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 ( ).
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