| Abstract: | The Ticona Channel is located in north-central Illinois and occurs in Grundy, LaSalle, and Putnam counties. It is a buried bedrock valley that served as the principal paleodrainage system in north-central Illinois during the Illinoian and pre-Illinoian. This study focused on the part of the Ticona Channel within the Leonore 7.5??? Quadrangle. The geometry and stratigraphy of sediments that fill the Ticona Channel were investigated using high-resolution, shallow seismic reflection profiling, traditional field geologic mapping techniques, borehole data, and water-well-log data. The valley is about 2 km (1 mi) wide and approximately 60 m (200 ft) deep. The U-shape channel is straight, trends east-west, and has only one mappable tributary. The valley is carved into the Pennsylvanian Carbondale Formation in the eastern part of the study area; it has incised into the Ordovician Prairie du Chien Group in the west. At its base, the Ticona Channel is filled with the Pearl Formation, which is coarse-grained sand and gravel that was deposited during the Illinoian glaciation. The Pearl Formation is overlain by Illinoian till of the Glasford Formation and is capped by Wedron Group sediments from the Wisconsinan stage. Copyright ?? 2007. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists/Division of Environmental Geosciences. All rights reserved. |
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| Citation Author: | Willems, B. A.; Malone, D. H.; Pugin, A. |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Geologic characteristics of the central stretch of the Ticona Channel, north-central Illinois; 2007; Article; Journal; Environmental Geosciences; Willems, B. A.; Malone, D. H.; Pugin, A. |
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| Text: | Geologic characteristics of the central stretch of the Ticona Channel, north-central Illinois; 2007; Article; Journal; Environmental Geosciences; Willems, B. A.; Malone, D. H.; Pugin, A. |
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| URL (DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1306/eg.05030606002 |
| Date Other: | Mon, 1 Jan 2007 00:00 -0600 |
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