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Comparative Morphologic Analysis And Geochronology For The Development And Decline Of Two Pleistocene Coral Reefs, San Salvador And Great Inagua Islands, Bahamas, H. Allen Curran, Brian White, J. H. Chen, G. J. Wasserburg

Geosciences: Faculty Publications

Reprinted from: John E. Mylroie (ed.), Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas: San Salvador, Bahamian Field Station.

Pleistocene And Holocene Carbonate Environments On San Salvador Island, Bahamas: A Field Trip Guide, H. Allen Curran, Roger J. Bain, James L. Carew, John E. Mylroie, James W. Teeter, Brian White

Geosciences: Faculty Publications

Although isolated and small in size, San Salvador Island is in many ways a unique place - an all carbonates setting on a small, tectonically stable platform, surrounded by deep oceanic waters, and an historical footnote as the widely accepted first landing site of Christopher Columbus in the New World in 1492. Columbus' stay here was brief, and the major events of subsequent history largely have passed San Salvador by. This is not a tourist island; the natural beauty, floras, and faunas of the Bahamas are well preserved here.

The overview theme of this series of field excursions on San …