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Geologic Unit: Tallahassee

Usage:

Tallahassee Limestone (FL*)


Geologic age:

Tertiary*
Eocene, middle*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section (subsurface): Southern States Oil Corp. Miller and Gossard No. 1 well, Jefferson Co., FL, and Calhoun Oil and Gas Company Clarksville well, Calhoun Co., FL, both in vicinity of Tallahassee, Gadsden Co., western FL (Applin and Applin, 1944).


AAPG geologic province:

South Georgia sedimentary province*


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 ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).