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Geologic Unit: Penney Farms

Usage:

Penney Farms Formation of Hawthorn Group (FL*)


Geologic age:

Tertiary (late Oligocene or early Miocene)*


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

Type section (subsurface): depth-interval -118 to -205 ft MSL, Harris No. 1 core W-13769, near town of Penney Farms, in SW/4 SE/4 sec. 7, T. 6 S., R. 25 E., central Clay Co., FL (Scott, 1988).


AAPG geologic province:

Florida platform*
South Georgia sedimentary province*


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 ([ ]).