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PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF THE WEST EVERGLADES HIGH

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Date Issued:
1987
Summary:
The Florida Carbonate Platform has been a relatively stable area of carbonate and clastic sediment accumulation since the late Cretaceous. The development of a paleostrait across the northern extent of this platform inhibited transport of clastic sediments below this point. Southward, such features as reefs, banks, and islands developed which eventually trapped sediments that form southern Florida. A reef tract which underlies the topographic highs that surround the present day Everglades encircled an inner continental sea during Pliocene-Pleistocene time. The development of a bank reef within this sea is indicated by a diverse coral and molluscan fauna. Collections of this fauna were made by the writer in an area in the upper Everglades known as the West Everglades High. The development of this reef and perpetuation of its form through the overlying stratigraphy became an important structural feature in the development of the Everglades in the Recent.
Title: A PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF THE WEST EVERGLADES HIGH.
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Name(s): MANNE, BARRY LEE.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Craig, Alan K., Thesis advisor
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Department of Geosciences
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1987
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 102 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The Florida Carbonate Platform has been a relatively stable area of carbonate and clastic sediment accumulation since the late Cretaceous. The development of a paleostrait across the northern extent of this platform inhibited transport of clastic sediments below this point. Southward, such features as reefs, banks, and islands developed which eventually trapped sediments that form southern Florida. A reef tract which underlies the topographic highs that surround the present day Everglades encircled an inner continental sea during Pliocene-Pleistocene time. The development of a bank reef within this sea is indicated by a diverse coral and molluscan fauna. Collections of this fauna were made by the writer in an area in the upper Everglades known as the West Everglades High. The development of this reef and perpetuation of its form through the overlying stratigraphy became an important structural feature in the development of the Everglades in the Recent.
Identifier: 14384 (digitool), FADT14384 (IID), fau:12689 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1987.
Subject(s): Paleogeography--Florida--Everglades
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