Usage:
Hayton Formation (WI)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in WI: Cato Falls Member, High Cliff Member.
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene; Wisconsinan)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (=Cato Falls Member type section): exposures in Valders Stone and Marble quarry, at Valders, south of County Trunk Highway JJ, about 1 mi (1.6 km) northeast of juntion of WI Highway 148 and U.S. Highway 151, in NW/4 NE/4 and NE/4 NW/4 sec. 32, T. 19 N., R. 22 E., [approx. Lat. 44 deg. 04 min. 39 sec. N., Long. 87 deg. 53 min. 26 sec. W.], Valders 7.5-min quadrangle, Manitowoc Co., eastern WI (Syverson and others, 2011).
Named from unincorporated village of Hayton, [about 12 mi west-southwest of type section, bdry. btw. secs. 16 and 21, T. 18 N., R. 20 E., southwestern Potter 7.5-min quadrangle, east-central Calumet Co., eastern WI; name credited to Betty J. Socha (Syverson and others, 2011).
Reference section (=High Cliff Member type section): exposure in quarry, [about 0.25 mi west of Sherwood and 1.5+/- mi east of Lake Winnebago], in SW/4 SE/4 sec. 30, T. 20 N., R. 19 E., [approx. Lat. 44 deg. 10 min. 14 sec. N., Long. 88 deg. 16 min. 14 sec. W.], Sherwood 7.5-min quadrangle, Calumet Co., eastern WI (Syverson and others, 2011).
[Additional locality information from USGS historical topographic map collection TopoView, USGS GNIS database, and Wisconsin Highways, www.wisconsinhighways.org; accessed on June 9, 2018.]
AAPG geologic province:
Wisconsin arch
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