1956 - 1958 
McCallum, J. S., and K. W. Stockman (1961) Salinity of Florida Bay. Amer. Assoc. 
Petroleum Geol. Symp., Denver, CO. 78. (Abs.). 
[ABSTRACT ONLY. NO COPY OF PAPER AVAILABLE. ABSTRACT FROM SCHMIDT (1991).] 
These authors made extensive bimonthly collections at 75 stations in eastern Florida 
Bay during an unusually dry year from December 1956 to December 1957, and found 
salinities as high as 58 °/oo. When normal rains returned in 1958, salinities were again 
on the brackish side. Comparing their data to rainfall records from previous years, the 
authors concluded that Florida Bay undergoes a cyclic alternation of brackish to 
hypersaline to brackish water in response to variations in rainfall. It was determined 
that in order to have runoff into Florida Bay there must be enough rainfall to raise the 
mainland water table to above that of Bay level. 
1957 0 
Ginsburg, R. N. (1957) Early diagenesis and lithification of shallow-water carbonate 
sediments in south Florida. Soc. Econ. Paleo. and Miner. Spec. Pub. No. 5. 80-99. 
[DATE OF SAMPLING UNKNOWN OR NOT APPLICABLE.] Diagenesis and lithification 
include processes which convert sediment into rock. They are of special importance to 
the study of limestones because of the ease with which they modify texture, structure, 
and composition of carbonate sediments The intense physical, chemical and biological 
processes which operate during deposition and within the first few feet of burial 
comprise early diagenesis. Subsequent processes are of longer duration and less 
intensity, and often, as in silicification and dolomitization, they obscure previous 
sediment properties, both depositional and early diagenetic. In contrast, the early phase 
does not generally mask original sediment properties, and often its effects may be just 
as indicative of the sedimentary environment as depositional features. Physico¬ 
chemical precipitation of calcium carbonate in the shallow tropical seas occurs under 
extreme conditions of temperature, salinity and nucleation. It may also take place 
within submarine sediments, but apparently not as a lithifying cement. Petrographic 
comparison of lithification of the late Pleistocene Miami Oolite with that of the 
Mississippian Fredonia Oolite suggests that cementation occurred in both cases only 
after removal from the marine environment. Unlithified carbonate sediments found well 
below the surface on some Pacific atolls support this view. Examples of the processes 
discussed are provided mostly from the eastern Florida Bay: Nest Key, Crane Key, 
Swash Key, and Calusa Key. 
1957 - 1959 
Tabb, D. C., D. L. Dubrow, and R. B. Manning (1959) Hydrographic data from the inshore 
bays and estuaries of Everglades National Park, Florida. 1957 - 1959. Rep. ML No.59253. 
The Marine Laboratory, University of Miami., Coral Gables, FL. 26 pp. 
A study of the ecology of the estuarine waters of northern Florida Bay was conducted 
from 1957 to 1959. Surface and bottom temperatures and salinities, dissolved oxygen, 
percent saturation of dissolved oxygen, pH and tide stage were recorded. 
1957 - 1960 
Tabb, D. C., and R. B. Manning (1961) A checklist of the flora and fauna of northern Florida 
Bay and adjacent brackish waters of the Florida Mainland collected during the period July, 
1957 through September, 1960. Bull. Mar. Sci. Gulf and Caribb. . 11 (4):552-649. 
Four hundred thirty two species of plants, invertebrate animals and fish are reported 
from the marine and brackish-water areas of northern Florida Bay and adjacent 
estuaries. Notes on their abundance, tolerance to change in the physical environment, 
and distribution in relation to habitat are included. This work was done in order that 
their fluctuations in distribution and abundance in a natural environment might be better 
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