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A. Hugh Adams Central Campus - John H. Payne Hall

FORMATIONS - MIOCENE - ALUM BLUFF GROUP

Calcium carbonate, calcilutite, not in South Florida, type locality - Apalachicola 
River, clay.   Similar to Chesapeake Group
 
 
 
Piacenzian  
Jackson Bluff Fm
 
late Tortonian - early Messinian   Red Bay Fm   only Messinian fossils south of
  Virginia
late Serravallian - early Tortonian
 
Yellow River Fm
 
early Serravallian
 
Shoal River Fm  
   
late Burdigalian
 
Chipola Fm Oak Grove Fm   Chipola Sea -- lagoonal
  muddy
Chattian - early Aquitanian   Chattahoochee Fm
Jackson Bluff Fm:  
                   Cancellaria zone-evaporites-aluminous clay  
 
 
Ecphora zone  
organics  
unconsolidated sands
 
Alum Bluff and Chipola Chipola
are exposed at Alum
Bluff

 

Broward College A. Hugh Adams Central Campus

A. Hugh Adams Central Campus
3501 SW Davie Road
John H. Payne Hall, Building 7
Davie, FL 33314