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Beaches, Limestone Quarries, Phosphate Mines & Florida
References
Adams, A.E. and W.S. MacKenzie, 1998, A Color Atlas of Carbonate Sediments and Rocks Under the Microscope, John Wiley & Sons, New York.
Bryan, J.R., T.M. Scott, G.H. Means, 2008. Roadside geology of Florida, Mountain Press Publishing Company, 376 pp
Dunham, R.J., 1962, Classification of carbonate rocks according to depositional texture. In: Ham, W.E. (ed.) Classification of Carbonate Rocks. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 1, 108-121.
Grunwald, M., 2006. THE SWAMP: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise. Simon & Schuster, 450 pp
Hoffmeister, J. E., 1974. Land from the sea: The geologic story of south Florida, University of Miami Press, 143 pp
Hoffmeister, J.E. and Multer, H.G., 1964a. Pleistocene limestones of the Florida Keys. In: R.N. Ginsburg (Editor), Geol. Soc. Am. Annu. Meet. Field Trip Guideb., Field Trip 1, pp. 57-61.
Hoffmeister, J.E. and Multer, H.G., 1964b. Growth rate estimates of a Pleistocene coral reef of Florida. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 75: 353-358.
Hoffmeister, J.E. and Multer, H.G., 1968. Geology and origin of the Florida Keys.
Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 79: 1487-1502., A.F. and D.S. Jones, eds., 1997. The Geology of Florida, University Press of Florida, 327 pp
Websites
http://www.keyshistory.org/keywest.htm
sophia.gov (USGS Website)
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