Usage:
Bone Valley Member of Peace River Formation of Hawthorn Group (FL*)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (late Miocene to early Pliocene; late Hemphillian to early Blancan NALMA)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures at town of Bone Valley, west of Bartow, Polk Co., southern central FL (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
Principal reference section (subsurface): core W-8879, in NE/4 SW/4 sec. 24, T. 29 S., R. 24 E., Polk Co., FL (Scott, 1988).
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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