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Geologic Unit: Able

Usage:

Able Member of Lehigh Acres Formation of Glades Group (FL*-subsurface)


Geologic age:

Early Cretaceous (Comanchean Provincial Epoch)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 12,250 to 12,460 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 nearby Able Canal (Applegate and others, 1981).


AAPG geologic province:

Florida platform*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).