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  • Usage in publication:
    • Pine Key Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • South Florida province
Publication:

Meyerhoff, A.A., and Hatten, C.W., 1974, Bahamas salient of North America; tectonic framework, stratigraphy, and petroleum potential: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 58, no. 6, pt. 2 of 2, p. 1201-1239. [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Named for Big Pine Key, FL. Formerly called Late Cretaceous chalk. Type locality is Gulf Oil Corp. State of Florida-1, Lease 373, Big Pine Key, sec. 2, T67S, R29E, Monroe Co., FL, known as the Big Pine Key well. Consists of alternate soft and hard, white to cream-white limestone and chalky limestone containing many porous zones and a predominantly pelagic microfauna. Contains marlstone in places. Well-developed on Jordan Knoll. Unconformably underlies Cedar Keys Formation; unconformably overlies the Naples Bay Group of the Marquesas Supergroup. Report includes correlation chart. Age is Late Cretaceous (late Cenomanian through Maastrichtian).

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Pine Key Formation*
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • South Florida province
Publication:

Reinhardt, Juergen, 1992, Overview of the Cretaceous in the Gulf Coastal Plain, IN Zullo, V.A., Harris, W.B., and Price, Van, Jr., eds., Savannah River region; transition between the Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains; proceedings of the second Bald Head Island conference on coastal plains geology: University of North Carolina-Wilmington [Special Publication], Hilton Head Island, SC, November 6-11, 1990, no. 2, p. 7-18.


Summary:

Shown in the subsurface of the eastern Gulf Coastal Plain. Age is Late Cretaceous.

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


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