Pages authored by Charles E. Weir:

1. Rock Unit Names / Ancell Group
   Type locality: The composite type section of the Ancell Group (Templeton and Willman, 1966, p. 29) was designated in the bluffs north of Ancell, between Dutchtown and Rock Levee, Mo.
2. Rock Unit Names / Carbondale Group
   Type locality and use of name in Indiana: The name Carbondale Formation was first used by Shaw and Savage (1912, p. 6) in a description of rocks exposed near Carbondale in Jackson County, Ill.
3. Rock Unit Names / McLeansboro Group
   Type area and use of name: The name McLeansboro Formation was first used by De Wolf (1910, p. 181) for all rocks of Pennsylvanian age above the Herrin (No. 6) Coal of Illinois exposed near McLeansboro, Hamilton County, Ill.
4. Carbondale Group / Petersburg Formation
   Type area, reference section, and use of name: The name Petersburg, taken from Petersburg, Pike County, Ind., by Fuller and Ashley (1902, p. 2), was used for a coal in that area as well as for a formation consisting of the rocks between the bases of their Petersburg and Millersburg Coals.
5. Dugger Formation / Alum Cave Limestone Member
   Type section and use of name: The name Alum Cave was first used by Logan (1930, p. 168) in a columnar section for an indefinite interval of rock above the Springfield Coal Member in Sullivan County, Ind.
6. Dugger Formation / Bucktown Coal Member
   Type locality and identification problem: The name Bucktown Coal Member (Dugger Formation) was proposed by Wier (1965) in an unpublished manuscript and was first published by Burger and Wier (1970), who also designated a type section in sec.
7. Dugger Formation / Herrin Coal Member
   Type section and use of name in Indiana: The name Herrin, taken from Herrin, Wiliamson County, Ill,, where the coal was extensively mined, was first used by Worthen (1870, p. 93) and later by Shaw and Savage (1912, p. 6), who designated the type section in subsurface exposures in mines near Herrin.
8. Dugger Formation / Providence Limestone Member
   Type locality and use of name in Indiana: The name Providence Limestone was first used by Glenn (1922, p. 98) in describing exposures of a 1- to 4-foot (0.3- to 1.2-m) limestone bed near Providence, Webster County, Ky.
9. Dugger Formation / Universal Limestone Member
   Type locality and description: The name Universal Limestone Member (of the Dugger Formation) was first used by Wier (1951) for a mottled gray and brown limestone that is fine grained, argillaceous, and fossiliferous. The type locality is in the NW¼SW¼ sec.
10. Linton Formation / Coxville Sandstone Member
    Type section: The name Coxville Sandstone was first used by Ashley (1899, p. 300-301, 385) in describing a 20-foot (6-m) sandstone exposed on the northeast side of Raccoon Creek in the NE¼ sec. 16 T. 14 N., R 8 W, half a mile east of Coxville, Parke County, Ind.
11. Linton Formation / Velpen Limestone Member
    Type and reference sections and history of name: The name Velpen Coal was used by Fuller and Ashley (1902) for the coal in Pike County, Ind., now known as the Colchester Coal Member of the Linton Formation.
12. Petersburg Formation / Houchin Creek Coal Member
    Type and reference sections and use of name: The name Houchin Creek Coal was first used by Fuller and Ashley (1902, p 2) for the coal that is prominent along Houchin Creek in southeastern Pike County, Ind. This unit had previously been designated as Coal IVa by Ashley (1899, p. 90).
13. Petersburg Formation / Stendal Limestone Member
    Type and reference sections and synonym: The name Stendal Limestone Member (of the Petersburg Formation) was proposed by Wier (1961, 1965) for the limestone previously known as the Houchin Creek cap (Weller, Henbest, and Dunbar, 1942, p. 32) or the Houchin Creek Limestone (Cooper, 1946, p. 16) and exposed near Stendal, Pike County,...
14. McLeansboro Group / Mattoon Formation
    Type area and use of name: The Mattoon Formation was named for exposures near Mattoon in Coles County, Ill. (Kosanke and others, 1960, p. 39).
15. McLeansboro Group / Shelburn Formation
    Type locality and redefinition of name: The name Shelburn Formation was used by Cumings (1922, p. 525, 529) for the rocks included in the “interval between the disconformity above Coal VII and the base of the Merom Sandstone.”
16. Bond Formation / Fairbanks Coal Member
    Type locality: The name Fairbanks Coal Member was proposed by Wier (1961, 1965) for the coal that crops out and has been mined near Fairbanks in Sullivan County, Ind. The type locality is in the SW¼SE¼ sec.
17. Bond Formation / Livingston Limestone Member
    Type section and use of name: The name Livingston Limestone was first used by Worthen (1875, p. 11-19) for exposures near Livingston in Clark County, Ill. The type section consists of an upper limestone, 6.5 feet (2.0 m) thick a middle clay, shale, and thin coal, 4.5 feet (1.4 m) thick and a lower limestone, 14 feet (4.3 m) thick.
18. Bond Formation / Riverview Limestone Member
    Type section and use of name: The Riverview Limestone Member was named by Wier (1961, 1965) for exposures of a thin limestone at the northeast edge of Riverview, Sullivan County, Ind., in the SW¼SW¼SE¼ sec.
19. Bond Formation / St. Wendel Sandstone Member
    Type section and use of name: The name St. Wendells was first published as a formation name in a columnar section by Logan (1932), who apparently followed the terminology and spelling used in C. A. Malott's field notes and later published (Malott, 1948, p. 132) and who also used the term Bufkin Formation for probably...
20. Mattoon Formation / Cohn Coal Member
    Type locality and use of name in Indiana: The Cohn Coal was introduced by Newton and Weller (1937, p. 18) for exposures in the NE¼ sec. 1, T.11 N., R.12 W., Clark County, Ill., 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Cohn (now called Livingston).
21. Mattoon Formation / Merom Sandstone Member
    Type locality and use of name: Sandstone that crops out at Merom, Sullivan County, Ind., was first described by John Collett in 1871 (p. 199-200). He stated that “the stone work of the college edifice at Merom was quarried from massive ledges of the 'Merom Sandstone' north of town....”
22. Patoka Formation / Dicksburg Hills Sandstone Member
    Type area: The name Dicksburg Hills Sandstone was given by Malott (1948, p. 131, 137-138) to exposures in the Dicksburg Hills in the SW¼ sec. 18, T. 1 N., R. 10 W., southern Knox County, Ind.
23. Patoka Formation / Ditney Coal Member
    Type locality and reference section: The name Ditney Formation was first used by Fuller and Ashley (1902, p. 2) for the rocks between the Somerville Limestone (now the West Franklin Limestone Member of the Shelburn Formation) and the Inglefield Sandstone Member in an exposure that included 20 feet (6 m) of shale, thin sandstone, and thin...
24. Patoka Formation / Hazelton Bridge Coal Member
    Type section and use of name: The term Hazelton Bridge Formation was proposed by Malott (1939, p. 114) for 20 to 25 feet (6 to 8 m) of shale and one or two thin coal beds, some black shale, and a thin limestone that were exposed in a road cut south of Hazelton Bridge, which spans the White River in northern Gibson County, Ind.
25. Patoka Formation / Inglefield Sandstone Member
    Type section and use of name: The name Inglefield Sandstone was used by Fuller and Ashley (1902, p. 3) for 80 to 100 (24 to 30 m) of sandstone exposed in a railroad cut in the SW¼NW¼ and SE¼NW¼ sec. 8, T. 5 S., R. 10 W., near Inglefield in northern Vanderburgh County, Ind.