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The Sankoty aquifer provides groundwater to a number of communities in northwestern and central Illinois. The sand which comprises the Sankoty aquifer was named after a railroad siding near Peoria, IL in 1948 by Leland Horberg. The legal description given by Horberg in identifying the type locality for the Sankoty sand is T??N, R??E, Section ?? (Peoria county).


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Lithologic Description

]] The Sankoty sand is a very-well sorted, medium-grained quartz rich sand. It is an unconsolidated deposit lying in a bedrock valley formerly occupied by the ancestral Mississippi River.

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