Grotto Beach Formation Explained

Grotto Beach Formation
Type:	Formation
Age:	Mid-Late Pleistocene
Period:	Tarantian
Prilithology:	Limestone
Otherlithology:	Grainstone
Region:	San Salvador Island
Coordinates:	24°N -74.5°W
Subunits:	Cockburn Town Member

The Grotto Beach Formation is a geologic formation in the Bahamas. It preserves fossils dating back to the Middle to Late Pleistocene period.^[1]

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Bahamas

Further reading

• L. Gardiner. 2001. Stability of Late Pleistocene Reef Mollusks from San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Palaios 16:372-386
• B. J. Greenstein, L. A. Harris, and H. A. Curran. 1998. Comparison of recent coral life and death assemblages to Pleistocene reef communities: implications for rapid faunal replacement on recent reefs. Carbonates and Evaporites 13(1):23-31

Notes and References

1. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Grotto%20Beach&group_formation_member=Grotto%20Beach Grotto Beach Formation