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Geologic Unit: Hager

Usage:

/Hager Rhyolite Porphyry (WI)
/Hager Formation (WI*)

[Name preempted by Ordovician Hager Formation of Larson (1951) in MO.]


Geologic age:

Mesoproterozoic*


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

Not designated. Mapped in vicinity of McCaslin syncline in southeastern Forest, western Marinette, and northern Oconto Cos., northeastern WI (Read and Weis, 1962).


AAPG geologic province:

Wisconsin arch*
Lake Superior region*


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 ([ ]).