Usage:
Kona Dolomite of Chocolay Group of Marquette Range Supergroup (MI*-local)
Notable exposures in Marquette Range, Northern Peninsula.
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all informal, in MI: /Big Cusp algal dolomite member, Ragged Hills member, Valley member.
Geologic age:
Paleoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from the Kona Hills, rising from the east shore of Goose Lake, in secs. 12 and 13, T. 47 N., R. 26 W., along border of Sands and Palmer 7.5-min quadrangles, Marquette Co., Northern Peninsula, northwestern MI (Van Hise and Bayley, 1895; Gair and Thaden, 1968).
AAPG geologic province:
Lake Superior region*
Michigan basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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