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Geologic Unit: Glades

Usage:

Glades Group (FL*)
Glades Group of Marquesas Supergroup (FL)


Subunits:

(alphabetical) --all in FL: Lehigh Acres Formation*, Punta Gorda Anhydrite* or Punta Gorda Formation.


Geologic age:

Early Cretaceous (Comanchean Provincial Epoch)*


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

Type section: Coastal Petroleum Tiedtke No. 1 well, in sec. 25, T. 42 S., R. 33 E., Glades Co., east-central FL (Winston, 1971).


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 ([ ]).