Statenville Formation

Statenville Formation
Statenville Formation
Stratigraphic range: Miocene
Type	Geological formation
Unit of	Hawthorn Group
Overlies	Coosawhatchie Formation (partial)
Lithology
Primary	Sand, clay, dolomite
Other	Phosphate
Location
Region	North Florida
Country	United States
Type section
Named for	Beds near Statenville, Georgia
Named by	Huddlestun (1988)

The Statenville Formation is a geological formation of northern Florida, USA.

Age

Period: Neogene
Epoch: Miocene
Faunal stage: Chattian through early Blancan ~28.4 to ~2.588 mya, calculates to a period of 25.512 million years

Location

The Statenville Formation is found in Hamilton, Columbia, and Baker County, northeastern flank of the Ocala Platform.

Composition

It is composed of sands of light gray to light olive gray color which not of great hardness and contains phosphate. The sand is fine to coarse grained with scattered gravel and with minor occurrences of fossils. Clay is yellowish gray to olive gray in color, poorly consolidated and variably sandy containing phosphate. Dolomite is in thin beds of yellowish gray to light orange, poorly to well indurated, sandy, clayey and containing phosphate grains.

The Statenville Formation partly overlies the Coosawhatchie Formation.^[1] Its permeability is generally low, forming part of the intermediate aquifer system. The phosphate content is of enough quantity to warrant mining.

Fossils

Mollusks (silicified) in casts and molds.

Shark Teeth

Petrified Wood

References

^ Burnette, William C., Cook, P. J., Riggs, Stanley R., Stanley R. Riggs, Shergold, J. H., Phosphate deposits of the world: Neogene to modern phosphorites, Cambridge University Press, 1990.

[1] Burnette, William C., Cook, P. J., Riggs, Stanley R., Stanley R. Riggs, Shergold, J. H., Phosphate deposits of the world: Neogene to modern phosphorites, Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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