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Geologic Unit: Curry

Usage:

[/?] Curry Iron-Bearing Member of Vulcan Iron-Formation of Menominee Group of Marquette Range Supergroup (MI*-local)
Notable exposures in Menominee Range, Northern Peninsula.


Geologic age:

Paleoproterozoic*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Exposures north of Curry Mine, Menominee district, [Dickinson Co.], Northern Peninsula, northwestern MI. Named from Curry Mine (Van Hise and Bayley, 1900).


AAPG geologic province:

Lake Superior region*
Wisconsin arch*


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

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

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