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Provenance, age, and environment of mid-wisconsinan slackwater lake sediment in the St. Louis Metro East Area, USA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

B. Brandon Curry  and
David A. Grimley
B. Brandon Curry*
Affiliation:
Illinois State Geological Survey, 615 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820, USA
David A. Grimley
Affiliation:
Illinois State Geological Survey, 615 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820, USA
*
*Corresponding author.Email Address:curry@isgs.uiuc.edu(B.B. Curry).
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Abstract

Valleys tributary to the Mississippi River contain fossiliferous slackwater lake sediment (Equality Formation) deposited in response to aggradation of the Mississippi River valley during the last glaciation. In the St. Louis Metro East area, the lower part of the Equality Formation is primarily laminated, fossiliferous silt and clay deposited from about 44,150 to 24,310 14C yr B.P. The upper Equality Formation is primarily very fine sand to silt deposited from about 21,200 to 17,000 14C yr B.P. Among the four cores that sample this succession in the St. Louis Metro East area, core MNK-3 (38.64EN, 90.01EW) was selected for detailed study. Three sources are distinguished by the following characteristics: (1) gray smectite-quartz-Se-rich, feldspar-poor material of the Des Moines, Wadena, and James lobes; (2) reddish brown kaolinite–Cu–Fe-rich sediment of the Superior and Rainy lobes; and (3) brown illite–dolomite–Sr-rich sediment of the Lake Michigan and Green Bay lobes. The earliest sediments (44,150 to 41,700 14C yr B.P.) were derived from the central and western provenances and are chronocorrelative with the lower Roxana Silt. A hiatus occurred from about 41,700 to 29,030 14C yr B.P. when much of the middle Roxana Silt (Meadow Member) was deposited on adjacent uplands. The youngest sediment includes evidence of heightened activity of the Superior Lobe at about 29,000 14C yr B.P., the Lake Michigan and Green Bay lobes from about 25,000 to 24,000 14C yr B.P., and the Wadena-Des Moines-James lobes at about 21,000 14C yr B.P.

Keywords

St. LouisSlackwaterProvenanceWisconsinanMineralogy
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Quaternary Research , Volume 65 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 108 - 122
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University of Washington

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