Skip to Main Content
Skip Nav Destination
GEOREF RECORD

Boundary between Archean greenstone and gneiss terranes in northern Wisconsin and Michigan

P. K. Sims
Boundary between Archean greenstone and gneiss terranes in northern Wisconsin and Michigan (in Selected studies of Archean gneisses and lower Proterozoic rocks, southern Canadian Shield, G. B. Morey (editor) and Gilbert N. Hanson (editor))
Special Paper - Geological Society of America (1980) (182): 113-124

Abstract

New geological and geochronological data clearly establish that the two Archaean basement rock terrains recognized previously in Minnesota also occur in N Wisconsin and Michigan, on the E side of the midcontinent gravity high. Greenstone-granite complexes (about 2700 m.y. old) that are remarkably similar to those in the greenstone terrain of N Minnesota are present on the S side of the Gogebic Range in N Wisconsin and adjacent Michigan and in the N complex of the Marquette district. Migmatitic gneisses and amphibolite, which are similar to the high-grade rocks in the gneiss terrain in S Minnesota, are sporadically exposed S of the greenstone terrain and appear to compose the basement in most of N and central Wisconsin and N Michigan.


ISSN: 0072-1077
EISSN: 2331-219X
Coden: GSAPAZ
Serial Title: Special Paper - Geological Society of America
Serial Issue: 182
Title: Boundary between Archean greenstone and gneiss terranes in northern Wisconsin and Michigan
Title: Selected studies of Archean gneisses and lower Proterozoic rocks, southern Canadian Shield
Author(s): Sims, P. K.
Author(s): Morey, G. B.editor
Author(s): Hanson, Gilbert N.editor
Affiliation: U. S. Geol. Surv., Denver, CO, United States
Affiliation: Minn. Geol. Surv., Saint Paul, MN, United States
Pages: 113-124
Published: 1980
Text Language: English
Publisher: Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO, United States
ISBN: 0-8137-2182-2
References: 52
Accession Number: 1982-024804
Categories: Stratigraphy
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus. incl. geol. sketch maps
N44°00'00" - N48°00'00", W96°00'00" - W87°00'00"
Secondary Affiliation: State Univ. N.Y., USA, United States
Country of Publication: United States
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2017, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data from Mineralogical Abstracts, United KingdomTwickenhamUKUnited Kingdom
Update Code: 1982
Program Name: USGSOPNon-USGS publications with USGS authors
Close Modal

or Create an Account

Close Modal
Close Modal