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Geologic Unit: Okapilco

Usage:

Okapilco Limestone (GA)


Geologic age:

Tertiary
Oligocene, early


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

Type section: depth-interval 395 to 535 ft, Colqutt 5 core (GGS-3199), approx. 3.5 mi northwest of the court house at Moultrie, Colquitt Co., southern GA (Huddlestun, 1993).


AAPG geologic province:

South Georgia sedimentary province


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