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, issued on November 19, 2021, that identifies the term “squaw” as derogatory.]
Geologic age:
Middle and Late Devonian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: Squaw Bay (now called 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).
AAPG geologic province:
Michigan basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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