Usage:
Palms Formation of Menominee Group of Marquette Range Supergroup (recognized locally in MI*,WI*)
Palms Quartzite of Menominee Group of Marquette Range Supergroup (recognized locally in MI,WI)
Notable exposures in Gogebic iron range, Northern Peninsula.
Geologic age:
Paleoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures just south of Palms Mine, on Palms property, near Bessemer, Northern Peninsula, northwestern MI (Van Hise, 1901).
AAPG geologic province:
Lake Superior region*
Wisconsin arch*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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