Usage:
Pinecrest Beds (FL*)
Pinecrest Beds of Tamiami Formation (FL*)
Pinecrest Sand Member of Tamiami Formation (FL)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Pliocene; Zanclean to Piacenzian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from old settlement of Pinecrest on Everglades road, which branches off from present highway at Fortymile Bend, about 1 mi west of Dade-Collier Co. line, southern FL (Olsson, 1964).
[Pinecrest (site) located on Loop Road (Route 94), Tamarind Hammock, west of Fortymile Bend, Lat. 25 deg. 44 min. 48 sec. N., Long. 80 deg. 56 min. 22 sec. W., in northernmost part of Lostmans Trail 7.5-min quadrangle, Monroe Co., Big Cypress National Preserve.]
AAPG geologic province:
Florida platform*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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