Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1987

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Craig, Alan K.

Abstract

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.

Extent

102 p.

Comments

Charles E. Schmidt College of Science|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1987.|Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

Identifier

FADT14384

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