The St. Marks Formation is a Miocene geologic formation in the eastern Florida Panhandle.

Age

Period: Neogene

Epoch: Miocene ~23.03 to 5.33 mya, calculates to a period of

Faunal stage: Arikareean through Hemphillian

Location

The St. Marks Formation is exposed in Wakulla, southern Leon and southern Jefferson County, Florida on the northwestern flank of the Ocala Platform and along with Suwannee Limestone and Ocala Limestone makes up the upper part of the Floridan Aquifer in the eastern panhandle.

St. Marks Formation

Composition

The St. Marks Formation consists of a white to yellowish gray, poorly to moderately hard, sandy, fossil bearing rock in molds and casts within packstone to wackestone.

St. Marks Formation

Fossils

The fossils are in molds and casts and include: Mollusks

St. Marks Formation

References

Florida Carbonate "Formations" and Conflicting Interpretations of Injection Well Regulations Finch, J., Geological essay on the Tertiary formation in America: American Journal of Science, v. 7, p. 31-43, 1823.

Neogene Florida

Miocene United States

Miocene Series of North America

Geologic formations of Florida

Paleontology in Florida