Peabody Coal Pit Map (Mazon Creek)

[connorp]

Does anyone have a map demarcating the different Peabody Coal pits in Illinois (i.e. the pits where Mazon Creek fossils are found)? I can't seem to find one online.

[Oxytropidoceras]

There is an online map with pit numbers in "Mazon Creek Area Paleontology",

Department of Paleontology, Smithsonian at:

https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/paleobiology/mazoncreek/mazonPaleo.html

https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/paleobiology/mazoncreek/_imgMazon/Map3.jpg

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[Oxytropidoceras]

The original maps of the pits of coal Mazon Creek can found online

as Figure 2, page 16 of;

 

Phillips, T.L., 1973. Development of paleobotany in the Illinois Basin. 

Illinois State Geological Survey Circular no. 480.

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/43012/developmentofpal480phil.pdf?sequence=2

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/43012

http://isgs.illinois.edu/research/coal/publications/other

https://archive.org/stream/developmentofpal480phil/developmentofpal480phil_djvu.txt

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/10209220.pdf

 

Related publications about Mazon Creek are:

 

Pfefferkorn, H.W., Peppers, R.A. and Phillips, T.L., 1971. Some 

fern-like fructifications and their spores from the Mazon Creek 

compression flora of Illinois (Pennsylvanian). Illinois State 

Geological Survey Circular no. 463.

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/44689

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/44689/somefernlikefruc463pfef.pdf?sequence=2

http://isgs.illinois.edu/research/coal/publications/other

 

Noé, A.C., 1925. Pennsylvanian flora of northern Illinois. Illinois 

State Geological Survey Bulletin no. 52

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/43188

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/43188/pennsylvanianflo52noac.pdf?sequence=2

http://library.isgs.illinois.edu/Pubs/pdfs/bulletins/bul052.pdf

http://isgs.illinois.edu/research/coal/publications/other

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.