• journal_title：Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France
• Contributor：Simon F. Mitchell
• Publisher：Societe Geologique de France
• Date：2013-01-01
• Format：text/html
• Language：en
• Identifier：10.2113/gssgfbull.184.1-2.111
• journal_abbrev：Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France
• issn：0037-9409
• volume：184
• issue：1-2
• firstpage：111
• section：Articles

The lithostratigraphy of the White Limestone Group (Eocene-Miocene) of Jamaica is revised based on geological mapping across the northern part of the Clarendon block. Eight shallow-water formations are recognised which are from base to top: Healthy Hill Formation (new name): predominantly white grainstones; Troy Formation: recrystallized and dolomitized limestones; Swanswick Formation: white grainstones; Claremont Formation: pale micritic limestones (locally recrystallized and dolomitized); Somerset Formation: pink grainstones and packstones with large white globular foraminifers; Walderston Formation: pink grainstones; Browns Town Formation: white packstones and wackestones with abundant large lens shaped foraminifers and abundant corals; and Newport Formation: pale wakestones and carbonate mudstones. The facies and their foraminifer assemblages are interpreted in terms of sequence stratigraphy.