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STATE OF ILLINOIS DWIGHT H. GREEN, Governor DEPARTMENT OF REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION FRANK G. THOMPSON, Director DIVISION OF THE STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY M. M. LEIGHTON, Chief URBANA RKPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS- NO. 129 PHYSIOGRAPHIC DIVISIONS OF ILLINOIS M. M. LEIGHTON, GEORGE E. EKBLAW, and LELAND HORBERG Reprinted from The Journal of Geology Vol. 56, No. 1, January, 1948 PRINTED BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS URBANA, ILLINOIS 1948 ORGANIZATION STATE OF ILLINOIS HON. DWIGHT H. GREEN, Governor DEPARTMENT OF REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION HON. FRANK G. THOMPSON, Director BOARD OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION HON. FRANK G. THOMPSON, Chairman W. H. NEWHOUSE, Ph.D., Geology ROGER ADAMS, Ph.D., D.Sc, Chemistry LOUIS R. HOVVSON, C.E., Engineering A. E. EMERSON, Ph.D., Biology LEWIS H. TIFFANY, Ph.D., Forestry GEORGE D. STODDARD, Ph.D., Litt.D, LL.D., L.II.D. President of the University of Illinois GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DIVISION M. M. LEIGHTON, Chief SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL STAFF OF THE STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DIVISION 100 Natural Resources Building, Urbana M. M. LEIGHTON, Ph.D., Chief Enid TOWNLET, M.S., Assistant to the Chief Helen E. McMorris, Secretary to the Chief Velda A. Millard, Junior Asst. to the Chief Elizabeth Stephens, B.S., Geological Assistant GEOLOGICAL RESOURCES Mineral Resource Records Arthur Bevan, Ph.D., D.Sc, Principal Geologist in Vivian Gordon, Head Charge Ruth R. Warden, B.S., Research Assistant Dorothy F. Spencer, B.S., Technical Assistant Mary Burnett, Technical Assistant Coal Harriet C. Daniels, B.A., Technical Assistant G. H. Cady, Ph.D., Senior Geologist and Head GEOCHEMISTRY R. J. Helfinstine, M.S., Mech. Engineer Robert M. Kosanke, M.A., Assoc. Geologist Frank H. Reed, Ph.D., Chief Chemist John A. Harrison, B.S., Asst. Geologist Grace C. Johnson, B.S., Research Assistant Jack A. Simon, M.S., Asst. Geologist (on leave) Raymond Siever, M.S., Asst. Geologist Coal Mary E. Barnes, B.S., Asst. Geologist Margaret Parker, B.S., Asst. Geologist G. R. Yohe, Ph.D., Chemist and Head D. Robert Scherer, B.F.A., Technical Assistant Ruth C. Wildman, M.S., Research Asnstanl Clare O. Gordy, B.A., Technical Assistant Industrial Minerals Oil and Gas J. S. Machin, Ph.D., Chemist and Head Tin Boo Yee, M.S., Assistant Chemist Ph.D., Geologist and A. H. Bell, Head Paulene Ekman, B.A., Research Assistant Frederick Squires, B.S., Petroleum Engineer David H. Swann, Ph.D., Assoc. Geologist Virginia Kline, Ph.D., Assoc. Geologist Fluorspar Paul G. Luckhardt, M.S., Asst. Geologist G. C. Finger, Ph.D., Chemist and Head Wayne F. Meents, Asst. Geologist Horst G. Schneider, B.S., Special Research Assistant Richard J. Cassin, B.S., Research Assistant Robert E. Oesterling, B.A., Special Research Asst. Nancy McDurmitt, B.S., Research Assistant Richard Blough, B.A., Research Assistant Industrial Minerals Chemical Engineering H. W. Jackman, M.S.F.., Chemical Engineer and Head E. Lamar, B.S., Geologist and Head J. P. W. Henline, M.S., Assoc. Chemical Engineer Robert M. Grogan, Ph.D., Assoc. Geologist B. J. Greenwood, B.S., Mechanical Engineer Raymond S. Shrode, B.S., Research Assistant James C. McCullough, Research Associate Clay Resources and Clay Mineral Technology X-ray and Spectrography Ralph E. Grim, Ph.D., Petrographer and Head W. F. Bradley, Ph.D., Chemist and Head William A. White, B.S., Asst. Geologist Analytical Chemistry Groundwater Geology and Geophysical Exploration O. W. Rees, Ph.D., Chemist and Head L. D. McVicker, B.S., Chemist Carl A. Bays, Ph.D., Geologist and Engineer, and Head Howard S. Clark, A.B., Assoc. Chemist Robert R. Storm, A.B., Assoc. Geologist Emile D. Pierron, B.S., Research Assistant Merlyn B. Buhle, M.S., Assoc. Geologist Elizabeth Bartz, A.B., Research Assistant M. W. Pullen, Jr., M.S., Asst. Geologist Gloria J. Gilkey, B.S., Research Assistant Gordon W. Prescott, B.S., Asst. Geologist Wm. F. Loranger, B.A., Research Assistant Robert N. M. Crash, B.S., Asst. Geologist Ruth E. Koski, B.S., Research Assistant Margaret J. Castle, Asst. Geologic Draftsman Annabelle G. Elliott, B.S., Technical Assistant Engineering Geology and Topographic Mapping MINERAL ECONOMICS W. H. Voskuil, Ph.D., Mineral Economist George E. Ekblaw, Ph.D., Geologist and Head W. L. Busch, Research Associate Richard F. Fisher, M.S., Asst. Geologist Nina Hamrick, A.M., Research Assistant Ethel M. King, Research Assistant Areal Geology and Paleontology EDUCATIONAL EXTENSION H. B. Willman, Ph.D., Geologist and Head Heinz A. Lowenstam, Ph.D., Assoc. Geologist Gilbert O. Raasch, Ph.D., Assoc. Geologist Dorothy Ranney, 6.S., Technical J. S. Templeton, Ph.D., Assoc. Geologist Assistant LIBRARY Subsurface Geology Anne E. Kovanda, B.S., B.L.S., Librarian L. E. Workman, M.S., Geologist and Head Ruby D. Frison, Technical Assistant Elwood Atherton, Ph.D., Assoc. Geologist Paul Herbert, Jr., B.S., Asst. Geologist PUBLICATIONS Marvin P. Meyer, M.S., Asst. Geologist Dorothy E. Rose, B.S., Technical Editor Donald Saxby, M.S., Asst. Geologist M. Elizabeth Staaks, B.S., Robert C. McDonald, B.S., Research Assistant Assistant Editor Meredith M. Calkins, Geologic Draftsman Ardis D. Pye, Assistant Geologic Draftsman Physics Wayne W. Nofftz, Technical Assistant Leslie D. Vaughan, Assoc. Photographer R.J. Piersol, Ph.D., Physicist Emeritus Beulah M. Unfer, Technical Assistant Consultants: Ceramics, Ralph K. Hursh, B.S., University of Illinois; Mechanical Engineering, Seichi Konzo, M.S., University of Illinois Topographic Mapping in Cooperation with the United States Geological Survey. January 15, 1948 PHYSIOGRAPHIC DIVISIONS OF ILLINOIS M. M. LEIGHTON, GEORGE E. EKBLAW, AND LELAND HORBERG ABSTRACT The classification proposes minor modifications in Fenneman's divisions and recognizes subdivisions of the Till Plains and Great Lakes sections, based largely on glacial features. The boundaries and characteris- tic features of the subdivisions are described, and their origin and relations to glacial features and bedrock topography are discussed. INTRODUCTION The report is the outgrowth of geo- During the last sixty years increasing morphic and glacial investigations car- attention has been given to physio- ried on by Leighton since 1919, by Ekblaw since and of recent studies graphic classification ; and the broad out- 1923, lines first conceived by W. M. Davis, of the bedrock topography and subsur- face Pleistocene deposits by Horberg. J. W. Powell, and others have crystal- lized into a widely accepted classification Copies of a preliminary draft of the map for the United States. The establishment of physiographic divisions of Illinois of this classification was due largely to were prepared in 1944 and furnished to comprehensive studies by the late N. M. the Committee on Drainage Basins and Fenneman (1914, pp. 84-134; 1928, pp. Flood Control of the Illinois Post-war Planning Commission and to the Illinois 261-353; 1 931; 1938). In these studies it was recognized that, with the progress of Legislative Flood Investigating Commis- topographic and geologic mapping and sion. the advances in geomorphic knowledge, GENERAL DESCRIPTION AND REGIONAL numerous refinements and revisions RELATIONS would be made. It is the purpose of the present report to make such adjustments Illinois is essentially a prairie plain, of Fenneman's regional boundaries in and, compared with many other states, Illinois as are warranted by present in- it presents few striking physiographic formation and to delineate smaller sub- contrasts. The relief over most of the divisions which distinguish physiograph- state is moderate to slight and is not suf- ic differences that can be shown on large- ficient to exert a marked effect on cli- scale maps and which can be used in mate. Situated in the south-central part regional studies within the state (table of the great Central Lowland (fig. 2) and 1 and fig. 1). These subdivisions, in near the confluence of major lines of turn, may be broken down later into still drainage, it is the lowest of the north- smaller units which may be used as a central states. The mean elevation is basis for description in quadrangle re- about 600 feet above sea-level, compared ports and other local studies. Local phys- with 700 feet for Indiana, 1,050 feet for iographic areas of this type have been Wisconsin, 1,100 feet for Iowa, and 800 described by F. M. Fryxell (1927, pp. feet for Missouri (Gannett, 1892, p. 1-53) and by H. B. Willman (1942, pp. 289). The total relief of the state is 973 31-37). In the present paper only the feet, the highest point, 1,241 feet above distinctive characteristics of the larger sea-level, being Charles Mound in the subdivisions are summarized. northwest corner of the state, and the 16 PHYSIOGRAPHIC DIVISIONS OF ILLINOIS 17 lowest point, 268 feet above sea-level, the Plateaus, and Coastal Plain—lie almost junction of the Ohio and Mississippi entirely outside the glacial boundary in rivers. The greatest local relief is near the southern and southwestern Illinois. major valleys, especially within the FACTORS DETERMINING PHYSIOGRAPHIC driftless uplands of northwestern and CONTRASTS southern Illinois, and reaches a maxi- mum of 775 feet between Williams Hill, The physiographic contrasts between 1,065 feet above sea-level, and the Ohio various parts of Illinois are due to the River Valley, 290 feet above sea-level, in following factors and conditions: topog- TABLE 1 Physiographic Classifications of Illinois Classification by Leighton, Ekblavv Classification by Fenneman and Horberg Central Lowland province Central Lowland province f Great Lake section Great Lake section < Chicago Lake Plain [ Wheaton Morainal Country Till Plains section Kankakee Plain Bloomington Ridged Plain Till Plains section. Rock River Hill Country Green River Lowland Galesburg Plain Springfield Plain Mount Vernon Hill Country Dissected Till Plains section Wisconsin Driftless section. Wisconsin Driftless section Ozark Plateaus province /Ozark Plateaus province \ Lincoln Hills section Salem Plateau section Salem Plateau section Interior Low Plateaus province Interior Low Plateaus province Shawnee section Shawnee Hills section Coastal Plain province Coastal Plain province Pope County of southern Illinois.
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