Usage:
Rowley Creek Slate (WI)
Geologic age:
Paleoproterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Not stated.] Occurs in two small areas in the middle of the Baraboo syncline, east of the city of Baraboo, Sauk Co., south-central WI. Named from Rowley Creek, on the county line east of the city of Baraboo (Leith, 1935).
AAPG geologic province:
Wisconsin arch
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