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Thursday, 23 July 2020

Buried impact crater beneath the Everglades, Florida?

The below paper proposes the possibility that a buried

impact crater underlie the Everglades. there should be

enough data around to test.

Petuch, E.J., 1987. The Florida Everglades: A Buried

Pseudoatoll?. Journal of Coastal Research, pp.189-200.

Yours,

Paul H.

Micrometeorites in Your Gutter and Plio‐Pleistocene microtektites from Florida

Can you Really Find Micrometeorites in Your Gutter? Well

Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy. May 16, 2019

Flecks of Extraterrestrial Dust, All Over the Roof

The New York Times, By By William J. Broad

Genge, M.J., Larsen, J., Van Ginneken, M. and Suttle, M.D., 2017.

An urban collection of modern-day large micrometeorites:

Evidence for variations in the extraterrestrial dust flux through

the Quaternary. Geology, 45(2), pp.119-122.

A paper about Plio‐Pleistocene microtektites in Florida shell beds.

Meyer, M., Harries, P.J. and Portell, R.W., 2019. A first report

of microtektites from the shell beds of southwestern Florida.

Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

Yours,

Paul H.

Online Guidebooks About Florida Geology and Fossils

Online PDF versions of guidebooks about Florida geology
and fossils can be found at http://segs.org/publications/ .

They include;

Hurst, M. V., ed., 2012, Central Florida Phosphate District
Southeastern Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook No. 57
http://segs.org/publications/
http://segs.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/SEGS_Guidebook_57.pdf

Portell, R.W., G. H. Means, and R. C. Hulbert, 2012,
SMR Aggregates, Inc., Sarasota, Florida. Southeastern
Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook No. 53
http://segs.org/publications/
http://segs.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/SEGS-Guidebook-53.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.