Papers by Stapor, F.W.
Stapor, F.W. .
1971.
Sediment budgets on a compartmented low-to-moderate energy coast in northwest Florida..
Marine Geology 10: M1-M7.
No Abstract Avaliable
Stapor, F.W. .
1973.
History and sand budgets of the barrier island system in the Panama City, Florida, Region..
Marine Geology 14: 277-286.
No Abstract Avaliable
Stapor, F.W. .
1973.
Heavy mineral concentrating processes and density/shape/size equilibria in the marine and coastal dune sands of the Apalachicola, Florida, region..
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 43: 396-407.
No Abstract Avaliable
Stapor, F.W. .
1973.
Coastal Sand Budgets and Holocene Ridge Plain Development, Northwest Florida..
Geology. Tallahassee, Florida State University.
The beach ridges making up the Holocene beach ridge plains
Stapor, F.W. .
1974.
Chapter 1: The "cell" concept in coastal geology. Sediment Transport in the Near-Shore Zone..
Department of Geology, Florida State University. Tallahassee: 1-11.
No Abstract Avaliable
Stapor, F.W. and
Mathews, T.D. .
1989.
Episodic barrier island growth in southwest Florida: A response to fluctuating Holocene sea level?.
Symposium on South Florida Geology. in J. R. Mauresse, Miami Geological Society Memoir No. 3: 149-202.
No Abstract Avaliable
Stapor, F.W. and
Mathews, T.D. .
1991.
Barrier island progradation and Holocene sea level history in southwest Florida..
Journal of Coastal Research, v. 7, p. 815-838.
No Abstract Avaliable
Stone, G.W. ,
Stapor, F.W. ,
May, J.P. ,
and
Morgan, J.P. .
1992.
Multiple sediment sources and a cellular, non-integrated, longshore drift system: northwest Florida and southeast Alabama coast..
Marine Geology 105(141-154).
No Abstract Avaliable
Donoghue, J.F. ,
Otvos, E.G. ,
and
Stapor, F.W. .
1995.
Multiple Pliocene-Quaternary marine highstands northeast Gulf Coastal Plain -- fallacies and facts..
Journal of Coastal Research 11(4): 984-1002.
Claims persist in the literature alleging multiple pre-Sangamonian Pleistocene, mid-Wisconsinan, middle and late Holocene marine highstands on the northeast Gulf coastal plain. These views, still encountered even in official publications are rooted in the assumed similarity between Atlantic and northeast Gulf coastal history. A critical re-examination of the evidence is based on detailed sedimentary, microfossil, and geomorphic data from hundreds of drillholes and field sampling. Sediment data were matched with basic diagnostic criteria of depositional facies. Deposits and landforms that developed during the peak of Sangamonian transgression yielded the only evidence for higher-than-present Quaternary sea levels on the northeast Gulf. Pre-Sangamonian marine units are absent in the subsurface and not exposed in coastal plain surfaces. Post-Pliocene uplift and erosion had removed littoral and nearshore units from the northeast coastal plain. Upland ridges, mistaken for relict barriers, are elongated, high interfluves. Composed of alluvial deposits, they are bounded by semiparallel lineaments of apparently tectonic origin and incised by stream erosion. Combined with lineaments, rare covered karst depressions on a late Pleistocene alluvial plain provide the slight relief of subdued linear features that had been mistaken for relict barrier islands, associated with multiple Pleistocene highstands. Claims for wide Holocene sea level oscillations and record highstands rest on the belief, unsupported by reliable sediment data, that the upper ridge lithosomes were essentially wave-built, intertidal and directly correlatable with sea level positions. However, the ridge morphology and dimensions clearly indicate the foredune origins of discussed Florida Gulf shore strandplain ridges. Cited texture parameters and sedimentary structure types also fail to lend independent diagnostic support to the intertidal origins of the highest beach ridge intervals. Wave-cut scarps and associated supratidal narrow terraces yield no independent proof for the postulated high eustatic Holocene sea levels.
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