EVSC 4200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Kissimmee River, Pleistocene, Lake Okeechobee
18 Feb 2016
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Old pleistocene coral reef system covered as the sea level (cid:1) began to rise. If you dig into the sediments in the southern part of. Sea level moved upward and northeastward as it rose. Atlantic coastal ridge high point of the reef system that used to exist. Variety of degradations of the natural landscapes ridge and (cid:1) slough formation. Alternating wet and dry season: wet: plants grew everywhere and inverts would be everywhere, dry: they would concentrate themselves in the sloughs. Eventually they sedimented in illed up with organic matter that doesn"t decay and will the soil that was transported. Okeechobee into the northern area of the lake and looded areas that were not used to being looded. Winds shifted and pushed the water back down rebound looded the other areas in the southern portion. To ix it they put a lot of containment structures and levees: they were moderately efective, and the original ones were all earthen dams.
