Virtual Field Trip to the Florida Keys

Upper Keys: Location 5 - Long Key


Long Key State Park. The top of the beach at Long Key Point.


debris

A close-up view of the debris at the top of the beach, some of it deposited around living and dead mangroves. Can you identify the main component of this deposit?

Note also the mangrove seedlings growing successfully in the beach deposits.

Scale: small divisions on left of black and white scale are 1 cm.


Last updated: 4 April, 2002 15:29