Kankakee Arch (NE), Cincinnati Arch (SE) Pascola Arch (S), Ozark Dome (SW) Mississippi River Arch (NW), Wisconsin Arch (N)
Area
80,000 sq mi (210,000 km2)
Geology
Plate
North American
Age
Cambrian-Pennsylvanian
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy
Faults
New Madrid Seismic Zone, Wabash Valley Seismic Zone
Field(s)
Coal fields
The Illinois Basin is a Paleozoic depositional and structural basin in the United States, centered in and underlying most of the state of Illinois, and extending into southwestern Indiana and western Kentucky. The basin is elongate, extending approximately 400 miles (640 km) northwest-southeast, and 200 miles (320 km) southwest-northeast.
^"Thrust faults in southern Illinois basin -- result of contemporary stress?". USGS. 1987. Retrieved 19 September 2017. Northwest corner of quadrant
The IllinoisBasin is a Paleozoic depositional and structural basin in the United States, centered in and underlying most of the state of Illinois, and...
Denver Basin, Colorado IllinoisBasin, Illinois Los Angeles Basin, California Michigan Basin, Michigan North Park Colorado Basin Paradox Basin, Utah and...
Located in the U.S. state of Illinois, the river has a drainage basin of 28,756.6 square miles (74,479 km2). The Illinois River begins with the confluence...
Devonian-Mississippian New Albany Shale produces gas in the southeast IllinoisBasin in Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. The New Albany has been a gas producer...
cause, scientists discovered the Cottage Grove Fault in the Southern IllinoisBasin. Within the region, millions felt the rupture. Reactions to the earthquake...
Figure 1.) The thickness of the Salina Group varies greatly within the two basins, ranging from 84 feet in the southwestern corner of Michigan to an estimated...
is the primary river, and second-longest river, of the largest drainage basin in the United States. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern...
vast ice sheets covered much of Illinois, with only the Driftless Area remaining exposed. These glaciers carved the basin of Lake Michigan and left behind...
region of southern Illinois that rests mainly in an east-west arc roughly following the outline of the southern end of the IllinoisBasin. Whereas Mississippian...
word". Harrisburg Illinois Library. Retrieved April 8, 2009. James, Steve (May 11, 2012). "Coal makes a comeback in IllinoisBasin in U.S." Reuters. Retrieved...
balls, and by the 1930s had drawn paleobotanists from Europe to the IllinoisBasin in search of them. There are two theories – the autochthonous (in situ)...
These basins, termed the IllinoisBasin and Michigan Basin, allowed for extensive deposition of sedimentary rock during the Palaeozoic Era. The Illinois Basin...
around the edge of the basin and deep earth dynamics. The Illinoisbasin and Michigan basin are examples of intracontinental basins. Extensive swamps are...
Appalachia, the Powder River Basin, Illinoisbasin and the Western Bituminous regions. The company operates mines in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Utah, Virginia...
The Pope Mega Group is a geologic unit found in the IllinoisBasin of southern Illinois, southwestern Indiana, and western Kentucky. In Indiana and Kentucky...
Appalachian Basin (78 percent share, down from 92 percent in 1880), Lima-Indiana (90 percent, down from 95 percent in 1906), and the IllinoisBasin (83 percent...
Michigan and the Michigan Basin. To the south, the strata dips southwest toward the IllinoisBasin. Within the Kankakee Basin (Lake, Jasper, and Pulaski...
Plateau and the Ohio River, but is part of the IllinoisBasin that extends into Indiana and Illinois. It is characterized by Pennsylvanian age sandstones...
the northwestern area of the state, as the southeastern part of the IllinoisBasin. The coalfield and the Pennyroyal are of different geologic ages and...
34,000 barrels-per-day of crude from the IllinoisBasin, a series of small oilfields in southeastern Illinois, southwestern Indiana, and western Kentucky...
the margins of the basin, while Precambrian rocks crop out to the west in central Wisconsin. The northeastern margin of Illinois around Chicago are on...
uplift between the IllinoisBasin to the west, the Michigan Basin to the northwest, and the Appalachian Basin and Black Warrior Basin to the east and southeast...
The Great Lakes Basin consists of the Great Lakes and the surrounding lands of the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania...
Sedimentary basins in the eastern and midwestern United States. The primary basin they are found in is the Appalachian Basin, as well as the IllinoisBasin and...
the genus of Orenia which has been isolated from groundwater from the IllinoisBasin. "Species: Orenia metallireducens". LPSN.DSMZ.de. Dong, Yiran; Sanford...
History of Paleosols In Middle–Upper Pennsylvanian Cyclothems of the IllinoisBasin, U.S.A.: Part II. Integrating Geomorphology, Climate, and Glacioeustasy"...
largest amount of coal are Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana, the Appalachian Basin and the IllinoisBasin. In the United States, coal production...
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