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Geologic Unit: Haven

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Haven Member of Kewaunee Formation (WI) considered same as Ozaukee Member of Kewaunee Formation. See Ozaukee.)


Geologic age:

Quaternary (Pleistocene; Wisconsinan)


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

Type section: nuclear power plant site in Lake Michigan bluff, in NW/4 NW/4 NE/4 sec. 22, T. 16 N., R. 23 E., Sheboygan North 7.5-min quadrangle, Sheboygan Co., eastern WI. Named from community of Haven [about 1 mi northwest of type section]; name credited to Larry J. Acomb and David M. Mickelson (Mickelson and others, 1984).


AAPG geologic province:

Wisconsin arch


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

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