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  • Usage in publication:
    • Fort Pierce formation
  • Modifications:
    • First used
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Florida platform
Publication:

Puri, H.S., and Vernon, R.O., 1964, Summary of the geology Florida and a guidebook to the classic exposures: Florida Geological Survey Special Publication, no. 5, 312 p., (Revised)


Summary:

Name applied to Upper Jurassic(?) or Lower Cretaceous(?) unit. Name credited to Applin and Applin (in press).

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Fort Pierce Formation*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
    • Dolomite
    • Limestone
    • Anhydrite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Florida platform
Publication:

Applin, P.L., and Applin, E.R., 1965, The Comanche Series and associated rocks in the subsurface of central and south Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 447, 84 p. [Available online from the USGS PubsWarehouse: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/pp/pp447]


Summary:

Fort Pierce Formation formally proposed. Underlies beds of early (Comanche) age and is oldest sedimentary stratigraphic unit found so far by drilling in south FL. Occurs at depths of 10,460 to 12,680 ft in type well. Age is Late Jurassic(?) or Early Cretaceous(?). [According to authors, unit contains fusulinids which are considered by some to be Late Jurassic and by others to be Early Cretaceous. It was their intent to indicate that the Fort Pierce is either Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous, or both Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous. Age would have been better stated as Late Jurassic and (or) Early Cretaceous.]

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Fort Pierce Formation*
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Florida platform
Publication:

Klitgord, K.D., Popenoe, Peter, and Schouten, Hans, 1984, Florida; a Jurassic transform plate boundary: Journal of Geophysical Research, B, Solid Earth and Planets, v. 89, no. 9, p. 7753-7772.


Summary:

Fort Pierce Formation is Early Cretaceous [author follows age of Attilio and Blake (1983, Oil and Gas Journal, v. 81, no. 45, p. 148-153, Nov. 7), who place Fort Pierce in Coahuilan Provincial Series--oral communication, K.D. Klitgord to E.D. Koozmin, 11/93.] Geographically extended from mainland Florida into offshore shelf area of Gulf of Mexico of Florida and Alabama.

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


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