Quaternary Geology and Sedimentology of the Barrie r Island and Marshy Coast, West–Central Florida, USA: Mullet Key, Pinellas County to Crystal River

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Field Trip Guidebooks Series, Volume 375.

The reach of coast covered by this excursion represents a broad range in coastal morphology and environmental conditions. It extends from Egmont Channel, the entrance to Tampa Bay, on the south, to Crystal River on the north, a total distance of nearly 150 km. This portion of the west-peninsular Florida coast is divided into a barrier island section on the south and a marsh-dominated coast on the north (fig. 1). Orientation of the coast ranges from northwest to north-northeast although locally, the irregular, non-barrier coast may have almost any orientation.