USGS Examines Florida Basement Rocks in New Data Report
June 22, 2026
June 22, 2026
WASHINGTON, June 22 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey issued 'Petrography and Mineralogy of Selected Pre-Middle Jurassic Basement Rocks Beneath the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains in Florida' (Data Report 1209) by Ryan T. Deasy, Mary E. Lupo, Ryan J. McAleer, and J. Wright Horton, Jr. in 2026. The report compiles petrographic observations and X-ray diffraction results from 18 boreholes across Florida to support geologic mapping of basement . . .
