Usage:
Squaw Bay Limestone (MI*)
[NOTE: The Squaw Bay Limestone is in the process of being formally renamed Birdsong Bay Limestone (RESERVED) in accordance with the Department of the Interior's Secretarial Order 3404, discontinuing use of derogatory term squaw.]
Geologic age:
Middle and Late Devonian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: Squaw Bay [now Birdsong Bay] shoreline of Partridge Point, in center of south line of sec. 11, T. 30 N., R. 8 E., [Alpena 7.5-min quadrangle], Alpena Co., northeastern MI (Warthin and Cooper, 1935).
[The geographic feature Squaw Bay, from which the geologic name was taken (Warthin and Cooper, 1935), was renamed Birdsong Bay (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, September 2022, USGS GNIS FeatureID 638662) in accordance with the Department of the Interior's Secretarial Order 3404.]
AAPG geologic province:
Michigan basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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