Usage:
Sopchoppy Member of Torreya Formation (FL,GA)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene, early
Burdigalian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Sopchoppy River, FL (Dall, 1892).
Type section: exposures in Mill Creek adjacent to and under the bridge of an unimproved dirt road, in center sec. 34, T. 4 S., R. 3 W., approximately 7 mi (11 km) northwest of village of Sopchoppy, Wakulla Co., FL (Huddlestun, 1988).
AAPG geologic province:
South Georgia sedimentary province
Florida platform
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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