Usage:
Wolf Pit Dolostone (FL,GA,)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Oligocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 535 to 606 ft, Colquitt 5 core (GGS-3199), adjacent to a small farm pond roughly 3.1 mi northwest of the courthouse in Moultrie, Colquitt Co., GA. Named from Wolf Pit Branch, a small tributary of the Ochlockonee River, 1.4 mi northwest of the type locality (Huddlestun, 1993).
Reference section (subsurface): depth-interval 675 to 700 ft, Coffee 4 core (GGS-3541) (Huddlestun, 1993).
AAPG geologic province:
South Georgia sedimentary province
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