Usage:
Nashville Member of Copper Falls Formation (WI)
Geologic age:
Pleistocene (late Wisconsinan)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposures in gravel pit in drumlin, in SE/4 SW/4 SE/4 sec. 7, T. 35 N., R. 12 E., Nashville 7.5-min quadrangle, southwestern Forest Co., WI. Named from Nashville Twp. (Mickelson and others, 1984).
AAPG geologic province:
Wisconsin arch
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