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  • Usage in publication:
    • Bee Branch limestone member
  • Modifications:
    • [Incidental mention]
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Florida platform
Publication:

DuBar, J.R., 1957, Age and stratigraphic relationships of the Caloosahatchee marl of Florida: Illinois Academy of Science Transactions, v. 50, p. 187-193.


Summary:

Pg. 192 (table 1). Bee Branch limestone member of Caloosahatchee marl. Table shows Bee Branch limestone as middle member of Caloosahatchee; underlies Ayers Landing member (new); overlies Fort Denaud member (new). [Age is Pleistocene.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 269).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Bee Branch limestone member
  • Modifications:
    • Principal reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
    • Marl
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Florida platform
Publication:

DuBar, J.R., 1958, Neogene stratigraphy of southwestern Florida: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 8, p. 129-155.


Summary:

Pg. 136 (fig. 4), 143-144. Bee Branch limestone member of Caloosahatchee marl. Relatively hard solution-riddled marine limestone or marl unit. Consists of two principal facies, one of which, represented at type locality, is a massive hard calcareous ledge-forming bed; the other is softer, less consolidated, more arenaceous, and more distinctly concretionary. Thickness a few inches to about 5 feet; averages 2.5 feet. Conformably overlies Fort Denaud member; conformably underlies the Ayers Landing member. Where erosion has been extensive, overlying beds may belong to either Fort Thompson or Pamlico formation, and contact is unconformable. [Age is Pleistocene.]
Type locality: along Caloosahatchee River near its confluence with tributary called Bee Branch, Hendry Co., southern FL.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 269).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Bee Branch member
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Florida platform
Publication:

DuBar, J.R., 1958, Stratigraphy and paleontology of the late Neogene strata of the Caloosahatchee River area of southern Florida: Florida Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 40, 267 p.


Summary:

Pg. 41 (fig. 7), 58-61. Bee Branch member of Caloosahatchee marl. Relatively hard solution-riddled marine limestone or marl unit of the Caloosahatchee marl. Overlies brackish-water marl (lower Caloosahatchee beds); underlies upper shell bed (upper Caloosahatchee shell bed). [Report does not use either Fort Denaud member or Ayers Landing marl member.] Age is Pleistocene.

Source: Publication; US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 269).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Bee Branch Member
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Florida platform
Publication:

DuBar, J.R., 1974, Summary of Neogene stratigraphy of southern Florida, IN Oaks, R.Q., Jr., and Du Bar, J.R., eds., Post-Miocene stratigraphy central and southern Atlantic Coastal Plain: Utah State University Press, p. 206-231.


Summary:

Age of the Bee Branch Member of the Caloosahatchee Formation in southern FL shown as early or middle Pleistocene, deposition having occurred more than 400,000 years ago.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


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