Usage:
Puritan Quartz Monzonite (MI*,WI*)
Geologic age:
Precambrian (Neoarchean; late Archean)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Type locality]: extensive exposures near the site of the old Puritan Mine, south of community of Puritan, in SW/4 sec. 17 and NW/4 sec. 20, T. 47 N., R. 46 W., [Bessemer 7.5-min quadrangle], western Gogebic Co., Northern Peninsula, northwestern MI (Schmidt, 1976).
AAPG geologic province:
Lake Superior region*
Wisconsin arch*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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