Kempton Syncline (Discarded)

Location

Southwestern Kankakee and northernmost Ford Counties

References

Willman and Payne 1942

Description

The Kempton Syncline was mapped as trending slightly west of north and situated west of the Herscher Anticline. Willman and Payne's (1942) structure maps of the St. Peter, Galena, and Maquoketa horizons show only part of the west limb of the Kempton Syncline. Bristol and Buschbach's (1973) structure map of the Galena Group shows a trough, more or less equivalent to Willman and Payne's Kempton Syncline, curving southwestward and connecting with the Colfax Syncline in McLean and Piatt Counties. The use of the name Kempton Syncline should be dropped because the feature is not distinct from the well defined Colfax Syncline.