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Geologic Unit: Eagle Center

Usage:

Eagle Center Member of Little Cedar Formation of Cedar Valley Group (IA)


Geologic age:

late Middle Devonian (Givetian)


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

Waterloo South quarry, in SW/4 NW/4 NW/4 sec. 18, T. 87 N., R. 12 W., Black Hawk Co., IA (Witzke and others, 1988).


AAPG geologic province:

Iowa shelf


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