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Geologic Unit: Ragged Hills
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Ragged Hills Member
  • Modifications:
    • First used
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Michigan basin
Publication:

Wohlabaugh, Norman, and Mancuso, J.J., 1990, Depositional and diagenetic history of the Big Cusp algal dolomite, Kona Formation, Marquette Range, Michigan: The Compass, Sigma Gamma Epsilon Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 67, no. 2, p. 84-93.


Summary:

Ragged Hills Member (informal) of Kona Dolomite of Chocolay Group of Marquette Range Supergroup. Authors use nomenclature of G.L. Taylor (1972, Michigan Tech Univ., Ph.D. dissertation). Kona Dolomite comprises (ascending) gray argillite, lower quartzite, cherty dolomite, gray-green argillite, middle quartzite, /Big Cusp algal dolomite member, Valley member, color-banded dolomite, upper quartzite, Ragged Hills member, and upper dolomite. Ragged Hills member not described.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


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