Usage:
Holey Land unit (informal) of Bermont Formation (FL)
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Pleistocene, middle
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Griffin Bros. pit, Broward-Palm Beach Co. line, 10 km west of U.S. Highway 27, FL. Named from adjacent wildlife refuge (Petuch, 1990).
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 ([ ]).