Usage:
Pine Key Formation (FL*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
["Type section"] (subsurface): Gulf Oil Company, State of Florida-1 well, Lease 373 [also known as the Big Pine Key well], Big Pine Key, in sec. 2, T. 67 S., R. 29 E., Monroe Co., FL (Meyerhoff and Hatten, 1974).
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 ( ).
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