Usage:
Rebecca Shoal Dolomite (FL,GA)
Subunits:
Card Sound Tongue (FL), Plantation Tongue (FL), and Tavernier Tongue (FL,GA)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous to Paleocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 1,116 to 1,722 m, electric log of Gulf-California 1 [well], OCS Block 46 (permit 296), Lat. 24 deg. 26 min. N., Long. 82 deg. 30 min. W., FL. Named from bathymetric feature, 11 nautical mi north of type well, Straits of FL (Winston, 1978).
AAPG geologic province:
Florida platform
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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