Geologic Unit: Holy Hill

Usage:

Holy Hill Formation (WI)

Subunits:

(alphabetical) --all in WI: Horicon Member, Keene Member, Liberty Grove Member, New Berlin Member, Waubeka Member.

Geologic age:

Quaternary (Pleistocene)

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

Type section: in pit at Slinger Speedway, Slinger, WI, north of County Trunk Highway AA, about 1.3 mi (2 km) north-northeast of junction of WI State Highways 60 and 144, in SE/4 SE/4 SW/4 sec. 8, T. 10 N., R. 19 E., [approx. Lat. 43 deg. 20 min. 25 sec. N., Long. 88 deg. 16 min. 38 sec. W.], Hartford East 7.5-min quadrangle, Washington Co., eastern WI (Mickelson and Syverson, 1997; see also Syverson and others, 2011).
Named from Holy Hill, a large hill with a church at crest of Kettle moraine [a few mi south of type section], in sec. 14, T. 9 N., R. 18 E., [Merton 7.5-min quadrangle], Washington Co., eastern WI; name credited to Kent M. Syverson and David M. Mickelson (Mickelson and Syverson, 1997; see also Syverson and others, 2011).
Reference sections = type sections of constituent members (alphabetical) Horicon, Keene, Liberty Grove, New Berlin, and Waubeka (Syverson and others, 2011; see entries under constituent members).

AAPG geologic province:

Wisconsin arch