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Suwannee Limestone

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Bryan, J.R., 1991, Stratigraphic and paleontologic studies of Paleocene and Oligocene carbonate facies of the eastern Gulf Coastal Plain: unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 324
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Huddleston, P.F., A revision of the lithostratigraphic units of the Coastal Plain of Georgia - The Oligocene: Georgia Geological Survey Bulletin 105, 152 p.
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Early Oligocene Suwannee Limestone was recognized in the northwestern peninsula by P. F. Huddleston in 1993 as a triple subdivision of Suwannee Limestone,
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Cooke, C. W., and Mansfield, W. C., 1936, Suwanne Limestone of Florida (abstract): Geological Society of America Proceedings, 1935, p. 71–72.
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parts of the Suwannee Limestone are gray, tan, light brown to moderate brown, moderately to well indurated (hard), finely to coarsely
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Suwannee Limestone is found in the peninsula carbonate outcroppings on the northwestern, northeastern and southwestern flanks of the
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National Geologic Map Database Geolex — Unit Summary, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston Virginia.
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Suwannee Limestone consists of a white to cream, poorly to well hardened, fossil rich, vuggy to moldic
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due to erosion, nondeposition or both. This limestone is present in southeastern
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and forms part of the intermediate confining unit/aquifer system. (USGS)
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with limited occurrences of fossil-bearing beds. Limestone in
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Index

Stratigraphic range
Oligocene
Geological formation
Hawthorn Group
Arcadia Formation
Ocala Limestone
Limestone
North Florida
United States
Leon
Hamilton
Taylor
Suwannee River

Early Oligocene
geologic formation
limestones
North Florida
United States
Ocala Platform
Orange Island
Ocala Platform
Leon
Jefferson
Madison
Taylor
Lafayette
Hamilton
Suwannee River
Suwannee County, Florida

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