Wisconsin Geological Localities

Steven Dutch, Professor Emeritus, Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay

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Here you can find site descriptions, locality maps and photos of sites of geologic interest in Wisconsin

General Geographic Interest

• Half Way to the Pole
• Point of Beginning
• Timms Hill

Recent and Holocene Features

• Bay Beach and Renard Isle

Door Peninsula

• Niagara Escarpment
• Bayshore County Park
• Red Banks
• Cave Point
• Brussels Hill
• Namur Drumlin
• Wequiock Falls
• Tornado Memorial Park

Pleistocene of Northeast Wisconsin

• Bay Beach and Renard Isle
• Oneida Twin Ridges
• Drumlins on Highway 29
• Moraines on Highway 29 near Wittenberg
• Dyckesville Outlet
• Shorelines Near Dyckesville
• Rosiere Esker
• Bellevue Outlet
• Birch Creek Embayment
• Pound Esker
• Williams Farm: Glacial Lake Oconto
• Ice front at Suring
• Lake Wisconsin Shoreline on Highway 21 near Coloma

Paleozoic of Northeast Wisconsin

• Niagara Escarpment
• High Cliff State Park
• Mosquito Hill
• Scray Hill
• Devils River
• Cato Falls
• Lower Manitowoc River
• Grimes
• Escarpment at County W
• Duck Creek Quarries
• Pamperin Park
• Seymour
• Lime Kiln Road: Fort Atkinson Dolomite
• Kittel Falls
• Fonferek Glen
• Quarry Park, Oneida
• Baird Creek Park Way
• Cambrian Outcrops on Highway 64
• Wequiock Falls
• Sandstone Rapids and Dam
• Dip Slope, West Shore Green Bay

Precambrian of Northeast Wisconsin

• Butler Rock
• Chute Pond County Park
• Bagley Rapids
• MacAuley Granite Gneiss at Bear Paw Road
• High Falls Dam
• Baldwin Conglomerate
• Thunder Mountain
• Niagara Fault
• McCaslin Mountain

Central Wisconsin

• Wisconsin Dells
• Wausau Syenite
• Biron Dam
• Conants Rapids
• The Portage Canal
• Waupaca Precambrian Outcrops
• Waupaca Adamellite Quarry
• Waupaca: County K Outcrops
• Ladoga Drumlin

Castellated Mounds of Central Wisconsin

• Roche A Cri
• Ship Rock
• Rabbit Rock
• Preston Cliffs
• Friendship Mound
• Neillsville Mounds
• Petenwell Rock
• Owens Rock

Astroblemes and Cryptoexplosion Structures

• Rock Elm Disturbance
• Glovers Bluff Disturbance
• Pepin Disturbance

"Baraboo Interval" Quartzites and Igneous Rocks

• Rib Mountain
• Mosinee Hill
• Cactus Rock
• Montello Granite
• Berlin Quarry
• Redgranite Quarry
• Necedah Mound
• Lohrville
• Powers Bluff
• Hamilton Mound
• Utley Rhyolite

Baraboo Syncline

• Devils Lake
• Rock Springs-Upper Narrows
• Baxter Hollow
• Parfrey's Glen

Western Wisconsin

• Wyalusing
• Pike's Peak (Wyalusing from the Iowa side)
• Natural Bridge State Park
• Granddad Bluff
• Great River Bluffs, Minnesota

Northwest Wisconsin

• Interstate Park
• Apostle Islands
• Amnicon Falls

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Created 19 May 1999, Last Update 15 Jan 2020