Usage:
Munising Formation (MI*)
Munising Formation of Lake Superior Group (MI)
Munising Group (MI)
Munising Group of Potsdam Supergroup (IN-subsurface)
Subunits:
Eau Glaire (MI,IN), Galesville (MI,IN), Ironton (IN), Fanconia Formation (MI,IN), and Davis Formation (IN) of Munising Group; Chapel Rock (MI*) and Miners Castle (MI*), Members of Munising Formation; Mount Simon Sandstone, Eau Claire, Dresbach Sandstone, and Franconia Sandstone Members of the Munising Formation (MI)
Geologic age:
Late Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures in bluffs back of Munising, Alger Co., northern MI (Lane and Seaman, 1907).
AAPG geologic province:
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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