Usage:
Wonewoc Formation of Elk Mound Group (WI)
Wonewoc Formation (IA)
Subunits:
(ascending) Galesville and Ironton Members
Geologic age:
Late Cambrian (Dresbachian to Franconian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (composite): taken from bluffs in and around village of Wonewoc, located in secs. 26 and 35, T. 14 N., R. 2 E., Juneau Co., WI. Reference exposures in quarry at north city limit (Ostrom, 1966).
AAPG geologic province:
Wisconsin arch
Iowa shelf
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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