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A Quick Look at Natural History, Biogeography and Biopolitics in South Florida.

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Date Issued:
1971-10
Scope and content:
Over most of South Florida the country's limestone bones are covered with depths of up to abcut 15 feet of lime mud and peat. One of the peat deposits determines another major fact of life in South Florida--the Everglades agricultural area, a 400,000 acre tract of rich farmland in the Everglades basin immediately south and southeast of Lake Okeechobee. This is Stephens' slide showing peat subsidence up to 1955 by which time about 6 feet of elevation had been lost. Loss goes on at a steady rate of about one inch per year. It's disappeared, and it's predicted that agriculture by present methods will become impossible over much of the area by the end of the century.
Title: A Quick Look at Natural History, Biogeography and Biopolitics in South Florida.
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Name(s): Robertson, William B Jr.
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Technical Report
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1971-10
Publisher: American Institute of Biological Sciences.Second National Biological Congress.
Physical Form: electronic resource
Extent: 16 pages
Language(s): English
Scope and content: Over most of South Florida the country's limestone bones are covered with depths of up to abcut 15 feet of lime mud and peat. One of the peat deposits determines another major fact of life in South Florida--the Everglades agricultural area, a 400,000 acre tract of rich farmland in the Everglades basin immediately south and southeast of Lake Okeechobee. This is Stephens' slide showing peat subsidence up to 1955 by which time about 6 feet of elevation had been lost. Loss goes on at a steady rate of about one inch per year. It's disappeared, and it's predicted that agriculture by present methods will become impossible over much of the area by the end of the century.
Identifier: FI06041911 (IID), 1029442 (digitool), fiu:16993 (fedora), AAC0039QF
Note(s): Electronic reproduction. [Florida] : State University System of Florida, PALMM Project, 2006. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Electronic version created 2006, State University System of Florida.
Subject(s): Natural history -- Florida
Everglades National Park (Fla.)
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI06041911.pdf
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI06041911.jpg
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Host Institution: FIU