Usage:
Oak Grove Formation of Alum Bluff Group (FL*)
Oak Grove Sand of Alum Bluff Group (FL)
Oak Grove Sand Member of Shoal River Formation (FL*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Miocene, middle*
Barstovian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Bed and bank of Yellow River, 400 ft below bridge at Oak Grove in secs. 16 or 17, T. 5 N., R. 23 W., Okaloosa Co., FL (Cooke, 1945).
AAPG geologic province:
South Georgia sedimentary province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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