ABSTRACT
Over the past hundred years, scientists have become aware of the difficulty in interpreting the geology of such a homogeneous carbonate area. This, coupled with the paucity of exposures within the harsh Everglades swampland, has made southern Florida the last heavily-populated area of the US to be fully explored geologically. Any in-depth study of the geology of the Everglades area reveals that the local sedimentary framework differs greatly from those seen on the adjacent Floridian Peninsula and the southeastern United States. The end of the Eocene Epoch has long been known to have been a time of catastrophic environmental conditions and an accompanying mass extinction, now known to have been caused by an asteroid impact. When the force of the impact and the size of the Chesapeake Bay Crater were finally reconstructed, it was found that the resultant series of catastrophic events affected the entire eastern seaboard, including the Ocala Bank of central Florida and the Florida Platform.
