Florida Gulf of Mexico continental shelf: Great contrasts and significant transitions

Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Volume III, Geology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 101-127

  Hine, Albert C ^a   Locker, Stanley D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896249514     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (99)

1. Ahr, W. H. 1973. The carbonate ramp: an alternative to the shelf model. Gulf Coast Association of Geologic Societies 23:221-225.
2. Anderson, J. B., and R. H. Fillon (eds.). 2004. Late Quaternary Stratigraphic Evolution of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Margin. SEPM Special Publication No. 79. Tulsa, Okla.: The Society for Sedimentary Geology. 311 pp.
3. Anderson, J. B., A. Rodriguez, K. C. Abdulah, R. H. Fillon, L. A. Banfield, H. A. McKeown, and J. S. Wellner. 2004. Late Quaternary stratigraphic evolution of the northern Gulf of Mexico margin: a synthesis. Pp. 1-23 in J. B. Anderson and R. H. Fillon (eds.), Late Quaternary Stratigraphic Evolution of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Margin. Special Publication 79. Tulsa, Okla.: The Society for Sedimentary Geology.
4. Arthur, M. A., and S. O. Schlanger. 1979. Cretaceous "oceanic anoxic events" as causal factors in reef-reservoired oil fields. Geological Society of America Bulletin 69:870-85.
5. Ballard, R. D., and E. Uchupi. 1970. Morphology and Quaternary history of the continental shelf of the Gulf coast of the United States. Bulletin of Marine Science 20:547-59.
6. Bart, P. J., and J. B. Anderson. 2004. Late Quaternary stratigraphic evolution of the Alabama and west Florida outer continental shelf. Pp. 45-53 in J. B. Anderson and R. H. Fillon (eds.), Late Quaternary Stratigraphic Evolution of the Northern Gulf of Mexico margin. SEPM Special Publication 79. Tulsa, Okla.: The Society for Sedimentary Geology.
7. Bouma, A. H., G. T. Moore, and J. M. Coleman. 1978. Framework, Facies, and Oil-Trapping Characteristics of the Upper Continental Margin. Studies in Geology No. 7. Tulsa, Okla.: American Association of Petroleum Geologists. 326 pp.
8. Brooks, G. R. (ed.). 2003. Neogene Geology of a Linked Coastal/Inner Shelf System: West-Central Florida. Marine Geology Special Publication, Volume 200. 378 pp.
9. Brooks G. R., L. J. Doyle, R. A. Davis, N. T. De Witt, and B. C. Suthard. 2003a. Patterns and controls of surface sediment distribution: west-central Florida inner shelf. Marine Geology 200:307-24.
10. Brooks, G. R., L. J. Doyle, B. C. Suthard, S. D. Locker, and A. C. Hine. 2003b. Facies architecture of the mixed carbonate/siliciclastic inner continental shelf of west-central Florida: implications for Holocene barrier island development. Marine Geology 200:325-49.
11. Buffler, R. T. 1991. Seismic stratigraphy of the deep Gulf of Mexico and adjacent margins. Pp. 352-87 in A. Salvador (ed.), The Gulf of Mexico Basin: Volume J, The Geology of North America. Boulder, Colo.: Geological Society of America.
12. Chen, C. S. 1965. The Regional Lithostratigraphic Analysis of Paleocene and Eocene rocks of Florida. Bulletin No. 45. Tallahassee, Fla.: Florida Geological Survey. 105 pp.
13. Corso, W., J. A. Austin, and R. T. Buffler. 1989. The early Cretaceous platform of northwest Florida: controls on morphologic development of carbonate margins. Marine Geology 86:1-14.
14. Davis, R. A. Jr. 1997. Geology of the Florida coast. Pp. 155-68 in A. F. Randazzo and D. S. Jones (eds.), The Geology of Florida. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida.
15. Davis, R. A. Jr., and P. Barnard. 2003. Morphodynamics of the barrier-inlet system, west-central Florida. Marine Geology 200:77-101.
16. Davis, R. A. Jr., A. C. Hine, and E. A. Shinn. 1992. Holocene coastal development on the Florida peninsula. Pp. 193-212 in C. H. Fletcher III and J. F. Wehmiller (eds.), Quaternary Coasts of the United States: Marine and Lacustrine Systems. Special Publication 48. Tulsa, Okla.: Society for Sedimentary Geology.
17. Donahue, B. T., A. C. Hine, S. Tebbens, S. D. Locker, and D. C. Twichell. 2003. Late Holocene estuarine-inner shelf interactions; is there evidence of an estuarine retreat path for Tampa Bay, Florida. Marine Geology 200:219-41.
18. Donoghue, J. F. 1993. Late Wisconsin and Holocene depositional history, northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Geology 112:185-205.
19. Doyle, L. J., and T. H. Sparks. 1980. Sediments of the Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida (MAFLA) continental shelf. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 50:905-16.
20. Duncan, D. S., S. D. Locker, G. R. Brooks, A. C. Hine, and L. J. Doyle. 2003. Mixed carbonate-siliciclastic infilling of a Neogene carbonate shelf-valley system: Tampa Bay, West-Central Florida. Marine Geology 200:125-56.
21. Edwards, J. H., S. E. Harrison, S. D. Locker, A. C. Hine, and D. C. Twichell. 2003. Stratigraphic framework of sediment-starved sand ridges on a mixed siliciclastic/carbonate inner shelf; west-central Florida. Marine Geology 200:195-217.
22. Evans, M. W. 1989. Late Miocene to Quaternary seismic and lithologic sequence stratigraphy of the Charlotte Harbor area: southwest Florida. Ph. D. diss., University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Fla. 336 pp.
23. Evans, M. W., A. C. Hine, and D. F. Belknap. 1989. Quaternary stratigraphy of the Charlotte Harbor estuarine-lagoon system, southwest Florida: implications of the carbonate-siliciclastic transition. Marine Geology 88:319-48.
24. Farmer, A., M. Palmsten, and D. F. Naar. 1999. EM 3000 multibeam coastal surveys of hard bottom ledges and an artificial reef system west of Tampa Bay, Florida. EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 80:F520.
25. Feary, D. A., and N. P. James. 1998. Seismic stratigraphy and geological evolution of the Cenozoic, cool-water, Eucla Platform, Great Australian Bight. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 82:792-816.
26. Ginsburg, R. N., and N. P. James. 1974. Holocene carbonate sediments of continental shelves. Pp. 137-55 in C. A. Burk and C. L. Drake (eds.), Geology of Continental Margins. New York: Springer-Verlag.
27. Goodbred, S. L., and A. C. Hine. 1995. Coastal storm deposition: salt-marsh response to a severe extratropical storm, March 1993, west-central Florida. Geology 23:679-82.
28. Gould, H. R., and R. H. Stewart. 1955. Continental terrace sediments in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Pp. 2-19 in J. L. Hough and H. W. Menard (eds.), Finding Ancient Shorelines. Special Publication 3. Tulsa, Okla.: Society for Sedimentary Geology.
29. Grimm, E. C., G. L. Jacobson, W. A. Watts, B. C. Hansen, and K. A. Maasch. 1993. A 50, 000 year record of climate oscillations from Florida and its temporal correlation with Heinrich Events. Science 261:198-200.
30. Hafen, M. R. 2001. Spatial and temporal comparisons of sedimentary features and properties, west Florida shelf. Ph. D. diss., University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Fla. 328 pp.
31. Hafen, M. R., A. C. Hine, D. F. Naar, and P. A. Howd. 1998. Interpreting shallow sedimentary structures in Holocene sand ridges. EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union Transactions 45:F457.
32. Halley, R. B., A. C. Hine, B. D. Jarrett, D. C. Twichell, D. F. Naar, and G. D. Dennis. 2004. Pulley Ridge: the US's deepest hermatypic coral reef. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 36(5):302.
33. Hallock, P. H., and W. Schlager. 1986. Nutrient excess and the demise of coral reefs and carbonate platforms. Palaios 1:389-98.
34. Harrison, S. E., S. D. Locker, A. C. Hine, J. H. Edwards, D. F. Naar, D. C. Twichell, and D. J. Mallinson. 2003. Sediment-starved sand ridges on a mixed carbonate/siliciclastic inner shelf off west-central Florida. Marine Geology 200:171-94.
35. He, R., and R. H. Weisberg. 2003. A Loop Current intrusion case study on the West Florida Shelf. Journal of Physical Oceanography 33:465-77.
36. Hine, A. C. 1997. Structural and paleoceanographic evolution of the margins of the Florida Platform. Pp. 169-94 in A. F. Randazzo and D. S. Jones (eds.), The Geology of Florida. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida.
37. Hine, A. C., D. F. Belknap, J. G. Hutton, E. B. Osking, and M. W. Evans. 1988. Recent geological history and modern sedimentary processes along an incipient, low-energy, epicontinental coastline: northwest Florida. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 58:567-79.
38. Hine, A. C., G. R. Brooks, R. A. Davis Jr., D. S. Duncan, S. D. Locker, D. C. Twichell, and G. Gelfenbaum. 2003. The west-central Florida inner shelf and coastal system; a geologic conceptual overview and introduction to the special issue. Marine Geology 200:1-17.
39. Hine, A. C., R. B. Halley, S. D. Locker, B. D. Jarrett, W. C. Jaap, D. J. Mallinson, K. T. Ciembronowicz, N. B. Ogden, B. T. Donahue, and D. F. Naar. 2008. Coral reefs, present and past, on the West Florida Shelf and Platform margin. Pp. 127-73 in B. M. Riegl and R. E. Dodge (eds.), Coral Reefs of the USA. New York: Springer.
40. Hine, A. C., and H. T. Mullins. 1983. Modern carbonate shelf-slope breaks. Pp. 169-88 in D. J. Stanley and G. T. Moore (eds.), The Shelfbreak: Critical Interface on Continental Margins, SEPM Special Publication No. 33. Tulsa, Okla.: Society for Sedimentary Geology.
41. Hine, A. C., B. Suthard, S. D. Locker, K. J. Cunningham, D. D. Duncan, M. Evans, and R. A. Morton. 2009. Karst subbasins and their relation to the transport of tertiary siliciclastic sediments on the Florida Platform. Pp. 179-97 in P. K. Swart, G. P. Eberli, and J. A. McKenzie (eds.), Perspectives in Sedimentary Geology: A Tribute to the Career of Robert N. Ginsburg. International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication 41. Hoboken, N. J.: Wiley-Blackwell.
42. Holmes, C. W. 1985. Accretion of the south Florida platform, late Quaternary development. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 69:149-60.
43. Huddlestun, P. F. 1993. A Revision of the Lithostratigraphic Units of the Coastal Plain of Georgia: The Oligocene. Bulletin 105. Atlanta, Ga.: Georgia Geologic Survey. 152 pp.
44. Jarrett, B. D. 2003. Late Quaternary carbonate sediments and facies distribution patterns across a ramp to rim transition: a new conceptual model for the southwest Florida platform. Ph. D. diss., University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Fla. 354 pp.
45. Jarrett, B. D., A. C. Hine, R. B. Halley, D. F. Naar, S. D. Locker, A. C. Neumann, D. Twichell, C. Hu, B. T. Donahue, W. C. Jaap, D. Palandro, and K. Ciembronowicz. 2005. Strange bedfellows - a deep hermatypic coral reef superimposed on a drowned barrier island; southern Pulley Ridge, SW Florida Platform margin. Marine Geology 214:295-307.
46. Jordan, G. F. 1951. Continental slope off Apalachicola River, Florida. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 35:1978-993.
47. Klitgord, K. D., P. Popenoe, and H. Schouten. 1984. Florida: a Jurassic transform plate boundary. Journal of Geophysical Research 89:7753-772.
48. Law, J. 2003. Deep ocean effects on outer continental shelf flow: a descriptive study in the Loop Current, Florida Current, and Gulf Stream systems. M. S. thesis, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Fla. 166 pp.
49. Lidz, B. H., A. C. Hine, E. A. Shinn, and J. L. Kindinger. 1991. Multiple outer-reef tracts along the south Florida bank margin: outlier reefs, a new windward model. Geology 19:115-18.
50. Locker, S. D., and L. J. Doyle. 1992. Neogene to Recent stratigraphy and depositional regimes of the northwest Florida inner continental shelf. Marine Geology 104:123-38.
51. Locker, S. D., A. C. Hine, and G. R. Brooks. 2003. Regional stratigraphic framework linking continental shelf and coastal sedimentary deposits of west-central Florida. Marine Geology 200:351-78.
52. Locker, S. D., A. C. Hine, L. P. Tedesco, and E. A. Shinn. 1996. Magnitude and timing of episodic sea-level rise during the last deglaciation. Geology 24:827-30.
53. Mallinson, D. J., B. Donahue, D. F. Naar, A. C. Hine, and S. D. Locker. 2006. Pleistocene and Holocene geologic controls on the Florida Middle Ground relict reef complex; a diverse seafloor environment on the west Florida shelf. Paper presented at: American Geophysical Union ASLO Ocean Sciences Convention; 20-24 February 2006; Honolulu, Hawaii.
54. Mallinson, D. J, A. Hine, P. Hallock, S. Locker, E. Shinn, D. Naar, B. Donahue, and D. Weaver. 2003. Development of small carbonate banks on the south Florida platform margin: response to sea level and climate change. Marine Geology 199:45-63.
55. Mallinson, D. J., A. C. Hine, and S. D. Locker. 1996. Paleocirculation and paleoclimatic implications of the Florida Middle Ground reefs. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program 28(7):128.
56. Mallinson, D., A. Hine, and P. Muller. 1999. Structure and Origin of Relict Reefs on the West Florida Margin. EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 80(46):F498.
57. Martin, R. G. 1978. Northern and eastern Gulf of Mexico continental margin: stratigraphic and structural framework. Pp. 21-42 in A. H. Bouma, G. T. Moore, and J. M. Coleman (eds.), Framework, Facies, and Oil-Trapping Characteristics of the Upper Continental Margin. Studies in Geology no. 7. Tulsa, Okla.: American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
58. Martin, R. G., and A. H. Bouma. 1978. Physiography of Gulf of Mexico. Pp. 3-19 in A. H. Bouma, G. T. Moore, and J. M. Coleman (eds.), Framework, Facies, and Oil-Trapping Characteristics of the Upper Continental Margin. Studies in Geology No. 7. Tulsa, Okla.: American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
59. McBride, R. A., and T. F. Moslow. 1991. Origin, evolution and distribution ofishoreface sand ridges, Atlantic inner shelf USA. Marine Geology 97:57-85.
60. McBride, R. A., T. F. Moslow, H. H. Roberts, and R. J. Diecchio. 2004. Late Quaternary geology of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico shelf: Sedimentology, depositional history, and ancient analogs of a major shelf-sand sheet of the modern transgressive systems tract. Pp. 55-83 in J. B. Anderson and R. H. Fillon (eds.), Late Quaternary Stratigraphic Evolution of the Northern Gulf of Mexico margin. Special Publication 79. Tulsa, Okla.: The Society for Sedimentary Geology.
61. McIntyre, M. L., D. F. Naar, K. L. Carder, and P. A. Howd. 2002. Hyperspectral remote sensing ofinearshore bathymetry offshore of Sarasota, Florida: comparisons with highresolution multibeam bathymetry. EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 83:4, OS164.
62. McKeown, H. A., P. J. Bart, and J. B. Anderson. 2004. Highresolution stratigraphy of a sandy-ramp-type margin-Apalachicola, Florida, USA. Pp. 25-41 in J. B. Anderson and R. H. Fillon (eds.), Late Quaternary Stratigraphic Evolution of the Northern Gulf of Mexico margin. SEPM Special Publication. 79. Tulsa, Okla.: The Society for Sedimentary Geology.
63. McKinney, M. L. 1984. Suwannee channel of the Paleogene coastal plain: support for the "carbonate suppression" model of basin formation. Geology 12:343-45.
64. Mitchum, R. M. 1978. Seismic stratigraphic investigation of west Florida slope, Gulf of Mexico. Pp. 193-223 in A. H. Bouma, G. T. Moore, and J. M. Coleman (eds.), Framework, Facies, and Oil-Trapping Characteristics of the Upper Continental Margin. Studies in Geology no. 7. Tulsa, Okla.: American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
65. Mullins, H. T., A. F. Gardulski, E. J. Hinchey, and A. C. Hine. 1988a. The modern carbonate ramp slope of central west Florida. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 58:273-90.
66. Mullins, H. T., A. F. Gardulski, A. C. Hine, A. J. Melillo, S. W. Wise, and J. Applegate. 1988b. Three-dimensional sedimentary framework of the carbonate ramp slope of central west Florida: a sequential stratigraphic perspective. Geological Society of America Bulletin 100:514-33.
67. Mullins, H. T., A. F. Gardulski, S. W. Wise, and J. Applegate. 1987. Middle Miocene oceanographic event in eastern Gulf of Mexico: implications for seismic stratigraphic succession and loop current/Gulf Stream circulation. Geological Society of America Bulletin 98:702-13.
68. Naar, D. F., G. Berman, B. Donahue, N. De Witt, A. Farmer, B. Jarrett, M. Palmsten, B. J. Reynolds, and D. Wilder. 1999. Preliminary results from a EM 3000 multibeam class survey along the west coast of the Florida carbonate platform. EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 80:46.
69. Naar, D. F., B. T. Donahue, G. A. Berman, M. L. McIntyre, S. Saleem, B. D. Wilder, B. Jarrett, B. Suthard, K. Ciembronowicz, and D. J. Mallinson. 2003. Multibeam sonar surveys of Egmont Deep and of sedimentary bedforms, limestone ledges, real and artificial reefs surrounding Florida, the Bahamas, and American Samoa. P. 197 (Abstract VC-P12) in R. A. Davis, A. Sallenger, and P. Howd (eds.), Coastal Sediments 2003: Crossing Interdisciplinary Boundaries- Proceedings of the International Conference. Hackensack, N. J.: World Scientific Publishing Co. (CD-ROM).
70. Neumann, A. C., and I. MacIntyre. 1985. Reef response to sea level rise: keep-up, catch-up, or give-up. Proceedings of the Fifth International Coral Reef Congress 2:105-10.
71. Obrochta, S. P., D. S. Duncan, and G. R. Brooks. 2003. Hardbottom development and significance to the sediment-starved west-central Florida inner continental shelf. Marine Geology 200:291-306.
72. Poag, W. 1991. Rise and demise of the Bahama-Grand Banks gigaplatform, northern margin of the Jurassic proto-Atlantic seaway. Marine Geology 102:63-150.
73. Popenoe, P. 1990. Paleoceanography and the paleogeography of the Miocene of the southeastern United States. Pp. 352-80 in W. C. Burnett and S. R. Riggs (eds.), Phosphate Deposits of the World, Vol. 3, Neogene to Modern Phosphorites. New York: Cambridge University Press.
74. Popenoe, P., V. J. Henry, and F. M. Idris. 1987. Gulf trough-the Atlantic connection. Geology 15:327-32.
75. Randazzo, A. F. 1997. The sedimentary platform of Florida: Mesozoic to Cenozoic. Pp. 39-56 in A. F. Randazzo and D. S. Jones (eds.), The Geology of Florida. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press.
76. Read, J. F. 1982. Carbonate platforms of passive (extensional) continental margins: types, characteristics, and evolution. Tectonophysics 81:195-212.
77. Riggs, S. R. 1979. Phosphate sedimentation in Florida - a modeled phosphogenic system: Economic Geology 74:285-314.
78. -. 1984. Paleoceanographic model ofineogene phosphate deposition, US Atlantic continental margin. Science 223:123-31.
79. Riggs, S. R., W. J. Cleary, and S. W. Snyder. 1995. influence of inherited geologic framework on barrier shoreface morphology and dynamics. Marine Geology 126:213-34.
80. Roof, S. R., H. T. Mullins, S. Gartner, T. C. Huang, E. Joyce, J. Printzman, and L. Tjalsma. 1991. Climate forcing of cyclic carbonate sedimentation during the last 4.5 million years along the west Florida continental margin. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 61:1070-88.
81. Salvador, A. 1991. Origin and development of the Gulf of Mexico basin. Pp. 389-444 in A. Salvador (ed.), The Geology of North America, Volume J, The Gulf of Mexico Basin. Boulder, Colo.: Geological Society of America.
82. Sawyer, D. S., R. T. Buffler, and R. H. Pilger Jr. 1991. The crust underneath the Gulf of Mexico basin. Pp. 53-72 in A. Salvador (ed.), The Geology of North America, Volume J, The Gulf of Mexico Basin. Boulder, Colo.: Geological Society of America.
83. Schnable, J. E., and H. G. Goodell. 1968. Pleistocene-Recent Stratigraphy, Evolution, and Development of the Apalachicola Coast, Florida. Special Paper No. 112. Boulder, Colo.: Geological Society of America. 72 pp.
84. Schroeder, W. W., and C. F. Wood (eds.). 2000. Physical/Biological Oceanographic Integration Workshop for the De Soto Canyon and Adjacent Shelf. OCS Study 2000-074. New Orleans, La.: U. S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service. 157 pp.
85. Scott, T. M. 1988. The Lithostratigraphy of the Hawthorn Group (Miocene) of Florida. Bulletin 59. Tallahassee, Fla.: Florida Geological Survey. 148 pp.
86. Sheridan, R. E., H. T. Mullins, J. A. Austin Jr., M. M. Ball, and J. W. Ladd. 1988. Geology and geophysics of the Bahamas. Pp. 329-64 in R. E. Sheridan and J. A. Grow (eds.), The Atlantic Continental Margins-U. S, The Geology of North America, Volume I-2. Boulder, Colo.: Geological Society of America.
87. Sohl, N. F., R. E. Martinez, P. Salmeron-Urena, and F. Soto-Jaramillo. 1991. Upper Cretaceous. Pp. 205-44 in A. Salvador (ed.), The Geology of North America, Volume J, The Gulf of Mexico Basin. Boulder, Colo.: Geological Society of America.
88. Suthard, B. C. 2005. A siliciclastic-filled sedimentary basin in a mid-carbonate platform setting, Tampa Bay, Florida. M. S. thesis, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Fla. 79 pp.
89. Suthard, B. C., A. C. Hine, S. D. Locker, D. S. Duncan, R. A. Morton, M. E. Hansen, and N. T. Edgar. 2002. A siliciclastic infilled sedimentary basin within a large carbonate platform, Tampa Bay, Florida. EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union OS61A-0210.
90. Toscano, M. A. 1996. Late Quaternary stratigraphy, sea-level history, and paleoclimatology of the southeast Florida outer continental shelf. Ph. D. diss., University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Fla. 280 pp.
91. Twichell, D., G. R. Brooks, G. Gelfenbaum, V. Paskevich, and B. Donahue. 2003. Sand ridges off Sarasota, Florida: A complex facies boundary on a low-energy inner shelf environment. Marine Geology 200:243-62.
92. Vogt, P. R. 1989. Volcanogenic upwelling of anoxic, nutrient-rich water: a possible factor in carbonate bank/reef demise and benthic faunal extinctions? Geological Society of America Bulletin 101:1225-245.
93. Weisberg, R. H., and R. He. 2003. Local and deep-ocean forcing contributions to anomalous water properties on the West Florida Shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research 108:3184, doi:10.1029/2002JC001407.
94. Weisberg, R. H., R. He, Y. Liu, and J. I. Virmani. 2005. West Florida shelf circulation on synoptic, seasonal, and inter-annual time scales in circulation in the Gulf of Mexico. Pp. 325-47 in W. Sturges and A. Lugo-Fernandez (eds.), Circulation in the Gulf of Mexico: Observations and Models. Geophysical Monograph 161. Washington, D. C.: American Geophysical Union.
95. Wolfson, M. L., D. F. Naar, P. A. Howd, S. D. Locker, B. T. Donahue, C. T. Friedrichs, A. C. Trembanis, M. D. Richardson, and T. Wever. 2007. Multibeam observations of mine burial near Clearwater, FL, including comparisons to predictions of wave-induced burial. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering Special Issue on Mine Burial Processes 32:103-18.
96. Wright, E. E. 1995. Sedimentation and stratigraphy of the Suwannee River marsh coastline. Ph. D. diss., University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Fla. 254 pp.
97. Wright, E. E., A. C. Hine, S. L. Goodbred, and S. D. Locker. 2005. The effect of sea-level and climate change on the development of a mixed siliciclastic-carbonate, deltaic coastline: Suwannee River, Florida, USA. Journal of Sedimentary Research 75:621-35.
98. Yang, H., and R. H. Weisberg. 1999. Response to the west Florida shelf circulation to climatological wind stress forcing. Journal of Geophysical Research 104:5301-320.
99. Yang, H., R. H. Weisberg, P. P. Niiler, W. Sturges, and W. Johnson. 1999. Lagrangian circulation and forbidden zone on the west Florida shelf. Continental Shelf Research 19:1221-245.