Usage:
Tyler Formation of Baraga Group of Marquette Range Supergroup (recognized locally in MI*,WI*)
Tyler Slate of Baraga Group of Marquette Range Supergroup (recognized locally in MI*,WI*)
Subunits:
Pabst Member (MI,WI).
Geologic age:
Paleoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures at Tylers Fork in Penokee-Gogebic district, Iron Co., WI (Van Hise, 1901).
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.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).