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  • Usage in publication:
    • Big Cypress Group
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
    • Dolomite
    • Anhydrite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • South Florida province
Publication:

Winston, G.O., 1971, The Dollar Bay Formation of Lower Cretaceous (Fredericksburg) age in South Florida; its stratigraphic and petroleum possibilities: Florida Geological Survey Special Publication, no. 15, 99 p.


Summary:

Named for Big Cypress Swamp near type section. Formerly called Fredericksburg Group by other workers and the petroleum industry. Type section is Humble No. 1 Collier Corp. well, sec. 27, T50S, R26E, Collier Co., FL , in southern Florida, interval from 9850 to 11,208 ft. Consists of limestone, dolomite, and anhydrite. Includes the Dollar Bay Formation (named in this report), and an underlying unnamed sequence of rocks. Underlies unnamed Washita beds; overlies unnamed Trinity beds. Age is Early Cretaceous (middle Albian, Fredericksburg).

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Big Cypress Group*
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • South Florida province
Publication:

Reinhardt, Juergen, 1992, Overview of the Cretaceous in the Gulf Coastal Plain, IN Zullo, V.A., Harris, W.B., and Price, Van, Jr., eds., Savannah River region; transition between the Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains; proceedings of the second Bald Head Island conference on coastal plains geology: University of North Carolina-Wilmington [Special Publication], Hilton Head Island, SC, November 6-11, 1990, no. 2, p. 7-18.


Summary:

Shown (undivided) in the subsurface of the eastern Gulf Coastal Plain. Age is Early Cretaceous (middle and late Albian, Fredericksburgian).

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Big Cypress Group*
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Florida platform
Publication:

Pollastro, R.M., and Viger, R.J., 1998, Maps showing hydrocarbon plays of the Florida Peninsula, U.S. Geological Survey petroleum province 50: U.S. Geological Survey Oil and Gas Investigations Map, OM-226, 1 sheet, 7 p., scale 1:1,000,000


Summary:

Early Cretaceous Big Cypress Group, including its Marco Junction, Gordon Pass, and Dollar Bay Formations, used following Faulkner and Applegate (1986, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 36, p. 83-96) and Lloyd (1991, Florida Geological Survey Information Circular 107, p. 1-62).

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


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