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Geologic Unit: Engadine

Usage:

Engadine Dolomite (MI*)
Engadine Group (MI)


Subunits:

GROUP STATUS --all in MI: Rockview Dolostone, Rapson Creek Dolostone, and Bush Bay Dolostone.


Geologic age:

Silurian (Llandovery to Ludlow)


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

Exposures at and around Engadine, Mackinac Co., MI (Smith, 1916).


AAPG geologic province:

Michigan basin*


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

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

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).