Recent Carbonate Sedimentation In Florida Bay PDF Download

The texture and mineralogy of the sediments comprising the ores from Florida Bay indicate that the over-all depositional environment in the area studied has remained fairly constant for the past 4000 years. There is some evidence which suggests that the material at the base of each core was deposited at approximately the same time and under very similar conditions. The data in icate that in less than 4000 years several significant geochemical diagenetic alterations have occurred in the carbonate sediments. There is a significant loss of high-magnesium calcite at the base of all the cores. The statistical tests for correlations show that there are a great number of weak interdependences between the ten sediment properties studied. This indicates the extremely complex nature of the process of carbonate sedimentation. (Author).