Publications Catalog

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.

Located in the south-central portion of the state, new geologic mapping of the frequently-visited Baraboo Hills has resulted in a revision of the stratigraphy of the Precambrian-aged bedrock. The Baraboo Quartzite is now divided into four informal members, and the maximum depositional age for the Baraboo Quartzite is 1714±17 million years old. These...

Three-dimensional bedrock mapping of Grant County at a scale of 1:100,000 provides new baseline information on the distribution of geologic units. Grant County contains Paleozoic bedrock units ranging in age from Silurian to Cambrian. Gentle folds and small faults deform the Paleozoic sequence and were mapped based on structure contours of the base of the...

The Quaternary geologic map of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, provides details about the surficial sediment and landscapes that were formed largely in the footprint of the Laurentide Ice Sheet's southern Green Bay Lobe during the late Wisconsin Glaciation (ca. 20,000 years before present). These landscapes include lowlands underlain by glacial and...

The Quaternary geology of Fond du Lac County consists of glacial deposits and landforms dating to the last part of the Wisconsin Glaciation (ca. 20,000 to 12,000 yr BP) and nonglacial deposits and landforms of Holocene age (11,700 yr BP to present). Glacial till and meltwater sediment were deposited by the Green Bay and Lake Michigan Lobes of the...

Columbia, Green Lake, and Marquette Counties were glaciated during the last ice age, and large areas were inundated with water from proglacial lakes and large meltwater rivers that occupied the valleys of the existing Wisconsin and Fox Rivers. These processes resulted in rolling upland hills, including drumlins punctuated by low-lying areas dominated by...