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- Usage in publication:
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- West Felda Shale Member*
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Shale
- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- South Florida province
Summary:
West Felda Shale Member, lower member of Lehigh Acres Formation (new) of Glades Group. Consists of dark-gray, micaceous, calcareous shale and shaly limestone. Thickness is 40 feet in type well. Overlies Pumpkin Bay Formation (new); underlies Twelve Mile Member (new) of Lehigh Acres. Age is Early Cretaceous (earliest Comanchean).
Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 12,760 to 12,800 ft, Humble Oil and Refining Company No. 1 Lehigh Acres well P-407, in sec. 14, T. 45 S., R. 27 E., Lee Co., FL. Named from the West Felda oil field.
Source: Modified from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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