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  • Usage in publication:
    • Arpin conglomerate and quartzite
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Lake Superior region
Publication:

Weidman, Samuel, 1907, The geology of north-central Wisconsin: Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin, no. 16, 697 p.


Summary:

Pg. 366. Arpin conglomerate and quartzite. Quartzite probably 200 to 500 feet thick, which resembles Baraboo quartzite. Exposed immediately south of Arpin, Wood County. Contains pebbles of Powers Bluff quartzite. Is either upper or middle Huronian. [Age is Precambrian.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 77).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Arpin conglomerate and quartzite
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Lake Superior region
Publication:

Van Hise, C.R., and Leith, C.K., 1911, The geology of the Lake Superior region: U.S. Geological Survey Monograph, 52, 641 p., See also Washington Acad. Sci. Jour., v. 1, p. 157-160, 1911 [abs.]


Summary:

Chart opp. p. 598. Arpin conglomerate and quartzite. Assigned this formation to "Animikie group (upper Huronian)."

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 77).


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