Usage:
Whiskers Creek Gneiss (MI*)
Geologic age:
Precambrian (Neoarchean; late Archean)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Type area]: outcrops near Anvil and Ramsay [in T. 47 N., R. 46 W., Bessemer 7.5-min quadrangle], Gogebic Co., Northern Peninsula, northwestern MI, and in area extending about 2 mi (3 km) southeast of Ironwood, including area along Whiskers Creek, in T. 46 N., R. 47 W., [Ironwood 7.5-min quadrangle], Gogebic Co., Northern Peninsula, northwestern MI. Named from exposures along Whiskers Creek (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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