Florida Keys Photos:

UW-Oshkosh Geology graduate Kelley Steffen in front of her field area off Virginia Key, Florida. Kelley's Master's thesis involves sediment dynamics in Bear Cut (area in background).
Outcrop of Key Largo Limestone (ca. 125,000 years before present) at Sombrero Beach.
Sombrero Beach. The beach sediment is all carbonate skeletal sand and is protected between two outcrops of Key Largo Limestone.
Edge of a coral reef dominated by sea fans (genus = Gorgonia sp.; "soft coral" or octocorallian) colonies at Dry Rocks Reef, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, Key Largo.
Large Montastrea annularis coral colony at Dry Rocks reef, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, Key Largo.
School of grunts at Dry Rocks reef, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, Key Largo.
sea fan Sea fan (genus = Gorgonia sp.; "soft coral" or octocorallian) colony at Dry Rocks reef, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, Key Largo.
 
Key Largo Limestone exposed in Windley Key Quarry State Park.
Close up view of Montastrea annularis in Key largo Limestone, Windley Key Quarry State Park.
Borings made by lithophaga bivalves in a brain coral (Diploria sp.) colony. Small vein-like tubes made by a marine worm are well preserved in the borings.
Newfound Harbor Marine Institute.
Mangroves in John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park along east shore of Key Largo.
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