Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Generalized thickness of the Floridan aquifer, Southwest Florida Water Management District

January 1, 1981

This map report presents the thickness of the Floridan aquifer in the Southwest Florida Water Management District. The Floridan aquifer ranges in thickness from 600 feet in the northern part of the District to 2,400 feet in the southern part. It is composed chiefly of limestone and dolomite beds that range in age from early Miocene to middle Eocene. For this investigation, the formations considered to be part of the Floridan aquifer are: Lake City and Avon Park Limestones of middle Eocene age; Ocala Limestone of late Eocene age; Suwannee Limestone of Oligocene age; and permeable parts of the Tampa Limestone and Hawthorn Formation of Miocene age that are in hydrologic contact with the rest of the aquifer. 

Publication Year 1981
Title Generalized thickness of the Floridan aquifer, Southwest Florida Water Management District
DOI 10.3133/ofr801288
Authors R. M. Wolansky, J.M. Garbade
Publication Type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Series Title Open-File Report
Series Number 80-1288
Index ID ofr801288
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse