Focus on Sedimentary Environments

Pleistocene marine carbonate sands

The Miami Limestone, Florida

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The Miami Limestone is a unit of Pleistocene age. It outcrops in the Miami area, and in the western Florida Keys (Lower Keys), where it forms the bedrock 'backbone' of the islands. Sediments of similar type are forming on the Bahamas Banks at the present time, but not in Florida.

Links

• Virtual Field Trip of Selected Exposures of the Miami Limestone (Florida Atlantic University)
• Reservoir scale internal anatomy of the Miami Oolite: Results from 3D ground-penetrating radar. This is a subsurface study of the outcrops seen in images 1 and 2 (University of Miami)
• Surface Rock in the Lower Everglades (Florida International University)
  

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