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Geologic Unit: Port Charlotte
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Port Charlotte Group
  • Modifications:
    • [Original reference]
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
    • Sand
    • Clay
  • 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:

Pg. 598 (fig. 8), 600. Port Charlotte Group of DuBar and others, 1989 [unpub. ms.] comprises early Pleistocene Caloosahatchee Formation of Dall [1887] and Nashua Formation of Matson and Clapp (1909), and medial Pleistocene Bermont Formation of DuBar (1974). Lies above Tamiami Group and below Hialeah Group.
Named from Port Charlotte, Charlotte Co., southern FL.
[Cited DuBar, J.R., DuBar, S.S., and Blackwelder, B.W., 1989, Revision of stratigraphic nomenclature of some Neogene/Pleistocene marine deposits of Florida: Inst. for Tertiary-Quaternary Stud., Ter-Qua Symp. Ser., v. 2, Nebraska Acad. Sci., in press (ca. 2009, manuscript remains unpublished).]
[This is all there is about this name.]

Source: Publication.


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