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Geologic Unit: Thunder Woman

Usage:

Thunder Woman Shale Member of Lithograph City Formation of Cedar Valley Group (IA)


Geologic age:

early Late Devonian (Frasnian)


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

Yokum quarry, 1.4 km east of Thunder Woman County Park, in NW/4 SW/4 sec. 4, T. 90 N., R. 14 W., Black Hawk Co., IA (Bunker and others, 1986; Witzke and others, 1988).


AAPG geologic province:

Iowa shelf


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