Coastal & Marine Geology Program > Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies > Open File Report 01-303

A Summary of Findings of the West-Central Florida Coastal Studies Project

return to: Early Geologic History Figure 5. Cross-section of Florida/Bahamas platform showing range of thickness of carbonate rocks covering basement rocks. The Peninsular Arch forms the backbone of peninsular Florida. Beneath our study area lie about 4 km of shallow water carbonates. This figure shows that the west Florida shelf is a low-gradient carbonate ramp (Figure modified from Randazzo, 1997) return to: Early Geologic History

Coastal & Marine Geology Program > Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies > Open File Report 01-303