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  • Usage in publication:
    • Atlantic flow*
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Wisconsin arch
Publication:

Butler, B.S., and Burbank, W.S., 1929, The copper deposits of Michigan: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 144, 238 p., See also "Stratigraphic position of the named subdivisions of the Keweenawan Series of Michigan," compiled by M.G. Wilmarth, Secretary of Committee on Geologic Names, under supervision of B.S. Butler, USGS unpub. corr. chart, June 1929, sheet 2


Summary:

Atlantic flow. Includes Atlantic amygdaloid and underlying trap. Age is Precambrian (Keweenawan).
Named from occurrence in Atlantic Mine, Houghton Co., northern MI.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 164); GNC MI Keweenawan Series Corr. Chart, June 1929.


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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