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Geologic Unit: Hialeah
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Hialeah Group
  • Modifications:
    • First used
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Marl
    • Sand
    • Coquina
    • Limestone
  • 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:

Hialeah Group (DuBar, in press) is composed of the late Pleistocene Fort Thompson Formation, Anastasia Formation, Miami Limestone, and Key Largo Limestone. Formations intergrade and interfinger, especially in southeastern FL. Fort Thompson is further divided into the Okaloacoochee and Coffee Mill Hammock Members. Hialeah unconformably overlies the Port Charlotte Group (first used) and unconformably underlies the Lake Flirt Formation and correlative deposits.

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


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