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FLORIDA Britton Hill        7 ½’ quadrangle: Paxton, FL/AL        Walton County        Lakewood County Park
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Unconsolidated 345 ft (105 m) |
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| High point monument in Lakewood Park (1991). | |
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Bedrock: None exposed.
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| Surficial Geology: Marine quartz sand | Pleistocene and Holocene |
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Marine quartz sand, derived from reworking of the underlying Plio-Pleistocene Citronelle Formation during periods of higher sea level. The Citronelle is dominated by cross-bedded lenticular sands, but grain sizes range from clay to gravel.
Soil Series: Fuquay loamy sand: well drained, nearly level soil formed under longleaf pine, slash pine, loblolly pine, turkey oak, laurel oak, and pineland three-awn wiregrass. Soil typically more than five feet thick.
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