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

GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE - CRETACEOUS

   
Cedar Keys Fm
PALEOCENE 6000'    
(Danian) 4000' Tavernier Mb dolostone
UPPER Pine Key
 
 
Plantation Mb
CRETACEOUS 8000' Fm Card Sound Mb
  Corkscrew    
Naples ** Swamp Fm ls  
Bay Rookery rudists/met. clastics  
Group Bay Fm ls  
  Panther  
10,000'   Camp Fm ls  
  Dollar  
Big Bay Fm ls/ds  
Cypress Gordon   
Group Pass Fm ls/ds  
  Marco **   Comanchean Series
LOWER   Junction Fm ls/ds  
CRETACEOUS   Rattlesnake *  
12,000' Ocean Hammock Fm ls/anh  
Reef Lake  
Group Traford Fm ls/anh  
  Sunniland **  
  Fm ls/anh  
  Punta *  
Glades Gorda Fm vuggy ls/anh  
Group Unnamed    
14,000'   Fm vuggy ls/anh  
     
Ft. Pierce Fm   Coahuilan Series
  16,000'     ls/ds/anh  
Unnamed equivalent of the
 UPPER Woodbine Fm (Delaware) Kimmeridgian Age
JURASSIC
18,000'
    dacite
   
Undifferentiated Volcano-
clastics (chunk of Gondwana
LATE from Africa)
TRIASSIC
4100'
   
   
Pennsylvanian Age mica
schist/quartzite (Appalachian)
   
**  -  oil rich rudistids  -  huge oysters, reef builders
*  -    oil series (lithostratigraphic) =  stage (chronostratigraphic)
anh  -  gypsiferous stringers

 

 

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