Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1999

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Finkl, Charles W.

Abstract

The Bahamas archipelago is comprised of numerous carbonate platforms. Within these platforms are a variety of carbonate depositional environments, each unique and warranting detailed investigations of the interrelationships of physical conditions and trends in sediment texture and composition. This study examines one of these environments, Lubber's Bank. The bank is mapped and the physical hydrographic setting in the vicinity of the bank is examined through field measurements, analysis of satellite pictures and predictive techniques. This information is correlated with analysis of sediment texture and composition. Results indicate that the surface sediments on the bank probably originate in the surrounding sea grass beds and on the bank as skeletal material and may have originated by the accumulation of sediments on antecedent topographic highs during the Holocene transgression.

Extent

140 p.

Comments

Charles E. Schmidt College of Science|Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1999.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

Identifier

FADT15645

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