Usage:
Tivola Limestone Member of Dry Branch Formation of Barnwell Group (GA)
Tivola Limestone of Ocala Group (GA)
(†Ocala Group abandoned by the FL Geol. Survey (type locality in FL) and the USGS. Rocks reallocated to Ocala Limestone. See Ocala.)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (late Eocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Typically exposed at quarry of Planters Limestone Company, 2 mi south of Tivola, Houston Co., central GA (Cooke and Shearer, 1919).
Type locality: at village of Tivola, 1 mi north of Penn-Dixie cement quarry at Clinchfield, Houston Co., central GA. Extends from Houston Co. northeastward in not too widely separated outcrops into Twiggs, Wilkinson, and Bleckley Cos., central GA. Northeasternmost exposure is south of Gordon, Wilkinson Co. (Connell, 1958).
AAPG geologic province:
South Georgia sedimentary province
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