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Geologic Unit: Reany Creek

Usage:

Reany Creek Formation (MI*)


Geologic age:

Late Archean*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: line of exposures extending north from Dead River Storage Basin, west of east boundary of sec. 7, T. 48 N., R. 26 W., Marquette Co., MI (Puffett, 1969).


AAPG geologic province:

Lake Superior region*
Wisconsin arch*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).