Windrow Formation

{{Short description|Geologic formation in Minnesota}}

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| age = Cretaceous

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The Windrow Formation is a geologic formation in Minnesota named after Windrow Bluff on Fort McCoy, Monroe County, Wisconsin.{{cite web |url=https://stevedutch.net/geologywisconsin/geohist/wikwin.htm |title=Cretaceous "Windrow" Formation |first=Steven |last=Dutch |publisher=University of Wisconsin |date=14 January 2020}}{{cite journal |last1=Thwaites |first1=Fredrik T. |last2=Twenhofel |first2=William H. |author-link2=William Henry Twenhofel |date=1921 |title=Windrow Formation: an upland gravel formation of the Driftless and adjacent areas of the Upper Mississippi Valley |journal=Geological Society of America Bulletin |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=293–314 |doi=10.1130/GSAB-32-293 |bibcode=1921GSAB...32..293T |url=https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-abstract/32/2/293/2926/Windrow-formation-An-upland-gravel-formation-of?redirectedFrom=fulltext |url-access=subscription}} It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period.{{cite journal |title=Windrow Formation of Upper Mississippi Valley Region a Sedimentary and Stratigraphic Study |first=George W. |last=Andrews |journal=The Journal of Geology |volume=66 |issue=6 |date=November 1958 |pages=597–624 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |doi=10.1086/626544 |jstor=30056852|bibcode=1958JG.....66..597A |s2cid=129618662 }}