Usage:
Gordon Pass Formation of Big Cypress Group (FL*)
Geologic age:
Early Cretaceous (Comanchean Provincial Epoch)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 3,109 to 3,268 m, Humble Oil and Refining Company No. 1 Collier Corp. well, in sec. 27, T. 50 S., R. 26 E., Collier Co., FL. Named from Gordon Pass, which connects Gulf of Mexico with barrier beach lagoon, 9.6 km west of type well (Winston, 1971).
AAPG geologic province:
Florida platform*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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