Rockhounding Wisconsin
by Robert Beard
Rockhounding Wisconsin
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| Acknowledgments |
vii
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| Introduction |
1
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| Rockhounding Basics |
4
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| Geology of Wisconsin |
12
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| Natural Resources |
17
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| How To Use This Guide |
23
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| Map Legend |
26
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| Eastern Ridges and Lowlands | |
| 1. Carol Beach Rocks |
28
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| 2. Southport Park Beach Concrete |
31
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| 3. Racine Quarry Silurian Fossils |
33
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| 4. Wind Point Beach Silurian Fossils |
37
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| 5. Estabrook Park Devonian Fossils |
39
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| 6. Grafton Quarry Silurian Fossils |
43
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| 7. Oakfield Ledge Quarry Crystal Vugs |
46
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| 8. Wequiock Falls Ordovician Fossils |
50
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| 9. Sturgeon Bay Silurian Coral Fossils |
53
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| 10. Sturgeon Bay Quarry Park Silurian Fossils |
56
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| 11. Kangaroo Lake Wayside Park Silurian Fossils |
59
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| Western Upland | |
| 12. Janesville Ordovician Fossils |
62
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| 13. Albany Glauconitic Sandstone |
65
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| 14. Monticello Sandstone |
67
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| 15. New Glarus Fossils |
69
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| 16. Mount Horeb Fossils |
71
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| 17. Mineral Point White Sandstone |
74
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| 18. Linden Lead Mine Calcite and Sphalerite |
77
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| 19. Linden Pyrite and Chalcopyrite |
80
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| 20. Mifflin Ordovician Fossils |
82
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| 21. Shullsburg Chert |
84
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| 22. New Diggings Calcite |
89
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| 23. Hazel Green Pyrite and Sphalerite |
92
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| 24. Platteville Fossils |
95
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| 25. Dickeyville Ordovician White Sandstone |
99
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| 26. Dickeyville Ordovician Fossils |
102
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| 27. Fennimore Ordovician Fossils |
104
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| 28. Millville Ordovician Fossils |
107
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| 29. Plum Creek Chert |
109
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| 30. Walker Hollow Road Chert |
112
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| 31. Boscobel Dolostone-Sandstone Quarry |
114
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| 32. Reads Creek Chert |
116
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| 33. Ableman's Gorge Quartz Crystals |
119
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| 34. Arcadia Sandstone Concretions |
123
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| 35. Hanley Road Vuggy Dolostone |
127
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| 36. Little Falls Dam Cambrian Fossils |
130
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| Central Plain | |
| 37. Redgranite Granite Quarry |
134
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| 38. Necedah Bluff Cambrian Sandstone and Quartz Crystals |
138
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| 39. Mauston Cambrian Sandstone Pseudo Fossils |
141
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| 40. Elroy Banded Cambrian Sandstones |
144
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| 41. Tunnel City Sandstone |
147
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| 42. Saddle Mound Trace Fossils and Sandstone |
149
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| 43. Black River Falls Iron Mine |
152
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| 44. Black River Falls Precambrian Granite |
155
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| 45. Wildcat Mound Giraffe Rock |
157
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| 46. Big Falls Hornblende Gneiss |
161
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| Northern Highland | |
| 47. Quiver Falls Precambrian Metabasalt |
166
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| 48. Pemebonwon River Precambrian Metabasalt |
169
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| 49. Long Slide Falls Precambrian Greenschist |
171
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| 50. Pembine Tonalite |
174
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| 51. Niagara Railroad Cut Precambrian Granite |
176
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| 52. Bradley Iron Mine Hematite and Iron Formation |
179
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| 53. Pine River Power Plant Slate |
181
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| 54. LaSalle Falls Black Tourmaline |
185
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| 55. Pine River Red Tourmaline |
188
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| 56. Florence Iron Mine |
192
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| 57. Mountain Precambrian Feldspar |
196
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| 58. Quartz Hill Precambrian Quartz Crystals |
200
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| 59. Irma Hill Cambrian Sandstone |
203
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| 60. Little Chicago Precambrian Metabasalt |
207
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| 61. Stettin Precambrian Moonstone |
210
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| 62. Stettin Precambrian Feldspar |
214
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| 63. Wausau Precambrian Gneisses and Granites |
216
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| 64. Rib Mountain Precambrian Quartzite |
219
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| 65. Rib Mountain Rotten Granite |
222
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| 66. Marathon Big Rib River Park Granite |
224
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| 67. Jim Falls Gneiss and Granite |
226
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| 68. Powell Precambrian Kyanite |
230
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| 69. Montreal Mine Hematite and Magnetite |
233
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| 70. Plummer Mine Magnetite and Hematite |
237
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| 71. Saxon Falls Zeolites in Precambrian Basalt |
240
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| 72. Mellen Rainbow Slaty Turbidites |
243
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| 73. Ballou Creek Iron Formation |
247
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| 74. Berkshire Iron Mine Hematite and Ruins |
250
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| 75. Mellen Spotted Cow Rock |
253
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| 76. Mellen Iron Formation |
255
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| 77. Kornstead Road Precambrian Gabbro Quarries |
257
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| 78. Mineral Lake Tower Iron Formation |
260
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| 79. Grandview Marble Quarry |
263
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| 80. Highway 27 Precambrian Basalt |
266
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| 81. South Range Precambrian Basalt |
269
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| Lake Superior Lowland | |
| 82. Amnicon River Beach |
274
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| 83. Saxon Harbor Beach |
277
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| 84. Little Girls Point Beach |
281
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| References Cited |
283
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| Site Index |
287
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| About the Author |
288
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