Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Choctawhatchee Formation (FL) or †Choctawhatchee Stage (FL) reallocated to Shoal River Formation, Duplin Marl, Jackson Bluff Formation, and Chipola Formation. See Shoal River, Duplin, Jackson Bluff, and Chipola.)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Miocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named for exposures on Choctawhatchee River in Walton Co., western FL (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Mid-Gulf Coast basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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