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 (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. | |
Everglades National Park: | |
Back to Florida Trip Page | Back to Eric Hiatt's Home Page | To Geology Department |