Publications Catalog

Prepared for 47th Annual Tri-State Geology Conference, Black River Falls, Wisconsin.

Prepared for 29th Annual Meeting, Midwest Friends of the Pleistocene.

Brief technical description of Wisconsin’s geologic history, glacial phases and lobes, and correlation and distribution of Pleistocene units. Heavily illustrated.

Devils Lake State Park is a place of striking geologic contrasts, where some of the oldest rock exposed in southern Wisconsin lies next to some of the youngest geologic materials in the state. The purple rock (called Baraboo quartzite) in the walls of Devils Lake gorge is more than 1.7 billion years old; the glacially deposited ridges that block both ends...

Kewaunee County, at the southern end of the Door Peninsula, was overrun by glaciers many times. Author Lee Clayton describes the county's complex glacial geology, from the surface soil down to solid rock. The accompanying map shows the placement of glacial sediments as well as glacial and post-glacial stream and lake sediments.

Description of the geologic history of Dane County. The preface points out the significance of glacial landscape research at WGNHS over the past century. Many pictures and diagrams and a four-color map and cross sections show the striking differences between glaciated and unglaciated regions of the county. Map and cross sections are folded.