analyzed to determine their consolidation characteristics. The results were similar to 
those found by testing noncarbonate silty clay. The carbonate sediments did not 
compact to as low a porosity as the noncarbonates which could be due to differences in 
particle shape and strength of the individual particle. Age and incipient cementation 
must play a part because the Holocene carbonate sediments did not show this 
characteristic. 
1970 0 
Rouse, W. (1970) Littoral Crustacea from southwest Florida. Quart. Jour. Fla. Aca. Sci. . 
32(2): 1 27-1 52. 
[DATE OF SAMPLING UNKNOWN OR NOT APPLICABLE.] This paper is an annotated 
checklist of decapods, stomatopods, and isopods collected in Florida Bay, the Ten 
Thousand Islands, Whitewater Bay, and Buttonwood Canal. 
1970 0 
Yokel, B. J. (1970) The relationship of the pink shrimp emigrating from the Everglades 
National Park to commercial catches on the Grounds. Proc, Gulf and Caribb. Fish. Inst. . 
22:65. 
[NO COPY OF THE PAPER AVAILABLE.] 
1970 - 1982 
Mazzotti, F. J. (1989) Factors affecting nesting success of the American crocodile, 
Crocodylus acutus, in Florida Bay. Bull. Mar. Sci. . 44:220-28. 
Approximately two-thirds of the nests of the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) 
in Florida occur in Everglades National Park along sandy shorelines and marl creek 
banks, in northeastern Florida Bay. Seventy-four percent of 104 crocodile nests 
examined between 1970 and 1982 produced at least one hatchling. Fifty-eight percent 
of eggs in such successful nests hatched, while 43% of all eggs laid produced 
hatchlings. Egg mortality was caused by predation (13% of 104 nests), and embryonic 
mortality (13% of 104 nests), resulting from flooding and desiccation. Nest 
temperatures apparently did not kill developing embryos, but deformed hatchlings were 
observed from hot (>36.5°C) nests. Disturbance to nesting females may result In 
abandonment of nests during incubation and relocation of nesting effort in subsequent 
years. The timing of nesting seems to be rigidly scheduled, with the developmental 
period bracketed by desiccating and flooding conditions, and periods of low and high 
temperatures. The success of this strategy is shown by the relatively low rate of nest 
failure in most years. 
1971 0 
Ginsburg, R. N. (1971) Landward movement of carbonate mud: a new model for regressive 
cycles in carbonates. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull. . 55:340. (Abs.). 
[NO COPY OF PAPER AVAILABLE. ABSTRACT FROM SCHMIDT (1991).] The Florida Bay 
lagoon and the tidal flats of the Bahamas and the Persian Gulf are traps for fine 
sediments produced on the large adjacent open platforms or shelves. The extensive 
source areas produce carbonate mud by precipitation and by the disintegration of 
organic skeletons. The carbonate mud moves shoreward by wind-driven, tidal or 
estuarine-like circulation, and deposition is accelerated and stabilized by marine plants 
and animals. Because the open marine source areas are many times larger than the 
nearshore traps, seaward progression of the wedge of sediments is inevitable. As the 
shoreline progrades seaward, the size of the open marine source area decreases, 
eventually reduced progradation of mud no longer exceeds slow continuous subsidence 
and a new transgression begins. When the source area expands so that production again 
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