Understand the geologic evolution of the coast and inner continental
shelf and by investigating the subsurface sediment facies present on the
underlying carbonate platform.
Location
West-Central Florida Shelf; Anclote Key (North) and Venice Inlet to the South, up to 30 km offshore., Florida
Summary
123 cores collected and analyzed from Oct. 1994 to Sept. 1997. 20 cores
collected in association with the USGS 1996 portion of the project.
Info derived
Grain size, calcium carbonate conetent and total organic
content for all cores. Select smaples mineralogy by XRD analysis and
age dating by carbon 14 or Sr-isotope ratio.
Comments
Part of a project which began in October 1994 and ended in September
1997.
