Usage:
Caloosahatchee Formation (FL*)
Caloosahatchee Marl (FL*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in FL: Ayers Landing Member, Bee Branch Member, Fort Denaud Member.
Geologic age:
late Tertiary to Quaternary (late Piocene to Pleistocene)*
Due to change in Plio-Pleistocene boundary, age may now be considered all or in part Pleistocene.
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures on Caloosahatchee River, Lee Co., southern FL, especially btw. Labelle and Olga (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
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 ([ ]).