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  • Usage in publication:
    • Ochopee Limestone Member
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • South Florida province
Publication:

Hunter, M.E., 1968, Molluscan guide fossils in late Miocene sediments of southern Florida: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 18, p. 439-450.


Summary:

Ochopee Limestone Member of Tamiami Formation named in southern FL. Unit is 9 m of white fossiliferous limestone at type section. Overlies Buckingham Limestone Member.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Ochopee 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) subdivided into Myakka, Buckingham Limestone, Ochopee Limestone, Forty Mile Bend Members and coral/mollusk biohermal facies. Ochopee Limestone Member described as a light gray calcarenite.

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


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