radiometric dating, paleoecological analyses, and comparative faunal studies the 
following age assignments have been made: (1) Lower Tamiami (medial Miocene to 
medial Pliocene); (2) Upper Tamiami (medial to late Pliocene); (3) Caloosahatchee 
(early to medial Pleistocene, 400,000 yrs BP); (4) Bermont (medial Pleistocene); (5) 
Ft. Thompson (late Pleistocene, 120,000 to 140,000 yrs BP); (6) Anastasia (late 
Pleistocene); (7) Miami Limestone (late Pleistocene, 120,000 to 130,000 yrs BP); (8) 
Key Largo Limestone (late Pleistocene, 95,000 yrs BP); and (9) Lake Flirt (Wisconsin, 
7000 to 21,000 yrs BP). 
1974 0 
Gentry, R. C. (1974) Hurricanes in South Florida. Environments of South Florida: Present 
and Past. Memoir 2. P. J. Gleason (ed.). Miami Geological Society, Coral Gables, FL. 73-80. 
[DATE OF SAMPLING UNKNOWN OR NOT APPLICABLE.] Hurricanes or tropical storms 
have struck South Florida half of the years during the past century and the frequency of 
hurricanes is greater in South Florida than in any other place in the United States. The 
winds and the storm surge of the hurricane do great damage to property, to trees, 
other plants and to the coasts of the area as well as cause much loss of life. The rains 
can bring either much needed water or unwelcome floods depending on the 
circumstance. This section discusses the frequency of hurricanes, damaging forces of 
the storms, and a few of the famous hurricanes that have ravaged South Florida. 
1974 0. 
Gleason, P. J., A. D. Cohen, H. K. Brooks, P. Stone, R. Goodrick, W. G. Smith, and W. 
Spackman (1974) The environmental significance of Holocene sediments from the 
Everglades and saline tidal plain. Environments of South Florida: Present and Past. Memoir 
2. P. J. Gleason (ed.). Miami Geological Society, Coral Gables, FL. 287-341. 
[DATE OF SAMPLING UNKNOWN OR NOT APPLICABLE.] The distribution, age, 
composition, rates of deposition, and depositional environments of macroscopically 
identifiable organic and inorganic Holocene sediments of interior and marginal areas of 
South Florida are reviewed and discussed. Four topics are selectively treated: 1) Tree 
island formation and the petrographically-determined peat stratigraphy of three 
hammocks in the northern Everglades; 2) Sedimentation changes which have occurred in 
the peats and with respect to freshwater calcitic muds within Taylor Slough; 3) 
Transgression and regression of the sea along segments of the South Florida coast; and 
4) Evidence for climatic change in South Florida during the Holocene. 
1974 0 
Hoffmeister, J. E. (1974) Land from the Sea . University of Miami Press, Coral Gables, FL. 
143 pp. 
[DATE OF SAMPLING UNKNOWN OR NOT APPLICABLE.] This citation is a review of the 
geologic history of South Florida including Florida Bay. 
1974 0 
O'Brien, N. R., K. Tompkins, and S. Bryson (1974) Clues in recent carbonate sediment and 
limestone revealed by electron microscopy. Earth Sci. . 27(4):217-21. 
[DATE OF SAMPLING UNKNOWN OR NOT APPLICABLE.] This paper describes the use of 
electron microscopy in the study of carbonate sediments including those of Florida Bay. 
1974 0 
Parker, G. (1974) Hydrology of the pre-drainage system of the Everglades in Southern 
Florida. Environments of South Florida: Present and Past II . P. J. Gleason (ed.). Miami 
Geological Society, Coral Gables, FL. 22-7. 
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