Loss of Coastal Islands Along Florida’s Big Bend Region: Implications for Breeding American Oystercatchers

This is one of a series of papers on the insect life of the Big Bend Region of Trans-Pecos, Texas, in which the author plans to present a fairly complete picture of the insect and animal life of that little known region. The area is composed of Presidio and Jeff Davis Counties, the former mainly Lower Sonoran in its faunal affinities, the latter principally Upper Sonoran and partly Transitional. Each county has its own mountain system; Presidio County the Chinati Mountains and Jeff Davis County the Davis Range. The Chinatis are desert mountains; the Davis are forested with oaks and pines.

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A Central Basin Manifestation in Eastern Wisconsin

American Antiquity ◽

10.2307/275144 ◽

1936 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 215-219 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

E. F. Wood

Keyword(s):

The State ◽

Central Basin ◽

Cultural Group ◽

The South ◽

Big Bend ◽

Big Bend Region ◽

Public Museum ◽

Fox River

Trait manifestations for the Hopewellian, or according to the more recently accepted terminology, the Central Basin cultural phase, have for several years been known to exist in eastern Wisconsin, but the occurrence of this phase with a residentiary cultural group in the eastern part of the state has had no positive indication until recently when a typical Central Basin mound burial was discovered in the Big Bend region of Waukesha County.The burial was partially unearthed by Mr. Henry J. Peterson while grading a portion of his land fronting on the south bank of Fox River in the N.W. ¼ of the N.W. ¼ of Section 25, Vernon Township. Mr. Peterson immediately notified the Milwaukee Public Museum of his find and kindly invited members of the staff to investigate the site. Mr. Peterson should here be commended for his foresight which made possible the gathering and preservation of data which otherwise might have been lost forever.

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The Boquillas Formation of the Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA, a reference Cenomanian through Santonian (Upper Cretaceous) carbonate succession at the southern end of the Western Interior Seaway

Acta Geologica Polonica ◽

10.1515/agp-2017-0033 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 67 (4) ◽

pp. 547-565 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Dee Ann Cooper ◽

Roger W. Cooper ◽

James B. Stevens ◽

M.S. Stevens ◽

William A. Cobban ◽

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Keyword(s):

Marine Environment ◽

National Park ◽

Upper Cretaceous ◽

Western Interior Seaway ◽

Big Bend National Park ◽

Big Bend ◽

Marine Carbonate ◽

Big Bend Region ◽

C 78

Abstract The upper lower Cenomanian through middle Santonian (Upper Cretaceous) of the Boquillas Formation in the Big Bend Region of Trans-Pecos Texas consists of a marine carbonate succession deposited at the southern end of the Western Interior Seaway. The Boquillas Formation, subdivided into the lower, c. 78 m thick limestone-shale Ernst Member, and the upper, c. 132 m thick limestone/chalk/marl San Vicente Member, was deposited in a shallow shelf open marine environment at the junction between the Western Interior Seaway and the western margins of the Tethys Basin. Biogeographically, the area was closely tied with the southern Western Interior Seaway. The richly fossiliferous upper Turonian, Coniacian and lower Santonian parts of the Boquillas Formation are particularly promising for multistratigraphic studies.

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