[NO COPY OF PAPER AVAILABLE. ABSTRACT FROM SCHMIDT (1991).] This paper 
discusses the effects of the passage of hurricane Donna (September 9 - 10, 1960) 
across south Florida in an area where detailed data on pre-storm sea-floor conditions 
existed. Much of the work in this paper was directed towards storm effects along the 
Florida reef tract. Elsewhere in Florida Bay, the ebb of the storm tides left large 
amounts of layered lime mud stranded on the supratidal flats. Sites discussed in Florida 
Bay include Whale Harbor Channel, Crane Key, Cross Bank, Sandy Key as well as the 
Florida mainland where mud deposits extended up to five miles inland. The large extent 
of the supratidal flats results from: (1) the ability of storm tides to strand sediment 
over large areas, (2) the inaccessibility of the tidal flat to processes that could rework 
the sediment into adjacent marine environments, and (3) the supply of the tidal-flat 
sediments at the expense of adjacent marine facies that compete with tidal-flat 
sediments for a place in the geologic record. The banks of Florida Bay were not greatly 
affected by storm-wave erosion and are more wave resistent than corals of patch 
reefs. The authors conclude that although such events may be catastrophic in terms of a 
man's lifetime, they are only commonplace events in terms of geologic time. 
1960 
Craighead, F. C., and V. D. Gilbert (1962) The effects of Hurricane Donna on the vegetation 
of southern Florida. Quart. J. Fla. Acad. Sci. . 25(1):1-28. 
Hurricane Donna passed over the southwest tip of Florida September 10, 1960. The 
storm moved at 14 mph and subjected the area to damaging winds for nearly 36 hr. The 
Flamingo area experienced sustained winds of 140 mph with gusts to 180 mph. The 
maximum storm tide at Flamingo was 12 ft above normal high tide. Hurricane damage to 
vegetation was most severe in the mangrove belt and on the keys in the western 
portion of Florida Bay. Hurricane Donna was the strongest hurricane to strike the area 
since the storm of 1935. This paper contains a detailed description of the damage 
caused by the storm. 
1960 0 
Dobkin, S. (1960) The early life history of the pink shrimp Penaeus duorarum Burkenroad 
from Florida waters. M. S. Thesis. University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL. 120 pp. 
[NO COPY OF PAPER AVAILABLE.] 
Fleece, J. B. (1962) The carbonate geochemistry and sedimentology of the Keys of Florida 
Bay, Florida. M. S. Thesis. Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. 112 pp. (Also 
published as Contribution number 5, Sedimentological Research Laboratory, Florida State 
University, Tallahassee, FL.) 
The texture and mineralogy of the sediments comprising the cores from Florida Bay 
indicate that the overall depositional environment in the area studied has remained 
fairly constant for the past 4000 yrs. There is some evidence which suggests that the 
material at the base of each core was deposited at approximately the same time and 
under very similar conditions. The data concerning the organic matter and 
geochemistry, along with the random nature of the peat layers, indicate that after 
initiation each key-shoal area has had its own unique pattern of development. Further, 
at each locality the key appears to have had the more complex depositional history, and 
may have been initiated separately at a later time than its basal shoal. The data indicate 
that in less than 4000 yrs, several significant geochemical diagenetic alterations have 
occurred in the carbonate sediments. There is a significant loss of high-magnesium 
calcite at the base of all the cores. This loss is so great in several of the cores that 
almost all of the high-magnesium calcite has been removed. Strontium is also affected. 
There is no doubt that the sediments making up the keys and shoals have been enriched 
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