Usage:
Sunset Creek Intrusive Complex (MI*-recognized locally in Gogebic iron range)
Geologic age:
Precambrian (Neoarchean; late Archean)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Type locality]: exposures in large bedrock hill, northeast of Sunset Creek and just east of Black River fault, in NW/4 NW/4 sec. 25, T. 47 N., R. 46 W., [Bessemer 7.5-min quadrangle], western Gogebic Co., northwestern MI (Schmidt, 1976).
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.
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