carbonate sediments studied were obtained from southern Florida, mainly within Florida 
Bay. Most sediments were found to consist of aragonite, high-Mg calcite, and Mg 
calcite. Shallow water carbonate sediments contain about 70% of unstable forms of 
CaC0 3 , with aragonite predominating while in deep water sediments magnesium calcite 
dominates; compositional difference are due to the contributions of skeletal material in 
the two environments. Pleistocene rocks consisted mainly of magnesium calcite. 
Diagensis of carbonate sediments is accompanied by an important loss in the level of 
abundance of Mg, Sr, Ba, and Mn. The significance of volume changes which accompany 
diagensis can not yet be assessed. 
1961 0 
Taft, W. H. (1961) Authigenic dolomite in modern carbonate sediments along the southern 
coast of Florida. Science . 134(3478):561-2. 
[DATE OF SAMPLING UNKNOWN OR NOT APPLICABLE.] Crystalline authigenic dolomite in 
shallow-water marine sediments from the margins of the North American continent is 
described for the first time. Dolomite is probably forming at the water-sediment 
interface in Florida Bay because of an interaction between organic material and 
hypersaline seawater. 
1961 0 
Lynts, G. W. (1961) Distribution of Recent foraminifera in upper Florida Bay and associated 
sounds. M. S. Thesis. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wl. 
[NO COPY OF PAPER AVAILABLE.] 
1961 - 1962 
Gorsline, D. S. (1965) Final data report marine geology and oceanography of Florida Bay, 
Apalachicola Bay and vicinity, Florida. Observation period - January, 1961 to December 
1962. Report No. USC GEOL 65-1. Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. 14 pp + tables. 
[NO COPY OF PAPER AVAILABLE. ABSTRACT FROM SCHMIDT (1991).] This data report 
is a summation of field and laboratory work on various coastal and estuarine 
environments located along the northern Gulf Coast of Florida and the Florida Keys. 
Water quality, circulation and substrate were studied in two different estuarine 
regimes to provide a body of data applicable to studies of similar lithologic bodies in the 
geologic records. Initial surveys took place in 1960. Monitoring stations were occupied 
monthly in Florida and Appalachicola Bays during 1961. Wind speed and direction, cloud 
cover, air temperature, water temperature, dissolved oxygen, silica, salinity and, in 
some cases, alkalinity, were determined at surface, 1.5 m, and 3 m at Florida Bay 
stations, and at surface only in Apalachicola Bay. During 1962, two special surveys 
were done in Florida Bay to examine in detail tidal water circulation and water 
character in a single ’lake' (south of Crane Key). The parameters listed for the 
monthly monitoring effort were recorded. During the course of the survey, sediment 
grab and core samples were collected. The samples were used for textural analysis, 
mineralogical studies, organic nitrogen and carbon, and inorganic carbon were 
determined. Beach data records include wave height, period and meteorological 
conditions. 
1961 - 1962 
Iversen, E. S., and B. J. Yokel (1963) A myxosporidian (sporozoan) parasite in the red 
drum, Sciaenops ocellatus. Bull. Mar. Sci. Gulf Carib. . 13(3):449-53. 
A description is given of a new species of myoxsporidian parasite located in the 
intestine and pyloric caeca of the red drum, caught in saline waters of south Florida. 
During studies on the life history of red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus myxosporidian cysts 
were found in the intestine and pyloric caeca. This parasite is similar to a 
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