991, Kolata and Nelson 1991b). Regionally, the
Eau Claire Formation represents a transition from siliciclastic deposition of the Mt. Simon to car-
bonate deposition. The Eau Claire, as defined in Wisconsin and used in northern Illinois, is a fine
to medium grained, gray, dolomitic sandstone interbedded with shaley siltstone and silty, sandy,
glauconitic dolomite (Buschbach 1975). Carbonates become increasingly prominent in the Eau
Claire southward (Harrison [D] and Cisne [A] drill holes) into the Illinois Basin (Buschbach 1975).
The unit is laterally equivalent to the Bonneterre Formation in southeastern Missouri. The lower
part of the Eau Claire in the southern part of the basin is mixed siliciclastics and carbonates (Har-
rison [D] and Cisne [A] drill holes). In Indiana and Kentucky, this lower siliciclastic carbonate unit
constitutes the entire Eau Claire (Droste and Patton 1985). The upper, carbonate-rich portion of
the Illinois Eau Claire is included in the lower part of the Knox Group.

The Eau Claire carbonates are separated from overlying carbonates of the Knox Group by the
Davis; this shaley carbonate member of the Franconia Formation in southern Illinois is present
from the Cisne (A) drill hole to the Peru (H) drill hole in La Salle County. The Davis loses its silici-
clastic component eastward beyond south-central Illinois. Loss of this shaley unit makes it difficult
to pick the top of the Eau Claire.

Ironton and Galesville Sandstones (Upper Cambrian) Overlying the Eau Claire in northern
Illinois are the Ironton and Galesville Sandstones. The Galesville is a white, generally pure, fine
grained, friable, nondolomitic quartz arenite. The overlying Ironton is similar, but it is coarser
grained and somewhat dolomitic in places. The contact between the two is gradational and has
not been drawn on the cross section. These sandstones, derived from a source north of Illinois,
thin distally southward. Just south of the Harrison (D) drill hole in Moultrie County, these sand-
stones grade into carbonates that are assigned to the Eau Claire Formation.

Franconia Formation, Potosi Dolomite, and Eminence Formation (Upper Cambrian) The

Franconia Formation is a dominantly siliciclastic unit consisting of glauconitic, silty, argillaceous,
fine grained, dolomitic sandstone in northernmost Illinois and Wisconsin. The lower part of the
Franconia becomes increasingly shaley southward, where it is called the Davis Member. The
upper part grades to a silty, sandy dolomite southward into the basin (Goodwin [G] drill hole).
In southern and central Illinois, the Franconia is included in the carbonate Knox Group.

The Potosi and Eminence, also parts of the Knox Group, are predominantly carbonate rocks
throughout the state, except for the northwestern tip of Illinois where the Jordan Sandstone is in
facies relationship with the Eminence (UPH-3 [L] drill hole). In the southern part of the basin, the
dolomites of the lower Knox Group generally cannot be differentiated in samples or on wireline
logs (Cisne [A] drill hole). In the northern part of the basin, however, the pure carbonates of the
Potosi and the somewhat sandy carbonates of the Eminence are clearly distinguishable in drill
cuttings, cores, and outcrops.

Oneota Dolomite, New Richmond Sandstone, and Shakopee Dolomite (Lower Ordovician)

The Oneota and Shakopee Dolomites, which form the upper part of the Knox Group, underlie all
of Illinois, except for the northernmost portions of the state where they were eroded before deposi-
tion of the St. Peter Sandstone. Toward the south along the cross section, these units thicken
substantially, reflecting the increased rate of subsidence southward.

Separating the Oneota and Shakopee in northern and west-central Illinois is the New Richmond
Sandstone (northward from around the Ryan [E] drill hole), which represents an influx of silici-
clastic sediments into the basin from the north. These siliciclastics thicken, then thin and dis-
appear southward with increasing distance from the source area.

The Oneota typically is a coarse grained, light gray dolomite throughout the state, distinguishable
in samples from the slightly sandy Eminence Dolomite below and the argillaceous, sandy and
shaley Shakopee Dolomite above. On wireline logs, the Oneota is not easily distinguishable from
the underlying Eminence Dolomite (Cisne [A] drill hole). Its purity, however, lithologically distin-
guishes it from the overlying shaley Shakopee Dolomite and produces lower gamma-ray and
spontaneous-potential log signatures than the Shakopee (best seen in the Cisne [A], Thompson-
Wetherell [C], and Harrison [D] drill holes).

Toward the end of deposition of the Lower Ordovician Shakopee carbonates, a widespread drop
in sea level apparently led to subaerial exposure and erosion of the basin margins while deposi-
tion continued in the southernmost part of the basin (Shaw and Schreiber 1991). This exposure
altered by karstification some of the upper portions of the Shakopee and locally enhanced its
porosity, as can be seen in several drill holes elsewhere in the state. The resulting unconformity,
and its correlative surface at the top of the Knox Group, defines the boundary between the Sauk
Sequence and the overlying Tippecanoe Sequence.

Tippecanoe Sequence

Everton Dolomite, St. Peter Sandstone, Dutchtown Formation, and Joachim Dolomite
(Middle and Upper Ordovician) Overlying the sub-Tippecanoe unconformity is the lower part
of the Tippecanoe I Sequence — a basal transgressive sequence containing mixed carbonate and
siliciclastic facies that make up the Everton Dolomite and the St. Peter, Dutchtown, and Joachim
Formations of the Ancell Group. The dominantly carbonate units, the Everton, Dutchtown, and
Joachim, are mostly present in the southern part of the basin (south of the Ryan [E] and
Thompson-Wetherell [C] drill holes). This depocenter was situated over the Reeifoot Rift where
tectonic subsidence was most rapid (Treworgy et al. 1991 , Kolata and Nelson 1991b).

Dolomite in the Everton represents a transition from sabkha and restricted marine conditions that
occurred during deposition of its low part, to peritidal and subtidal marine conditions that existed
by the time of upper Everton deposition (Shaw and Schreiber 1991). To the north in Illinois, an
irregular karstic surface developed on the exposed Sauk carbonates. During deposition of the
upper part of the Everton, siliciclastic input gradually increased as exposed Cambrian siliciclastics
on the Canadian Shield and Wisconsin Arch were reworked and transported into the basin.

The St. Peter Sandstone is present throughout most of the Illinois portion of the basin, except
where it is eroded along part of the La Salle Anticlinorium (Mathesius [I] drill hole) and Sandwich
Fault Zone in northern Illinois (Willman and Buschbach 1975, p. 62). The St. Peter is a pure,
mature quartz arenite with well rounded, frosted grains. Derived primarily from older Ordovician
and Cambrian sandstones exposed to the north (Dott et al. 1986), the St. Peter in Illinois repre-
sents a relatively rapid marine transgression over the post-Sauk erosional surface and consists of
reworked shoreline and offshore bar sands (Shaw and Schreiber 1991). The St. Peter varies
greatly in thickness due to the irregularity of the erosional surface it overlies.

At the north end of this cross section (north of the Keckler [K] drill hole) is a particularly intriguing
area. Here the St. Peter is more than 300 feet thick and rests on the Cambrian Eminence Forma-
tion where all the Lower Ordovician rocks had been eroded. This area of thick St. Peter extends
from west to east across most of northern Illinois in a band about 15 to 25 miles wide (Willman
and Buschbach 1975, p. 62). Although extensive dissolution of underlying carbonate rocks
through underground channels may have caused this broad valleylike feature, it is more likely that
a system of deep stream valleys cut into the Sauk carbonates (Buschbach 1961).

A decrease in the supply of siliciclastics, possibly due to a relative rise in sea level, led to depo-
sition of subtidal to peritidal carbonates, represented by the Dutchtown and overlying Joachim in
the southern part of the basin. The Dutchtown, in part a relatively organic-rich, dark gray, argilla-
ceous limestone and dolomite that emits a fetid odor when broken, is restricted to the southern
part of the basin (south of the Thompson-Wetherell [C] drill hole). The Joachim has a varied lithol-
ogy, but is dominantly light gray, argillaceous, silty or sandy dolomite with beds of limestone and
sandstone and some anhydrite layers. The Dutchtown (south of the Thompson-Wetherell [C] drill
hole) and the overlying Joachim, which extends as far as north-central Illinois (south of the Ryan
[E] drill hole), are interpreted to be in facies relationship with the upper part of the St. Peter. A dis-
conformity marks the top of the Joachim and St. Peter (Shaw and Schreiber 1991).

Platteville (Black River), Galena (Trenton), and Maquoketa Groups (Upper Ordovician)

The upper part of the Tippecanoe I Sequence consists of the carbonates of the Platteville and
Galena Groups and the siliciclastics and carbonates of the Maquoketa Group. The Platteville and
Galena were deposited during widespread inundation of the craton, a time of high carbonate pro-
duction, relatively stable sea level, and slow rate of tectonic subsidence in the basin (Treworgy et
al. 1991, Kolata and Nelson 1991b). These carbonates are mostly dolomitic in northern Illinois,
where they were subjected to diagenetic alteration, whereas south of McLean County, they are
dominantly limestone.

The Platteville (Black River) is a blanket carbonate unit of slightly argillaceous lime mudstone and
wackestone (Kolata and Noger 1991) that thickens southward in the Illinois Basin. In the northern
part of Illinois, fossil content indicates deposition in peritidal to subtidal open-marine environ-
ments, whereas in the southern part of the basin, sedimentary features indicate deposition in
tidal flats and shallow lagoons.

In the northern part of the basin, the Galena (Trenton) consists of lime mudstone and wackestone
and reflects deposition in quiet water on a stable shelf below wave base (Kolata and Noger 1991).
In the southern part of the basin, however, the Galena, or Kimmswick Limestone of Missouri
(Thompson 1991), consists largely of massive beds of broken and abraded crinoidal-bryozoan
grainstone, indicating deposition in highly agitated water. Unlike most other Paleozoic units, the
Galena thins southward, suggesting a reduction in the rate of tectonic subsidence at the southern
end of the basin during that time.

The upper part of the Galena is the lowest stratigraphic unit that has produced commercial hydro-
carbons in Illinois. The top of the Galena is marked by a prominent hardground that represents a
depositional hiatus, during which relative sea level rose significantly.

Deposition resumed as fine siliciclastics were transported into the basin from the Taconic Orogen,
which lay along the eastern margin of North America. Sea floor conditions were periodically
anoxic, enabling local preservation of organic material in the black to gray shale of the Maquoketa
Group. Throughout most of Illinois, the Maquoketa consists of three units: a lower shale, an over-
lying more calcareous unit, and another overlying shale. These shales have apparently generated
hydrocarbons (Hatch et al. 1991) and are the source for at least some of the oil found in Galena
and Silurian reservoirs in the basin. A drop in relative sea level at the end of the Ordovician ex-
posed the Maquoketa to erosion along the flanks of the basin prior to deposition of Silurian strata.
Relief of up to 150 feet is present on this erosional surface in northern Illinois (Kolata and Graese
1983). In western Illinois, erosional valleys in the top of the Maquoketa are present but subtle. In
the deeper part of the basin, the top of the Maquoketa may be conformable with the overlying
Silurian rocks.

Silurian System and Lower Devonian Series Silurian and Lower Devonian rocks are domi-
nantly carbonates that constitute the Tippecanoe II Sequence. These strata become progressively
more dolomitic northward from the deeper part of the basin. During much of the Silurian and Early

Devonian, gradual basin subsidence continued and allowed deposition of a thick section of car-
bonates that became progressively more argillaceous and cherty upward. Presence of deeper
water facies in Late Silurian and Early Devonian rocks indicates that the rate of tectonic subsi-
dence may have increased during this time.

In western Illinois, basal Silurian carbonates, which filled subtle valleys that were eroded in the top
of the Maquokets were dolomitized and formed hydrocarbon reservoirs (Crockett et al. 1988).
These reservoirs re re stricted to the paleovalleys on the Maquoketa surface and may be more
extensive than presently documented.

Reefs began to form in the upper part of the St. Clair Formation (Lower Silurian) and continued
during deposition of the Moccasin Springs and Bailey Formations. Isolated pinnacle reefs devel-
oped in a shallow carbonate ramp environment (Whitaker 1988) and may be up to 1 ,000 feet thick
near the center of the basin. Many of these Silurian reefs formed important hydrocarbon reser-
voirs (Ryan [E] drill hole). Pure reef and carbonate bank facies grade laterally into cherty, argilla-
ceous, finely crystalline carbonates interbedded with thin shale. Dolomitic carbonate banks and
patch reefs, which occur in the subsurface between the cities of Springfield (Sangamon County)
and Decatur (Macon County), formed along the flanks of the Sangamon Arch, which was a subtle,
east-northeast trending positive feature during this time. The cross section intersects the east end
of the arch from the Harrison (D) to north of the Taylor (F) drill holes.

The Bailey Limestone, thought to be Late Silurian to Early Devonian in age (R.D. Norby, Illinois
State Geological Survey, personal communication 1993), is dominantly a silty, argillaceous,
cherty, thin bedded lime mudstone characteristic of deposition in a low energy, relatively deep
water environment. The unit is present only in the deeper parts of the basin where pre-Middle
Devonian erosion did not remove it. Facies relations indicate that a rise in relative sea level
probably began during deposition of the Bailey (possibly due to a slight increase in the rate of
subsidence) and eventually drowned the reefs (Banaee 1981). Relati i sea level apparently
continued to rise during the Early Devonian.

The Lower Devonian strata, like the underlying Bailey, are present only in the part of the basin
south of the Thompson-Wetherell (C) drill hole, having been removed from the area to the north
by pre-Middle Devonian erosion. These strata differ lithologically from the Bailey in that they gen-
erally contain more beds of chert. The lowest unit, the Grassy Knob Chert, is generally nonfossil-
iferous; on the outcrop, it is composed of bedded, vesicular to novaculitic chert, and in the subsur-
face it is composed of interbedded chert and dolomite (Rogers 1972). Overlying the Grassy Knob
is the Backbone Limestone, which is a discontinuous, light gray, crinoidal grainstone. The Back-
bone rims the deeper part of the basin and thins or disappears basinward (Collinson and Atherton
1975). The Clear Creek Chert, at the top of the Lower Devonian succession, consists of moc
ately fossilifprous, slightly argillaceous and silty, light colored, siliceous lime mudstone and abun-
dant interbeoded layers of chert.

The end of the Early Devonian was marked by a widespread drop in sea level that exposed th«=
margins of the basin to erosion, while deposition appears to have continued in the south-cer
part of the basin Norby 1991). The resulting erosional unco: .rmity or its correlative surface
marks the Tippecanoe-Kaskaskia Sequence boundary. The strata immediately below this un n-
formity were dolomitized, which locally enhanced porosity and formed isolated hydrocarbon-
bearing reservoirs.

Kaskaskia Sequence

Middle and Upper Devonian Series Middle Devonian transgressive carbonates deposited on
the sub-Kaskaskia erosional surface progressively overlap older rocks northward as shown
between the Cisne (A) and Thompson-Wetherell (C) drill holes. Middle Devonian strata consist of
dolomite, fossiliferous limestone, and, locally, sandstone; these facies indicate relatively shallow

marine conditions. Hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs have been located in the sandstone and dolo-
mite beds.

New Albany Group (Upper Devonian-Kinderhookian) As relative sea level continued to rise
and a relatively deep basin evolved in the Illinois Basin in Late Devonian time (Cluff et al. 1981),
black, gray, and green shales of the Upper Devonian and Kinderhookian (early Mississippian)
New Albany Group were deposited in the southern two-thirds of the basin. The relatively deep
water conditions and the influx of the siliciclastics of the New Albany halted carbonate production.
A small increase in the rate of tectonic subsidence — and, therefore, an increase in accommoda-
tion space — is shown by backstripping methods to have occurred during deposition of the mid-
Mississippian Valmeyeran Series (Treworgy et al. 1991, Kolata and Nelson 1991b). This in-
creased rate of tectonic subsidence may actually have occurred as early as late Middle Devonian
or Late Devonian, but backstripping did not indicate this subsidence because of the thin Upper
Devonian sedimentary record. This increased subsidence rate could account for the Late Devo-
nian deepened basin during New Albany deposition.

The shales of the New Albany achieve a maximum thickness of about 400 feet in the extreme
southern part of the basin. Organic carbon content is high (median value of 3.7%; range of 0.2%
to 9.3%) in some of the shale beds, and the unit is the main source of hydrocarbons in the basin
(Hatch et al. 1991). Fractures in the shales have produced some natural gas in western Kentucky
and southern Indiana (Seylerand Cluff 1991, p. 363, Hasenmuellerand Comer 1994). The upper
part of the New Albany is Kinderhookian (Mississippian) in age.

Mississippian System During early Valmeyeran time, following deposition of the New Albany
and the thin Chouteau Limestone, the lower part of the Burlington-Keokuk Limestone bank devel-
oped in western Illinois and westward as far as Kansas (Lane 1978). The northeast extent of the
bank is present between the Harrison (D) and Taylor (F) drill holes. At this time, minimal sedimen-
tation occurred in the Illinois Basin east of the bank. Subsequently, influx of siliciclastics formed a
submarine fan, the Borden Siltstone, that entered the basin from the east-northeast. The sub-
marine fan was confined on the west by the Burlington-Keokuk Limestone bank (Lineback 1966),
which continued to develop during early Borden deposition. With continued rise of relative sea
level, the Borden siliciclastics overtopped the Burlington-Keokuk Limestone bank; these are called
the Warsaw Shale (shown between the Harrison [D] and Taylor [F] drill holes). As the supply of
siliciclastic sediment waned, carbonate deposition resumed in the basin, forming the Fort Payne
and Ullin Formations. These units, partially in facies relationship with one another (Lineback and
Cluff 1985, Lasemi et al. 1994), bound the siliciclastic Borden fan on the south and east, as shown
between the Cisne (A) and Thompson-Wetherell (C) drill holes. Lasemi (1994) interpreted the
Ullin to include coalesced Waulsortian-type mud mounds in its lower part and bryozoan patch
reefs and storm generated sandwaves in its upper part. The mound facies is equivalent in part to
the siliceous, dark brown Fort Payne carbonates, a relatively deep water facies that is a potential
source for hydrocarbons. The coarser grained and lighter colored packstones and grainstones of
the mound-flanking facies and of the overlying sandwave and bryozoan patch reef facies in the
upper part of the Ullin are potential reservoir rocks (Lasemi 1994), a few of which are presently
producing hydrocarbons in the basin (e.g., in Franklin, Hamilton, Wayne, and White Counties,
Illinois). The age relationships of these units are currently being worked out on the basis of cono-
dont biostratigraphy.

Overlying the Ullin are fairly thick shallow water carbonates of the Salem, St. Louis, and Ste.
Genevieve Limestones. The Salem and Ste. Genevieve are significant hydrocarbon-producing
units in the basin. Gradational with the Ullin, the Salem marks a transition to deposition within
wave base (Cluff and Lineback 1981, Lasemi et al. 1994). The Salem's base is characterized by
the first appearance of fine grained, argillaceous, cherty, partly dolomitic, skeletal wackestone to
carbonate mudstone. In general, the Salem has oolitic zones, better sorting and rounding of com-
ponents, and a greater diversity of fossils than does the Ullin.

The overlying St. Louis Limestone is generally gradational with the Salem, as shown between the
Sutton (B) and Thompson-Wetherell (C) drill holes. Here, well cuttings indicate that the Salem and
St. Louis interfinger. The St. Louis is predominantly cherty lime mudstone that is interlayered with
skeletal wackestone and packstone, microsucrosic dolomite, and anhydrite (Cluff and Lineback
1981). The unit represents a shallowing upward from the more-open marine environments of
Salem deposition to highly restricted shallow subtidal and intertidal environments s indicated by
abundant exposure features and evaporites around the margins of the basin.

The transition from the St. Louis Limestone to the overlying Ste. Genevieve, a predominantly high-
energy, oolitic, skeletal grainstone, was probably due to a slight rise in relative sea level (Cluff and
Lineback 1981). The Ste. Genevieve lithology is variable and also includes thin beds of skeletal,
pelletal wackestone, lime mudstone, and sucrosic dolomite. Oolitic grainstone beds in the Ste.
Genevieve, kr c wn as the "McClosky sands" in the oil industry, are the major pay zone in many oil
fields in the b n.

The Valmeyeran carbonates are difficult to differentiate on wireline logs (note the Thompson-
Wetherell [C] drill hole), and gradational contacts make correlations somewhat difficult in cuttings
and cores as well. Subtle changes on the logs, though, can be traced. For example, the lower
gamma-ray log response for the Ullin indicates that it is a purer carbonate than the overlying
Salem, and both the gamma-ray and spontaneous-potential logs indicate shallowing-upward
cycles in the Salem. These interpretations have been supported by study of drill cuttings. Further
study of these units is necessary to understand the facie s relationships and probable time-
transgressive nature of the lithologic contacts (Lineback 1972, Cluff and Lineback 1981).

The upper part of the Mississippian, the Pope Group (Chesterian), consists of alternating thin,
interbedded units of shale, sandstone, and limestone, some of which are major hydrocarbon-
producing units in the basin. Some units in the Pope, particularly some of the limestones, are
relatively widespread in the basin and are useful for structural mapping. Other units are more
variable lithologically and include siliciclastic and carbonate facies that intertongue and thereby
provide stratigraphic hydrocarbon traps in the Pope Group. Relatively thin units within the Pope
are readily distinguishable on wireline logs because of contrasting lithologies.

The Pope Group marks a transition from the dominantly marine environments of the earlier Paleo-
zoic to the dominantly nearshore marine and nonmarine environments of the subsequent Pennsyl-
vanian Period. The Pope was primarily deposited in marine environments that ranged from shal-
low subtidal to intertidal; some of the rocks were deposited in supratidal and subaerial environ-
ments and show evidence of soil development (Treworgy 1988, Ambers and Petzold 1992). The
primary source of siliciclastic sediments in the Pope, as in the Pennsylvanian System, was the
Canadian Shield to the northeast. Siliciclastics of the Pope Group also entered the basin from the
west and possibly from the east.

A eustatic drop in sea level at the end of the Mississippian Period and subsequent erosion formed
the major unconformity that marks the Kaskaskia-Absaroka Sequence boundary. In the southern-
most part of the basin, this unconformity represents a relatively short hiatus of probably less than
two conodont zones (Weibel and Norby 1992).

Absaroka Sequence

Pennsylvanian System The unconformable surface at the top of the Mississippian is char-
acterized by an anastamosing network of channels (note channels near infill drill holes 5 and 45),
some of which a as deep as 450 feet (Bristol and Howard 1971). Coarse grained, lower Penn-
sylvanian sandsiones commonly found at the base of these incised channels form important
hydrocarbon reservoirs (Howard and Whitaker 1988, 1990).

The remainder of the Pennsylvanian System in Illinois consists of cyclically deposited marine,
estuarine, and nonmarine siliciclastic rocks and widespread, thin coals and limestones. Upward
within this succession, the amount of sandstone generally decreases while thin limestones
become more common, as shown in the southern four drill holes (A-D). These changes indicate a
gradual rise in sea level and a corresponding reduction in siliciclastic influx. Numerous hydro-
carbon-bearing reservoirs have been found in the lower part of the Pennsylvanian. In the middle of
the Pennsylvanian, the Desmoinesian Series includes several widespread minable coal beds.

Post-Pennsylvanian The Pennsylvanian is bounded at the top by a major unconformity that
extends to the Quaternary throughout most of the Illinois Basin. However, in a fault block in the
Rough Creek-Shawneetown Fault System in western Kentucky, drilling penetrated a succession
of Permian marine rocks consisting of nearly 400 feet of shale, siltstone, and limestone (Kehn et
al. 1982). The presence of these rocks indicates that marine deposition continued into the
Permian in at least the southernmost part of the basin. Data on moisture content relative to depth
for Pennsylvanian coals in the basin indicate that a mile or more of rock, which has subsequently
been eroded, may have overlain the present Pennsylvanian surface throughout the basin (Dam-
berger 1991). Elsewhere in southernmost Illinois, Cretaceous and Tertiary sandstones, shales,
and gravels unconformably overlie strata of various ages. Cretaceous gravels occur locally in
westernmost Illinois as well.

By the beginning of the Quaternary, the top of the Pennsylvanian throughout most of the Illinois
Basin had been exposed to erosion. During the Quaternary, a mantle of glacial sediments was
deposited, concealing most of the Paleozoic bedrock. Where these deposits fill paleovalleys, they
are up to 500 feet thick (for example, between the Mathesius [I] and Vedovell [J] drill holes).

STRUCTURE

Fault blocks in the Precambrian crystalline basement have been inferred beneath several areas of
known faults and steep folds in the overlying Paleozoic section. Additional fractures and fault
blocks are possibly present in the basement rocks beneath other Paleozoic structures.

Much of the major post-rifting structural movement in the Illinois Basin occurred during latest
Pennsylvanian and the Early Permian. The entire Paleozoic section has been rather uniformly
folded or faulted over the major structural features traversed by this cross section, indicating that
major movement followed deposition of the entire stratigraphic section. Movement apparently
occurred on some structures at other times as well. The La Salle Anticlinorium, for example,
underwent significant uplift during mid-Mississippian (this cross section, Treworgy and Whitaker
1990b, Reed et al. 1991), late Mississippian (Cluff and Lasemi 1980, Treworgy 1988), and early
Pennsylvanian, as well as intermittent movement during the remainder of the Pennsylvanian
(Kolata and Nelson 1991a ). The Plum River Fault Zone became active during the Middle Devo-
nian and was most active from post-Devonian to pre-Pennsylvanian time; post-Pennsylvanian
displacements, however, were limited (Bunker et al. 1985).

From the Harrison (D) drill hole in Moultrie County northward to the Ryan (E) drill hole in De Witt
County, the Middle Devonian section thins. Most of the thinning occurs within four miles of the
Harrison drill hole and is due initially to the loss of the Grand Tower Limestone at the base. This
thinning is apparently due to a subtle paleostructure, the Sangamon Arch, which was uplifted dur-
ing the Silurian and Devonian (Whiting and Stevenson 1965). The apparent uniform thickness of
the overlying New Albany Group across this feature indicates that the structure had little relief by
Late Devonian. It is worth noting, however, that overlying the Sangamon Arch is the Burlington-
Keokuk carbonate bank (between the Harrison [D] and Taylor [F] drill holes). Because carbonate
banks commonly occur on sea floors with pre-existing topographic relief, there may have been
renewed uplift of the Sangamon Arch during the early Valmeyeran.

At the crest of the Sangamon Arch at its northeastern extent in De Witt County (Whiting and Ste-
venson 1965) is an apparent structural hinge-line just south of the Ryan (E) drill hole. South of this
hinge-line, Paleozoic units from the base of the Pennsylvanian to the Precambrian dip slightly
nore steeply into the basin, whereas north of the hinge-line they almost lie flat. In thh hinge-line
area, the Ordovician Joachim Dolomite pinches out updip, and the late Valmeyeran c rbonates
and rocks of the Chesterian Series are truncated below the sub-Absaroka (sub-Penr/-/lvanian)
unconformity. Although most of the movement along the hinge-line apparently occur, i during the
'ate Mississippian to early Pennsylvanian, minor movement probably occurred earlie id influ-
enced facies distributions, including the pinchout of the Joachim.

Another structural hinge-line occurs at the Thompson-Wetherell (C) drill hole. South c ihis drill
hole, Paleozoic units dip basinward somewhat more steeply than they do north of the hole. Along
with the increase in dip, it is also noteworthy that several facies changes occur, indicating that the
hinge-line may have been active at various times during the Paleozoic. Just south of this hinge-
line, Late Silurian-Early Devonian Bailey Limestone, an interreef basinal facies, pinches out updip
against the thickened carbonate bank facies of the Moccasin Springs Formation. The Bailey fa-
cies may include buildups of atively deeper-water mud mounds (Z. Lasemi, Illinois State Geo-
logical Survey, personal communication 1993). Higher in the section, the deeper-water facies of
the mid-Mississippian Ullin Limestone thins over a short distance as it onlaps a thickened Borden
Siltstone that was deposited along the shallower fringes of the basin. Also, the relatively deep
water Fort Payne facies, which is present to the south, is absent in this area. These facies shifts in
the Silurian and Mississippian suggest that the hinge-line may have been active during those
times, marking a change from deeper-water deposition to the south to shallower-water deposition
to the north. The interfingering of the mid-Mississippian Salem and St. Louis facies in this area
suggests that this was a transitional area between shallow subtidal (Salem) and intertidal to supra-
tidal (St. Louis) deposition at that time.

Another structural hinge-line occurs at infill drill hole 4. Paleozoic units from the base of the
Pennsylvanian to the Precambrian dip relatively more steeply into the basin south of drill hole 4
than they do north of the ho:c. Along this hinge-line, the Middle Ordovician Dutchtown Limestone
pincnes out. The Lower Devonian carbonates have also been truncated in this area by post-
Tippecanoe erosion. Again, most of the movement along this hinge-line probably occurred during
the late Mississippian to early Pennsylvanian.

In general, pre-Pennsylvania- strata in the southern part of the cross section have undergone
more tectonic movement thai nave Pennsylvanian strata. This movement is particularly evident
on the south flank of the Wapeila East Dome (Ryan [E] drill hole), where the pre-Pennsylvanian
strata dip more steeply than do the Pennsylvanian coals, indicating mid-Mississippian to very early
Pennsylvanian movement along the La Salle Anticlinorium. Truncation of the mid-Mississippian
Valmeyeran units on the south flank of the dome further supports this interpretation.

In summary, most post-rifting deforr :ion in the Illinois Basin occurred during mid-Mississippian
to early Pennsylvanian and latest Pennsylvanian to the Early Permian. Times of minor deforma-
tion can also be determined from this cross section and have been identified from detailed studies
of individual units.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Michael L. Sargent, Colin G. Treworgy, Dennis R. Kolata, and W. John Nelson of the Illinois State
Geological Survey (ISGS) shared their knowledge of the stratigraphic section, assisted with corre-
lations, and reviewed the cross section. Lloyd C. Furer (Indiana Geological Survey), John B.
Droste (Indiana University), Martin C. Noger (Kentucky Geological Survey), and Mark W. Long-
man (Lakewood, Colorado) also reviewed the cross section. Robert R. Pool (formerly of ISGS)
wrote programs for digitizing, plotting, and manipulating the wireline logs used in these cross

sections. Katherine Desulis and Andrew Finley (formerly of ISGS) spent many laborious hours
digitizing the logs for all the cross sections. The U.S. Geological Survey provided partial support
for having the digitized logs checked and plotted for the final cross section. Jacquelyn L. Hannah
carefully and patiently prepared camera-ready copy for all eight cross sections.

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