Usage:
Fort Denaud Member of Caloosahatchee Formation (FL)
Fort Denaud Member of Caloosahatchee Marl (FL)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (late Pliocene)
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 along stretch of Caloosahatchee River extending between point 0.5 mi and 3.5 mi upstream from Fort Denaud in Hendry Co., southern FL (DuBar, 1958).
AAPG geologic province:
Florida platform
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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