Odell Anticline (Discarded)

Location

La Salle, Grundy, and Livingston Counties

References

Willman and Payne 1942

Description

The Odell Anticline was one of a belt of anticlines and synclines that were mapped by Willman and Payne (1942) on the basis of Cambrian and Ordovician subsurface data. The folds could be considered part of the La Salle Anticlinorium, but their existence is questionable because Willman and Payne used so few control points. As they mapped it, the Odell Anticline is a vaguely defined anticlinal nose. It cannot be recognized on the structure map of the Galena Group (Bristol and Buschbach 1973) or on the structure map of the Franconia Formation (Kolata et al. 198:3), both of which were mapped from additional data not available to Willman and Payne. The name should be dropped from usage.