Usage:
Florida Gravel (CO*,NM)
Geologic age:
Quaternary*
Pleistocene, early middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Florida Mesa, from which unit is named, in the San Juan Mountains, south side of San Juan Range, between Animas and Florida Rivers, La Plata Co., CO (Atwood and Mather, 1932).
AAPG geologic province:
San Juan basin*
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 ([ ]).