Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota : Volume 3, Geology.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: Fifty-Year Update of Bulletin 89 -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Geologic History of the Gulf of Mexico -- Tectonic Evolution of the Gulf of Mexico Basin -- Geology of the Florida Platform Pre-Mesozoic to Recent -- Pre-Holocene Geological Evolution of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin -- Northern Gulf of Mexico Sea-Level History for the Past 20,000 Years -- Eastern Gulf of Mexico -- Florida Gulf Coast Estuaries Tampa Bay and Charlotte Harbor -- Beaches, Barrier Islands, and Inlets of the Florida Gulf Coast -- Florida Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf Great Contrasts and Significant Transitions -- West Florida Continental Slope -- A Review of Recent Depositional Processes on the Mississippi Fan, Eastern Gulf of Mexico -- Northern Gulf of Mexico -- Recent Geologic Framework and Geomorphology of the Mississippi-Alabama Shelf, Northern Gulf of Mexico -- Mississippi River Delta Plain, Louisiana Coast, and Inner Shelf Holocene Geologic Framework, Processes, and Resources -- Development of the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf and Coastal Zone as a Result of the Late Pleistocene-Holocene Sea-Level Rise -- Surficial Geology of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope Impacts of Fluid and Gas Expulsion -- Energy Resources of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin -- Gas Hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico -- Mexico -- The Chicxulub Impact Crater and Its Influence on the Regional Hydrogeology in Northwest Yucatan, Mexico -- Mexican Littoral of the Gulf of Mexico -- Coral Reefs -- Coral Reefs of the Florida Keys Late Quaternary Stratigraphy -- Florida Middle Ground Reef Complex -- Mexican Coral Reefs -- Habitat-Forming Deepwater Scleractinian Corals in the Gulf of Mexico -- Processes -- Planktic Foraminiferal Relative Abundance and Trends in Gulf of Mexico Holocene Sediments Records of Climate Variability.

Over 300 Years of Anthropogenic and Naturally Induced Low-Oxygen Bottom-Water Events on the Louisiana Continental Shelf -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Contributors -- Index.

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