Age of the Florida Marine Terraces

Alt, David; Brooks, H. K.

doi:10.1086/627071

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“…The Great Bahama Bank, for example, was a single emergent land mass an order of magnitude greater in area than the sum of the areas of the individual islands today. By contrast, toward the end of the last interglacial, 65,000 years ago, sea level was evidently about 8-10 m above the present level (5). Except for isolated hills and ridges, practically all of the Bahamas would have been submerged.…”

Section: Pleistocene Climate and Sea Levelmentioning

confidence: 82%

Zoogeography of West Indian Vertebrates in Relation to Pleistocene Climatic Cycles

Pregill¹,

Olson²

1981

Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst.

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Section: Pleistocene Climate and Sea Levelmentioning

confidence: 82%

Zoogeography of West Indian Vertebrates in Relation to Pleistocene Climatic Cycles

Pregill¹,

Olson²

1981

Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst.

203

162

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“…Peak inundations of the Florida peninsula, occurring more than 70,000 B. P., apparently left only a few islands (Cooke, 1945;MacNeil, 1950) which could have served as refuges for L. m, purpurescens. (Alt and Brooks [1965] feel that the last complete separation of peninsular Florida may have been earlier, perhaps during the Pliocene.) Subsequent lowering of sea level following the Pleistocene would then have allowed the spread of L. m. purpurescens and L. m. macrochirus into the Atlantic Coastal states and into the present zone of intergradation.…”

Section: Subspeciiic Intergradationmentioning

confidence: 99%

BIOCHEMICAL GENETICS OF SUNFISH. I. GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION AND SUBSPECIFIC INTERGRADATION IN THE BLUEGILL,LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS

Avise

Smith

1974

Evolution

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“…What is even more surprising, though, is that toward the end of the last interglacial period, ca. 65,000 years ago, the sea level was probably about 8-10 m above the present level (Alt & Brooks 1965). When sea levels were much lower, the amount of available land in the West Indies was considerably greater than at present.…”

Section: Caribbean Climatic Historymentioning

confidence: 88%

<strong>Biogeography of the Greater Antillean Mosses</strong>

Buck

1990

BDE

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The distinctions between dispersal and vicariance are discussed and shown how they relate to geological history. Postulated theories on the tectonic origins and history of the Greater Antilles are reviewed, as well as possible climatic events that would affect biogeography. Numerous zoological examples are presented to argue both dispersalist and vicariance viewpoints. It is proposed that the modern moss flora of the Greater Antilles is best explained primarily by dispersal events. Post-vicariant events, such as Pleistocene climate changes, would have extirpated the vast majority of mosses from the islands and even among those taxa that survived, disperal by the same taxa would have obscured their origins. It is assumed that many of the North American elements in the high elevations of Hispaniola are a result of invasions during the Pleistocene. The Andean elements are considered relatively recent dispersally derived taxa that have successfully colonized the Antilles because of ecologically compatible habitats.

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Age of the Florida Marine Terraces

Cited by 71 publications

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Zoogeography of West Indian Vertebrates in Relation to Pleistocene Climatic Cycles

Zoogeography of West Indian Vertebrates in Relation to Pleistocene Climatic Cycles

BIOCHEMICAL GENETICS OF SUNFISH. I. GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION AND SUBSPECIFIC INTERGRADATION IN THE BLUEGILL,LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS

<strong>Biogeography of the Greater Antillean Mosses</strong>

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