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  • Usage in publication:
    • Buckingham limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
    • Marl
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • South Florida province
Publication:

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


Summary:

Pg. 11-16, and 1938 [abs.], GSA Bull., v. 49, no. 12 pt. 2, p. 1916. Buckingham limestone. Proposed for limestone cropping out in Lee County, Florida. Believed to be uppermost Miocene. Underlies Tamiami limestone. Fossils listed.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 514).


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  • Usage in publication:
    • Buckingham limestone†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Florida platform
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.


Summary:

Pg. 823. †Buckingham limestone abandoned. Tamiami formation as herein defined includes Buckingham limestone of Mansfield.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 514).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Buckingham Limestone Member
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Florida platform
Publication:

DuBar, J.R., 1991, Florida Peninsula, IN DuBar, J.R., and others, Quaternary geology of the Gulf of Mexico coastal plain, Chapter 19, OF 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.


Summary:

Sarasota Formation of Tamiami Group (rank raised) is subdivided into Myakka Member, Buckingham Limestone Member, Ochopee Limestone Member, Forty Mile Bend Member, and a coral/mollusk biohermal facies. Buckingham is described as a soft, light gray calcilutite.

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


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