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Establishing A Geologic Baseline of Cape Canaveral''s Natural Landscape: Black Point DriveThe goal of this project is to identify the process responsible for the formation of geomorphic features in the Black Point Drive area of Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge/Kennedy Space Center (MINWR/KSC), northwest Cape Canaveral. This study confirms the principal landscape components (geomorphology) of Black Point Drive reflect interaction between surficial sediments deposited in association with late-Quaternary sea-level highstands and the chemical evolution of late-Cenozoic sub-surface limestone formations. The Black Point Drive landscape consists of an undulatory mesic terrain which dips westward into myriad circular and channel-like depression marshes and lakes. This geomorphic gradient may reflect: (1) spatial distinctions in the elevation, character or age of buried (pre-Miocene) limestone formations, (2) dissolution history of late-Quaternary coquina and/or (3) thickness of unconsolidated surface sediment. More detailed evaluation of subsurface data will be necessary before this uncertain0 can be resolved.
Document ID
20030002494
Acquisition Source
Kennedy Space Center
Document Type
Other
Authors
Parkinson, Randall W.
(Florida Inst. of Tech. FL United States)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
June 1, 2002
Publication Information
Publication: 2000 Final Administrative Report NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program
Subject Category
Geophysics
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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