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Ancient Seas of Southern Florida - The Geology and Paleontology of the Everglades Region (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Ancient Seas of Southern Florida - The Geology and Paleontology of the Everglades Region (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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The authors have done an outstanding job of compiling decades of
data collected by their own field reconnaissance and other
geoscientists... This represents a significant contribution to the
understanding of the development of the Florida carbonate platform,
and it will assist other disciplines as they strive for better
understanding of our groundwater resources, aquifer
characterizations, paleoenvironmental interpretations, and
historical/educational geology programs. Walt Schmidt, Florida
State Geologist & Chief, Florida Geological Survey, USA (praise
for the first edition) Painting a complete picture of the history
of the Everglades, Ancient Seas of Southern Florida: The Geology
and Paleontology of the Everglades Region, Second Edition provides
an overview of the geology, paleontology, and paleoceanography of
the region. It emphasizes the upper 300m of the geologic framework
of the area and gives insight into the local stratigraphy,
geomorphology, lithology, and historical geology. Designed to be a
field guide as well as a reference, the book is illustrated in full
color with brand new photographs of exposed geologic sections,
stratotype localities, collection sites, and details of interesting
fossil beds. In this book, the authors illustrate almost 800 of the
most important and diagnostic stratigraphic index fossils found in
these beds, including over 50 species of corals and almost 700
species of mollusks, along with echinoderms, crustaceans,
echinoids, petrified wood, and aquatic vertebrates. A new edition
of The Geology of the Everglades and Adjacent Areas, it contains
larger images of fossil shells, corals, and echinoderms and
includes new updated geological data and concepts, as well as an
expanded iconography of stratigraphic index fossils. Based on the
data gleaned from these fossils, it also offers a series of
geomorphological visualizations, showing the possible appearances
of the Florida Peninsula during the times when it was covered by
tropical seas, from the Oligocene to the late Pleistocene. This
second edition provides a new perspective on both the historical
geology of southern Florida and the evolution of one of America's
most beautiful natural treasures, the Everglades.
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