Earth: Portrait of a Planet (Fifth Edition)
Earth: Portrait of a Planet (Fifth Edition)
5th Edition
ISBN: 9780393937503
Author: Stephen Marshak
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Chapter 7, Problem 15OFT
To determine

The Bahamas using Google Earth, the composition of the white sand found on the beaches of the Bahamas, the rock that would result from the burial and lithification of this sand, and the indication given by the shallow-marine limestone (seen as the bedrock) found at the area of Florida, about the past of the peninsula.

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