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Geologic Unit: Hazelwood

Usage:

Hazelwood Member of Mifflin Formation of Platteville Group (IL)


Geologic age:

Late Ordovician (Mohawkian; Turinian)


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

Type section: quarry on east side of Rock River, 3.5 mi north of Dixon, in SW/4 SW/4 NW/4 sec. 22, T. 22 N., R. 9 E., [approx. Lat. 41 deg. 52 min. 54 sec. N., Long. 89 deg. 27 min. 22 sec. W., Grand Detour 7.5-min quadrangle], Lee Co., northwestern IL (Templeton and Willman, 1963, Illinois Geol. Survey Bull., no. 89, p. 82; Willman and Buschbach, 1975, Illinois Geol. Survey Bull., no. 95, p. 47-87).
Named from Hazelwood School [in northwestern corner sec. 20, T. 22 N., R. 9 E., western edge Dixon 15-min quadrangle, 1918 ed.], Lee Co., northwestern IL, 2 mi west of type section (Templeton and Willman, 1963, p. 82; Willman and Buschbach, 1975).
Notable exposures in Dixon-Oregon area, northern IL (Templeton and Willman, 1952).


AAPG geologic province:

Wisconsin arch


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

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