Usage:
Pumpkin Bay Formation (FL*)
Geologic age:
Early Cretaceous (Coahuilan Provincial Epoch)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 14,050 to 15,130 ft, Bass Collier Company 12-2 well P-778, in sec. 12, T. 52 S., R. 27 E., Collier Co., FL. Named from Pumpkin Bay, 3 mi south of the type well (Applegate and others, 1981).
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.
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