Usage:
Felch 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 at Felch Mountain, Felch Mountain district, central Dickinson Co., Northern Peninsula, northwestern MI. Named from Felch Mountain (Van Hise and Leith, 1911).
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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