Usage:
Bone Island Formation (FL*)
Geologic age:
Early Cretaceous (Coahuilan Provincial Epoch)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 13,750 to 15,100 ft, Mobil-Phillips No. 1 Seminole well P-565B, in sec. 28, T. 48 S., R. 33 E., Hendry Co., FL. Named from Bone Island in the Big Cypress Swamp (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.
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