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Geologic Unit: Yellow River

Usage:

No current usage?
(†Yellow River Formation (FL) considered abandoned? Uncertain if used by the FL Geol. Survey. Not used by the USGS, rocks of †Yellow River Formation reallocated to Alum Bluff Group, undifferentiated. See Alum Bluff.)


Geologic age:

Tertiary
Miocene, middle


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

Albert H. Cosson's Farm, Walton Co., FL (Puri and Vernon, 1964).


AAPG geologic province:

Mid-Gulf Coast basin


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 ([ ]).