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Research about Dry Tortugas, Florida Keys, Key West, Loggerhead Key, Marquesas Keys, The Quicksands

Source-linked reports with geographic coverage including Dry Tortugas, Florida Keys, Key West, Loggerhead Key, Marquesas Keys, The Quicksands.

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Field guide to the major organisms and processes building reefs and islands of the Dry Tortugas: the Carnegie Dry Tortugas Laboratory Centennial Celebration (1905-2005)

This guide to the geology and biology of the Dry Tortugas is divided into four sections: 1) geologic and anthropogenic features you will pass on your trip to and from the Tortugas, 2) a summary of items of Tortugas geologic, historic, and human interest and what you will experience at Loggerhead Key while walking and snorkeling, 3) a summary of recent coral-monitoring results, and 4) an Appendix with tributes to some of the significant research accomplishments of researchers at the laboratory between 1905 and 1939.

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