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Geology of the Florida Keys

Title
Geology of the Florida Keys / Eugene A. Shinn and Barbara H. Lidz.
Author
Shinn, Eugene A.
Publication
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2018]

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Additional Authors
Lidz, Barbara H.
Description
xviii, 153 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color); 27 cm
Summary
Based on long personal experience and original research of the authors, this book describes in easily readable detail the major research and researchers focusing on natural processes of coral reef development and the origin of lime sediments in the Florida Keys and Florida Bay. The purpose of the book is to stimulate research into the many unanswered questions that remain about the origins of limestone.
Subject
  • Geology > Florida Keys
  • Coral reefs and islands > Florida Keys
  • Coral reefs and islands
  • Geology
  • Florida > Florida Keys
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-145) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- About the Keys : processes I -- Results of data gathering and mapmaking : processes II -- Major geomorphic topographies -- Western terminus of the reef tract -- Coral health, or lack thereof -- Key limes, hands on : see it in person -- Epilogue : the future for reefs and research in the Florida Keys.
ISBN
  • 9780813056517
  • 0813056519
LCCN
  • 2017030447
  • 99975772346
OCLC
  • ocn982651115
  • 982651115
  • SCSB-8968243
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries