Usage:
No current usage.
(Sediments of †Chetek Member of Copper Falls Formation (WI) reallocated to unnamed part of Copper Falls Formation. See Copper Falls.)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene; Wisconsinan)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: gravel pit on east side of County Trunk Highway SS near Cameron, WI, in SW/4 SE/4 sec. 28, T. 34 N., R. 11 W., Rice Lake South 7.5-min quadrangle, Barron Co., northwestern WI (Attig and others, 1988).
Named from village of Chetek, Chetek 7.5-min quadrangle, Barron Co., northwestern WI, [about 8 mi southeast of type section]; name credited to Mark D. Johnson (Attig and others, 1988).
Reference section (stream sediment): gravel pit, in SE/4 sec. 23, T. 35 N., R. 11 W., Rice Lake North and Rice Lake South 7.5-quadrangles, Barron Co., northwestern WI (Attig and others, 1988).
AAPG geologic province:
Wisconsin arch
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