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  • Usage in publication:
    • Florida formation
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Basin-and-Range province
Publication:

Flower, R.H., 1964, The Nautiloid Order Ellesmeroceratidae (Cephalopoda): New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Memoir, no. 12, __ p.


Summary:

zzzzzPg. 149. Florida formation of El Paso group [author does not capitalize rank terms; however, units are considered formal]. The Cassinian series of Flower (1957, New Mexico Bur. Mines and Mineral Res. Memoir, no. 2, p. 18) contains two formations (1) the Scenic Drive formation, consisting of basal sandy dolomite, sand-free dolomite, and 200 feet of thin-bedded limestones at El Paso (is essentially "B26" of Cloud and Barnes, 1946, Univ. Texas Bur. Econ. Geol. Pub., no. 4621); (2) the Florida formation, 35 feet thick, developed as dark calcarenites in the Florida Mountains (beds designated "C" by Cloud and Barnes). Present in New Mexico and Texas. Age is Early Ordovician (late Canadian; Cassinian). Canadian treated as a system in this report. Author states that his philosophy of nomenclature is contrary to "the present fashion of delimiting formations on lithology alone." The resulting proposed divisions of the El Paso Group are thus "a succession of strata and faunas."
Well developed in Florida Mountains.
[Misprint (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 1350, p. 262): should be Univ. Texas Bur. Econ. Geol. Pub., no. 4621.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 262); supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Florida Mountains Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Principal reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Basin-and-Range province
Publication:

LeMone, D.V., 1969, Cambrian-Ordovician in El Paso border region, IN Kottlowski, K.E., and LeMone, D.V., eds., Border stratigraphy symposium: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Circular, El Paso, TX, 44th annual meeting, AAAS Southwestern and Rocky Division, April 30, 1968, no. 104, p. 17-25.


Summary:

Pg. 22. Florida Mountains Formation of El Paso Group. [Is Florida Formation of Flower (1964); name preempted.] Consists of calcarenite limestone. Thickness 11 m. Present in New Mexico and Texas. Age is Early Ordovician.
Type locality: east-central Florida Mountains, in sec. 6, T. 26 S., R. 7 W., Luna Co., southwest NM.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1520, p.103).


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