Shoal River Formation Explained

Shoal River Formation
Type:	Formation
Age:	Serravallian (Clarendonian) ~
Period:	Serravallian
Prilithology:	Sandstone
Otherlithology:	Marl
Namedfor:	Shoal River
Coordinates:	30.8°N -86.3°W
Paleocoordinates:	31.1°N -83.5°W
Unitof:	Alum Bluff Group
Underlies:	Chochtawatchee Formation
Overlies:	Chipola Formation

The Shoal River Formation is a geologic formation in Florida. The sandstones and marls of the formation preserve fossils dating back to the Serravallian epoch of the Middle Miocene of the Neogene period.^{[1] [2]}

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Florida

References

Bibliography

Further reading

• R. W. Portell, G. L. Polites, and G. W. Schmelz. 2006. Mollusca: Shoal River Formation (Middle Miocene. Florida Fossil Invertebrates 9:1-52
• J. R. Gardner. 1947. The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (142A-H)1-709
• R. H. Smith. 1941. Micropaleontology and stratigraphy of a deep well at Niceville, Okaloosa County, Florida. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 25(2):263-286
• M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160

Notes and References

1. Pineda Salgado et al., 2016
2. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=collectionSearch&geological_group=Alum%20Bluff&formation=Shoal%20River Shoal River Formation