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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) |
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