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The Illinois-Kentucky Fluorite District, Hicks Dome, and Garden of the Gods in Southeastern Illinois and Northwestern Kentucky Outlet glacier response to forcing over hourly to interannual timescales, Jakobshavn Isbræ, Greenland Item Type Article Authors Podrasky, David; Truffer, Martin; Fahnestock, Mark; Amundson, Jason M.; Cassoto, Ryan; Joughin, Ian Citation Podrasky, D., M. Truffer, M. Fahnestock, J. M. Amundson, R. Cassotto, and I. Joughin (2012), Outlet glacier response to forcing over hourly to interannual timescales, Jakobshavn Isbræ, Greenland, J. Glaciol., 58(212), 1212– 1226, doi:10.3189/2012JoG12J065. Publisher International Glaciological Society Journal Journal of Glaciology Download date 01/10/2021 22:52:44 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/11122/11057 FLD012-02-denny 2nd pgs page 11 The Geological Society of America Field Guide 12 2008 The Illinois-Kentucky Fluorite District, Hicks Dome, and Garden of the Gods in southeastern Illinois and northwestern Kentucky F. Brett Denny* Illinois State Geological Survey, 5776 Coal Drive, Suite 2, Carterville, Illinois 62918-3521, USA Alan Goldstein* Indiana Department of Natural Resources, 201 West Riverside Dr., Clarksville, Indiana 47129, USA Joseph A. Devera* Illinois State Geological Survey, 5776 Coal Drive, Suite 2, Carterville, Illinois 62918-3521, USA David A. Williams* Kentucky Geological Survey, Kentucky Geological Survey, 1401 Corporate Ct., Henderson, Kentucky, 42420, USA Zakaria Lasemi* Illinois State Geological Survey, 615 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, Illinois, 61820-6964, USA W. John Nelson† Illinois State Geological Survey, 615 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, Illinois, 61820-6964, USA ABSTRACT Minerals have been extracted from the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorite District for over 170 years. Theories concerning the inter-relationship between the fl uorite min- eralization, tectonism, and igneous activity will be discussed by several geologists during this fi eld trip. The Columbia mine (vein deposit) will be visited in Kentucky, and the only mine currently producing fl uorite in this district, the Hastie Limestone Quarry (strata-bound deposit), will be visited in Illinois. The mining history of this region will be explained at the American Fluorite Museum, where numerous mineral specimens can be examined. The Hicks Dome, a Permian crypto-volcanic feature (?) in Illinois, will also be discussed. The trip will conclude with a walking tour at the Garden of the Gods Recreational Area to view the Eagle Valley Syncline and Lower Pennsylvanian units. Keywords: fl uorite, Hicks Dome, Mississippi Valley–type deposit, Illinois-Kentucky Fluorite District, fl uorspar, Permian igneous intrusion *Field trip leaders. †Honorary fi eld trip leader; retired. Denny, F.B., Goldstein, A., Devera, J.A., Williams, D.A., Lasemi, Z., and Nelson, W.J., 2008, The Illinois-Kentucky Fluorite District, Hicks Dome, and Garden of the Gods in southeastern Illinois and northwestern Kentucky, in Maria, A.H., and Counts, R.C., eds., From the Cincinnati Arch to the Illinois Basin: Geological Field Excursions along the Ohio River Valley: Geological Society of America Field Guide 12, p. 11–24, doi: 10.1130/2008.fl d012(02). For permission to copy, contact [email protected]. ©2008 The Geological Society of America. All rights reserved. 11 FLD012-02-denny 2nd pgs page 12 12 Denny et al. REGIONAL TECTONIC SETTING cambrian crystalline basement (Potter et al., 1995). This unique structure is believed to be the product of explosive and intrusive W. John Nelson igneous activity (Brown et al., 1954; Bradbury and Baxter, 1992; The Illinois-Kentucky Fluorite District is located within one Potter et al., 1995). of the most intensely faulted areas of the North American Mid- After the Alleghenian orogeny, the stress fi eld evolved from continent (Fig. 1), with vertical offsets of hundreds of meters compression to northwest-southeast crustal extension. Fault along several fault zones. Faulting includes normal extensional blocks uplifted during the compressive phase now sank, leav- with horst and grabens several kilometers in length, high angle ing narrow slices of older rock wedged within the fault zones reverse, and strike-slip. Tectonic activity has been episodic, and (Nelson and Lumm, 1985). With roughly one mile (1.6 km) of major periods of movement have been documented in the Cam- total extension, the great array of northeast-trending horsts and brian, Pennsylvanian, Permian, and Cretaceous Periods (Nelson, grabens of the Fluorspar Area Fault Complex developed (Hook, 1991). The complex array of faults began forming at least 500 1974; Trace, 1974; Trace and Amos, 1984). It is these extensional million years ago, and in some areas earth movements are still faults that served as pathways for hydrothermal fl uids, resulting in progress (Nelson, 1995). Faults are essential to mineraliza- in the vein deposits of the district. Precise timing of tectonic and tion as pathways for hydrothermal fl uids, resulting in bedded- mineralization events remains poorly constrained. Globally, the replacement as well as vein deposits. crustal extension in the Fluorspar District is most likely related to The oldest units exposed within the fi eld trip area crop out at the breakup of Pangea during Triassic and Jurassic time. the crest of Hicks Dome. The Hicks Dome is a crypto-volcanic Earth movements continued in the western part of the dis- structure that exposes Devonian rocks on top, and Mississippian trict through Tertiary and Quaternary Periods. Resulting struc- rocks along its fl anks (Nelson, 1995). Mississippian rocks are tures are mostly narrow grabens oriented northeast along with also exposed along the crest of the Tolu Arch (Baxter and Des- cross-faults oriented north-south to northwest. The overall frac- borough, 1965). Pennsylvanian rocks are present to the north, in ture pattern suggests pull-apart grabens having a component of the Eagle Valley Syncline, and in down-thrown fault blocks along right-lateral wrenching (Nelson et al., 1999). The present-day the Reelfoot Rift and Rough Creek Graben. stress fi eld is compressive along an east-west to ENE-WSW axis. Tectonic structure in the Fluorite District is inherited from Deeply buried rift structures in the vicinity of New Madrid, Mis- rifting that took place in the Cambrian during an episode of souri, continue to move in this most active earthquake region of widespread continental break-up. A narrow fault-bounded trough the Midcontinent. developed, curving from northeast in southern Illinois to east- west in Kentucky. This trench was bounded on the northwest by FLUORITE MINERALIZATION the Lusk Creek Fault Zone, on the north by the Rough Creek Fault System, and on the south by the Tabb and Pennyrile Fault F. Brett Denny and Alan Goldstein Systems. These normal faults dipped steeply near the surface The Illinois-Kentucky Fluorite District encompasses an area and less steeply at depth. The trough became an arm of the sea of approximately 1,000 square miles (Baxter et al., 1989). The where Lower (?) and Middle Cambrian sediments accumulated mineral deposits occur in veins along fault zones and as strata- to thicknesses of more than 3 km in places (Bertagne and Leis- bound bedding-replacement deposits. Typically, veins and strata- ing, 1991; Potter et al., 1995). By the Late Cambrian, the area had bound deposits are elongate parallel with northeasterly trending stabilized, but its faults remained as permanent zones of weak- fault zones in the region (Fig. 2). Fluorite mineralization is most ness that were periodically reactivated by changes to the regional always associated with a carbonate unit in both the vein depos- stress regimen. For example, portions of the Rough Creek and its and the strata-bound deposits. The largest deposits of fl uorite Pennyrile Fault Systems underwent renewed movement during were consistently found in the Ste. Genevieve Limestone. The the Acadian orogeny in Middle to Late Devonian time (Nelson Renault Limestone above and the St. Louis Limestone below also and Marshak, 1996). hosted moderate amounts of fl uorite (Fig. 3). Fluorite gravel lag Effects of the late Paleozoic Alleghenian orogeny were far deposits were also mined at several locations. more profound. Compression along a northwest-southeast axis Fluorite veins commonly are 3–12 feet (1–4 m) in width and reactivated many Cambrian-age rift faults with reverse motion, are mineralized along strike of the fault for several hundred feet. particularly along the northern and northwestern margins of Large veins may extend vertically for over 300 ft (100 m) and the rift (Nelson and Lumm, 1987). Vertically dipping strike- have widths of up to 45 ft (15 m). Fluorite in the veins occurs in slip (?) faults of small displacement developed parallel with the fi ssures as fi lling, as replacement of vein calcite, and as replace- stress axis. Ultramafi c igneous activity, dated as Early Permian ment of the limestone wall rock. The fl uorite in the bedding- (ca. 270 Ma), accompanied these events (Zartman et al., 1967). replacement deposits is commonly banded, with alternating light The climactic event was creation of Hicks Dome. Centered in and dark bands of fl uorite. The local miners called this banded Hardin County, Illinois, Hicks Dome is a nearly circular uplift texture coon-tail ore. The strata-bound deposits are capped by 12 km in diameter, with more than 1 km of structural relief. impermeable roof material of either a shale or tight sandstone Seismic refl ection data reveal that doming is seated within Pre- (Fig. 4). These deposits are generally horizontal but may dip FLD012-02-denny 2nd pgs page 13 Illinois-Kentucky Fluorite District,
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