Florida Keys Photos:

photo of Kelley 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.
photo of shoreline
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.
photo of sea fan
photo of coral colony 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.
photo os fish school
under water photo of sea fans Sea fan (genus = Gorgonia sp.; "soft coral" or octocorallian) colony at Dry Rocks reef, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, Key Largo.
photo of small quarry 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.
photo of fossil coral with borings
Newfound Harbor Marine Institute.
  Mangroves in John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park along east shore of Key Largo.
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