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The Case For High-Order, Pleistocene Sea-Level Fluctuations In Southwest Florida, Paul Octavius Knorr
The Case For High-Order, Pleistocene Sea-Level Fluctuations In Southwest Florida, Paul Octavius Knorr
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Florida's Plio-Pleistocene strata record episodes of sea-level highstands. The age of the strata is often ambiguous as there are no consistently reliable dating techniques that can be unequivocally applied to many of the units. The lack of preservation of continuous Plio-Pleistocene sedimentary sequences is a consequence of Pleistocene mean sea-levels not flooding peninsular Florida, the low volume of sedimentary supply, and the lack of new accommodation space. This study investigates a 6 m cyclothem-type set of six shallow-marine shell beds separated by five subaerially exposed packstone beds. These strata are part of the biostratigraphically-defined early Pleistocene (1.1 --
1.6 Ma) …