GEOLEX

Summary of Citation: Tamiami

Publication:
Mansfield, W.C., 1939, Notes on the upper Tertiary and Pleistocene
   mollusks of peninsular Florida: Florida Geological Survey
   Bulletin, no. 18, 75 p.

Usage in Publication:
Tamiami limestone

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Named	Florida platform	Limestone

Summary:
Name Tamiami proposed for a limestone penetrated in digging shallow ditches to form roadbed of Tamiami Trail over a distance of about 34 mi in Collier and Monroe Cos. Consists mainly of dirty-white to gray rather hard porous nonoolitic limestone with inclusions of clear quartz grains. Underlies Buckingham limestone (named). Tentatively placed at base of Pliocene below Caloosahatchee.

Summary of Citation: Tamiami

Publication:
Parker, G.G. and Cooke, C.W., 1944, Late Cenozoic geology of
   southern Florida, with a discussion of the ground water:
   Florida Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 27, 119 p.

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Tamiami formation*

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Revised	Florida platform

Summary:
Tamiami formation was first noted by Sanford (1909) who named it Lostmans River limestone. Cooke and Mossom (1929, Florida Geol. Survey 20th Ann. Rept) rejected Lostmans River limestone as valid formation and divided its rocks between Miami oolite on the south and Caloosahatchee marl on the north. Mansfield's (1939) Tamiami limestone is same limestone that Cook and Mossom correlated with Caloosahatchee marl. Place name Tamiami is preferred to Lostmans River because exposures on Tamiami Trail are more accessible than those of Lostmans River area. Term limestone is not appropriate because formation generally contains too much sand. Formation is, in general, a wedge-shaped deposit that thickens toward southeast and east. Thickness about 15 ft on Tamiami Trail 40 mi west of Miami; about 100 ft near shore of Biscayne Bay at Silver Bluff.

Summary of Citation: Tamiami

Publication:
Parker, G.G., 1951, Geologic and hydrologic factors in the
   perennial yield of the Biscayne aquifer: American Water Works
   Association Journal, v. 43, no. 10, p. 817-835

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Tamiami formation*

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Age modified Revised	Florida platform

Summary:
Tamiami formation is of upper Miocene age and, as here indicated, includes all deposits of that age in FL. As thus defined, includes Tamiami limestone and Buckingham limestone of Mansfield and part of Hawthorn formation of Parker and Cooke (1944).

Summary of Citation: Tamiami

Publication:
Hunter, M.E., 1968, Molluscan guide fossils in late Miocene
   sediments of southern Florida: Gulf Coast Association of
   Geological Societies Transactions, v. 18, p. 439-450

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Tamiami formation

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Revised	Florida platform

Summary:
Upper Miocene Tamiami formation is subdivided into several new and revised members. Ascending, these are the Bayshore clay member (new), Murdock Station member (new), Buckingham limestone member (revised), Pinecrest sand member (revised), and Ochopee limestone member (new). [Though units are lower cased, author's intent interpreted as formal naming of members.]

Summary of Citation: Tamiami

Publication:
Brooks, H.K., 1981, Geologic map of Florida: Florida Cooperative
   Extension Service, University of Florida Center for Environmental
   and Natural Resources, scale 1:500,000

Usage in Publication:
Tamiami Formation

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Revised	Florida platform

Summary:
Tamiami stratigraphically restricted. La Belle Clay Member raised in rank to La Belle Formation and replaces lower part of Tamiami Formation.

Summary of Citation: Tamiami

Publication:
Hazel, J.E., 1983, Age and correlation of the Yorktown (Pliocene)
   and Croatan (Pliocene and Pleistocene) Formations at the Lee
   Creek, North Carolina, open pit mine, IN Ray, C.E., ed.,
   Geology and paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina,
   I: Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, no. 53, p.
   81-200

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Tamiami Formation*

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Age modified	Florida platform

Summary:
Age changed to early Pliocene on basis of correlation with Yorktown Formation of NC.

Summary of Citation: Tamiami

Publication:
Missimer, T.M., 1990, Stratigraphic correlation of sediment
   facies within the Tamiami Formation of southwest Florida, IN
   Allmon, W.D., and Scott, T.M., eds., Plio-Pleistocene
   stratigraphy and paleontology of South Florida: Southeastern
   Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook, no. 31, 1990 Field
   Excursion, December 7-8, 1990, [12 unnumbered pages]

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Tamiami Formation

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Overview	Florida platform

Summary:
"Both the top and the bottom of the Tamiami, as well as the age, have been in dispute for the past 40 years." The top of the unit can be any one of a number of different lithologies, including limestone, sandstone, quartz sand, marl, shell beds, or clay. It may underlie the Caloosahatchee or the Fort Thompson Formation. The definition of the Hawthorn is used to establish the base of the Tamiami. There are at least 9 facies that may be mapped on the basis of dominant lithology in southwest FL: the Pinecrest Sand Member, the unnamed limestone facies, the Golden Gate Reef Member (of Meeder, 1987), the Bonita Springs Marl Member (of Missimer, 1984), the HYOTISSA facies, the Ochopee Limestone Member, the sand facies, the Buckingham Limestone Member, and the tan clay and sand facies. Only 1 to 4 of these occur in a vertical stratigraphic section at any given locality. The Buckingham is the lowermost facies and is probably equivalent in age to the clay and sand facies.

Summary of Citation: Tamiami

Publication:
Lyons, W.G., 1991, Post-Miocene species of Latirus Montfort,
   1810 (Mollusca: Fasciolariidae) of southern Florida, with a
   review of regional marine biostratigraphy: Florida Museum of
   Natural History, Biological Sciences Bulletin, v. 35, no. 3,
   p. 131-208

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Tamiami Formation

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Age modified Overview

Summary:
Author follows interpretation of Hunter (1968) and DuBar (1974) who considered the Pinecrest beds and Buckingham limestone to be facies of the upper Tamiami. LATIRUS of middle Pliocene age reported from the Tamiami are then from the Pinecrest facies (3.5-3.0 m.y.). Author allows that more work is needed to accurately define the relationships among the Buckingham, Tamiami, and Pinecrest units.

Summary of Citation: Tamiami

Publication:
DuBar, J.R., 1991, Florida Peninsula, IN DuBar, J.R., and others,
   Quaternary geology of the Gulf of Mexico coastal plain,
   Chapter 19, IN Morrison, R.B., ed., Quaternary nonglacial
   geology; conterminous United States: Geological Society of
   America, The Geology of North America, The Decade of North
   American Geology (DNAG), v. K-2, p. 595-604

Usage in Publication:
Tamiami Group

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Revised	Florida platform

Summary:
Middle or late Pliocene Tamiami Group as used by DuBar and others (in press) is subdivided into lower Murdock Station Formation and upper Sarasota Formation, which includes the Forty Mile Bend, Ochopee Limestone, Buckingham Limestone and Myakka Members. Group unconformably overlies undifferentiated Miocene Hawthorne Group and unconformably underlies early and middle Pleistocene Port Charlotte Group (new). Along the west coast of FL, the Tamiami extends northward from the Caloosahatchee River to Pasco Co., and probably to southwestern Hernando Co. North of Indian River Co., along the east coast of FL, information is scanty. A fossiliferous limestone beneath Trail Ridge in northern Baker Co. [near the GA border] may represent a nearshore brackish-water facies of the Tamiami.

Summary of Citation: Tamiami

Publication:
Cronin, T.M., 1991, Pliocene shallow water paleoceanography of
   the North Atlantic Ocean based on marine ostracodes: Quaternary
   Science Reviews, v. 10, p. 175-188

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Tamiami Formation*

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Biostratigraphic dating	South Florida province

Summary:
Pinecrest Beds of peninsular Florida were assigned a middle to late Pliocene age by DuBar (1974) (who referred to these rocks as the Pinecrest Sand Member of the Tamiami Formation). Hazel (1977 and personal commun., 1990) dated the uppermost beds of the Tamiami and the overlying Pinecrest Beds as early and middle Pliocene based on zone 20 planktonic foraminifers and ORIONINA VAUGHANI and PARACYTHERIDEA MUCRA ostracode assemblage zones. Correlation chart in report shows Tamiami as early Pliocene.

Summary of Citation: Tamiami

Publication:
Missimer, T.M., 1993, Pliocene stratigraphy of southern Florida;
   unresolved issues of facies correlation in time, IN Zullo,
   V.A., and others, The Neogene of Florida and adjacent regions;
   proceedings of the third Bald Head Island conference on
   coastal plains geology: Florida Geological Survey Special
   Publication, no. 37, Hilton Head Island, SC, November 4-8,
   1992, p. 33-42

Usage in Publication:
Tamiami Formation

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Overview	Florida platform

Summary:
In this report there are four named formations included within Pliocene time in southern FL, including the lower parts of the Caloosahatchee and Anastasia Formations, the Tamiami Formation, and the Peace River Formation of the Hawthorn Group. All are separated from each other and from younger and older units by regional unconformities. Age of the Tamiami extends from 4.7 Ma to 2.8 Ma based on global sea level curve of Vail and others (1977), age dates of Jones and others (1991), and stratigraphic relationships. It is the primary Pliocene formation in southern FL. Correlation of the nine or more defined members of the Tamiami is a problem. There are some distinct disconformities observed between some of the members or facies. At several locations, the Buckingham Limestone Member is separated from overlying units by a disconformity. In southern Lee Co. and northern Collier Co., the Bonita Springs Marl Member (Missimer, in press(?)) separates the Pinecrest from the Ochopee. Fig. 3 illustrates the Bonita Springs below the Golden Gate Member(?) (Missimer, in press(?)).

Summary of Citation: Tamiami

Publication:
Zullo, V.A. and Portell, R.W., 1993, Paleobiogeography of the
   late Cenozoic barnacle fauna of Florida, IN Zullo, V.A., and
   others, The Neogene of Florida and adjacent regions; proceedings
   of the third Bald Head Island conference on coastal plains
   geology: Florida Geological Survey Special Publication, no.
   37, Hilton Head Island, SC, November 4-8, 1992, p. 47-53

Usage in Publication:
Tamiami Formation

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Overview	Florida platform

Summary:
The nomenclature of the Pliocene Tamiami Formation applied in this report evolved from the stratigraphic revisions of Hunter (1968) and those of Petuch (1982). Formation is divided into lower and upper parts. The lower part includes units 11 and 10 of Petuch and is equivalent to the Murdock Station Member of Hunter. The upper Tamiami includes Petuch's units 9 through 2 and is essentially equivalent to Hunter's Pinecrest Member. The upper Tamiami is further subdivided into lower and upper Pinecrest beds at an unconformity that is observed between units 4 and 3 in quarry exposures in Sarasota Co. The lower Tamiami and lower Pinecrest beds of the upper Tamiami of southern FL correlate with the Jackson Bluff Formation of the FL panhandle, and are assigned to the Coastal Onlap Cycle TB3.6 (Zullo and Harris, 1992). This cycle spans the Zanclean-Piacenzian boundary. The upper Pinecrest beds are assigned to the TB3.7 cycle and are Piacenzian in age.

Summary of Citation: Tamiami

Publication:
Willard, D.A., Cronin, T.M., Ishman, S.E. and Litwin, R.J.,
   1993, Terrestrial and marine records of climatic and
   environmental changes during the Pliocene of subtropical
   Florida: Geological Society of America, Geology, v. 21, no.
   8, p. 679-682

Usage in Publication:
Tamiami Formation*

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Biostratigraphic dating	Florida platform

Summary:
In the APAC Shell Pit (APAC) on the central-western coast of FL, Petuch (1982) delineated 12 informal units based on molluscan biofacies that are traceable throughout the area. Strata in this study are from Quality Aggregate Phase 6 Pit (QA6), APAC, and DeSoto No. 5 Pit, all of central-western coastal FL and range from early Pliocene to early Pleistocene age. Lowermost Pliocene unit, unit 11 of Petuch (1982), was collected at QA6; it is an ECPHORA and BALANUS biofacies and represents lower part of Tamiami Formation. It is equivalent in age to Sunken Meadow Member of Yorktown Formation of NC and VA. Tamiami also includes Pinecrest Beds. Unit 10, the lowest in Pinecrest Beds, is a MERCENARIA biofacies overlain unconformably by unit 8, which is a VERMICULARIA biofacies. Units 6 and 7 contain best-preserved and most diverse assemblages of fossils within Pinecrest Beds. Unit 7 is characterized by a mixed shell assemblage and unit 6 contains a mixture of HYOTISSA and other shells. Unit 3, a mytilid layer, unconformably overlies unit 6. Unit 2 is a HYOTISSA bed. All are part of Pinecrest Beds. Younger samples are tentatively assigned to the Caloosahatchee Formation.