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Geologic Unit: Murdock Station

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Murdock Station Member of Tamiami Formation (FL) considered abandoned. Sediments included in Peace River Formation of Hawthorn Group. See Peace River.)


Geologic age:

late Tertiary (early Pliocene)


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

Type section: Canal bank, in sec. 4, T. 40 S., R. 21 E., on Jupiter Waterway, 1.6 km south of U.S. Highway 41, Port Charlotte, Charlotte Co., east-central FL (Hunter, 1968).


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.

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