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Geologic Unit: Bayshore

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Bayshore Clay Member of Tamiami Formation (FL) considered abandoned. Sediments included in Peace River Formation of Hawthorn Group. See Peace River.)


Geologic age:

late Tertiary (early Pliocene)


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

Type section: canal bank on Bayshore Waterway, 0.8 km south of U.S. Highway 41, in sec. 3, T. 40 S., R. 21 E., Port Charlotte, Charlotte Co., FL (Hunter, 1968).


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.

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