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Geologic Unit: Winslow

Usage:

Winslow Till Member of Glasford Formation (IL,WI?)
[?] Winslow Till (WI?)


Geologic age:

Quaternary
Pleistocene, middle
Illinoian


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

Informally named from Winslow, Stephenson Co., IL (Frye and others, 1969).
Type section: in roadcuts west of Winslow, in SW/4 SE/4 SW/4 sec. 21, T. 29 N., R. 6 E., Stephenson Co., IL (Willman and Frye, 1970).


AAPG geologic province:

Wisconsin arch


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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