Usage:
Huronian Series
A provincial chronostratigraphic term.
Geologic age:
middle Precambrian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name: (See Canadian Lexicon)
Not stated. Named from exposures on shores of Lake Huron, Great Lakes region, Canada.
AAPG geologic province:
Lake Superior region
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).