Focus on Sedimentary Environments

Pleistocene marine carbonate sands

The Miami Limestone, Florida


	Thin section of a sample of Miami Limestone from Coconut Grove, Miami. Plane-polarized light. Scale in mm. View the sample in cross-polarized light

Diagenesis

View this sample in plane- and cross-polarized light. What is the main difference between this sample and the sample from Big Pine Key? List the sequence of events for the formation of each sample.