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Geologic Unit: Wisconsinan

Usage:

Wisconsinan Stage of Pleistocene Series of Quaternary System*
Wisconsinan Age of Pleistocene Epoch of Quaternary Period*
Applied to time during which glacial-related sediments were deposited.


Subunits:

(ascending): Altonian*, Farmdalian*, Woodfordian*, Twocreekan*, and Valderan* Substages (Subages).


Geologic age:

Quaternary (Pleistocene)*


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

Type area: central IL to Door Peninsula, WI (Frye and others, 1968).


AAPG geologic province:

North America*


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 ([ ]).