Pg. 4 (table 1); App., p. A12-2 to A12-4. Hanson Creek Member of Miller Creek Formation (new). (Follows the informal usage of E.A. Need, 1980, Univ. Wisconsin MS thesis, as modified by Lee Clayton; M.D. Johnson, 1980, Univ. Wisconsin MS thesis.) Occurs in the Superior Lobe along the Lake Superior shoreline in Douglas and Bayfield Counties, Wisconsin. Consists of dark reddish-brown till. Thickness 7.5 m at type section. Overlies pre-Pleistocene rocks or Copper Falls Formation (new); underlies Douglas Member (new) or sand of Miller Creek Formation. Age is Pleistocene (latest Wisconsinan).
Type section (=Miller Creek Formation type section): exposures in bluff along Lake Superior, 0.25 mi (0.4 km) west of mouth of Amnicon River, in SE/4 SW/4 SW/4 sec. 27, T. 49 N., R. 12 W., [approx. Lat. 46 deg. 41 min. 30 sec. N., Long. 91 deg. 51 min. 45 sec. W.], Poplar NE 7.5-min quadrangle, Douglas Co., northern WI.
Named from Hanson Creek, flowing into Lake Superior 0.6 mi (1 km) east of the mouth of the Amnicon River, Douglas Co., northern WI; name credited to E.A. Need.
Reference section: bluff along Lake Superior, 0.2 mi (0.3 km) southwest of mouth of Pearson Creek, in SE/4 SE/4 NW/4 sec. 22, T. 49 N., R. 11 W., [approx. Lat. 46 deg. 42 min. 50 sec. N., Long. 91 deg. 43 min. 55 sec. W.], Cloverland 7.5-min quadrangle, Douglas Co., northern WI.
[Additional locality information from Syverson and others, 2011, Wisconsin lexicon of Pleistocene units, Wisconsin Geol. Nat. Hist. Survey Tech. Rpt., no. 1; supplemented from USGS historical topographic map collection TopoView, accessed on June 9, 2018.]

Source: Publication; US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1565, p. 125-126).

[Not synopsized to date. Lithology, thickness, distinguishing characteristics, contacts, sections, areal extent, age, correlations discussed.]
Pg. 4 (fig. 2), 7 (fig. 3), 8, 148-149. Glenmore Member of Kewaunee Formation.

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