| Abstract: | High-resolution seismic-reflection profiles show that the shelf off northern Florida is underlain by solution deformed limestone of Oligocene, Eocene, Paleocene and late Cretaceous age. Dissolution and collapse features are widely scattered. They are expressed in three general forms: as sinkholes that presently breach the sea floor, such as Red Snapper Sink and the Crescent Beach submarine spring; as sinkholes that have breached the seafloor in the past but are now filled with shelf sands; and as dissolution collapse structures that originate deep within the section and have caused buckling and folding of overlying Eocene, Oligocene, and to a lesser extent, Neogene strata. Although deformation caused by solution and collapse can be shown to be a continuous process, the major episode of karstification occurred in the late Oligocene and early Miocene when the shelf was exposed to subaerial conditions. |
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| Citation Author: | Popenoe, Peter; Kohout, F. A.; Manheim, F. T. |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | SEISMIC-REFLECTION STUDIES OF SINKHOLES AND LIMESTONE DISSOLUTION FEATURES ON THE NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA SHELF.; 1984; Conference Paper; Popenoe, Peter; Kohout, F. A.; Manheim, F. T. |
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| Text: | SEISMIC-REFLECTION STUDIES OF SINKHOLES AND LIMESTONE DISSOLUTION FEATURES ON THE NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA SHELF.; 1984; Conference Paper; Popenoe, Peter; Kohout, F. A.; Manheim, F. T. |
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| Date Other: | Sun, 1 Jan 1984 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | A. A. Balkema |
