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Geologic Unit: Buckingham

Usage:

Buckingham Limestone Member of Tamiami Formation (FL-local)


Geologic age:

late Tertiary (Pliocene; Zanclean to Piacenzian)


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

Type locality: quarry near State Highway 25, 0.5 mile west of Orange River, in sec. 5, T. 44 S., R. 26 E., Lee Co., southwestern FL (Mansfield, 1939).


AAPG geologic province:

Florida platform


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

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