- Usage in publication:
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- Holey Land Unit
- Modifications:
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- First used
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Florida platform
Summary:
Basal 2 m of middle Pleistocene Bermont Formation has been informally named the Holey Land Unit by local paleontologists for wildlife refuge adjacent to type locality. (Refuge is site of numerous shallow craters formed by WWII bombing practice.) Unit is extremely fossiliferous indurated limestone. Eight new gastropods are described here.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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