Usage:
Tamiami Formation (FL*)
Subunits:
Alva Clay Member (Puri and Vernon, 1964). Bayshore Clay, Murdock Station, Buckingham Limestone, Pinecrest Sand, and Ochopee Limestone Members of Tamiami Formation (Hunter, 1968); Murdock Station and Sarasota Formations of Tamiami Group (DuBar, 1991; in press); Pinecrest Beds (FL*) (Willard and others, 1993); Lehigh Acres Member (Peck and others, 1979).
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Pliocene; Zanclean to Piacenzian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures along Tamiami Trail, Collier and Monroe Cos., southern FL (Mansfield, 1939).
AAPG geologic province:
Florida platform*
South Georgia sedimentary province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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