Andros Island

Figure 5.20. The Great Bahama Bank and Andros Island.

Cloud P.E., Jr. (1962a) Environment of calcium carbonate deposition west of Andros Island, Bahamas. US. Geol. Surv. Profess. Papers 350, 1-138. 

Goodell H.G. and Garman R.K. (1969) Carbonate geochemistry of Superior deep test well, Andros Island, Bahamas. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull. 53, 513-536. 

Rhipidogorgia flabellum, Andros Island, Bahamas. Latitude about 25° N. 

There are deeper caves that contain stalactites and stalagmites that could only have formed when the cave was air-filled. Using mass spectrometric UATh dating, Richards et al. (1994) measured sea level low stands down to 50 meters below present sea level. The last extensive thrust of the Wisconsinan ice sheet at about 20 ka is clearly shown. Speleothems recovered from a cave on Andros Island, Bahamas at —45 meters was dated at 139 - 160 ka, showing that sea level must have been at least this low at that time... 

Monty, C.L.V., 1967. Distribution and structure of recent stromatolitic algal mats. Eastern Andros Island, Bahamas. Ann. Soc. Geol. Belg., 90 55—99. 

Figure 11.10 Photographs of outcrops of other cemented beach deposits. (A) Pleistocene coastal deposit on the coast of Cat Cay, western margin of Great Bahama Bank. Note inclined bedding and root structures. (B) Elevated Holocene reef terraces on the southwestern coast of Barbados, West Indies. (C) Indurated dolomite crust on tidal flats. Near western coast of Andros Island, Bahamas.

Shinn, E.A., Ginsburg, R.N. Lloyd, R.M. (1965) Recent supratidal dolomite from Andros Island, Bahamas. In Pray, L.C. Murray, R.C. (Eds) Dolomitiza-tion and Limestone diagenesis. Special Publication 13. Tulsa, OK Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, pp. 112-123. 

Kuwait, Arabian-Persian Gulf Andros Island,... 

Lasemi Z., Boardman M. R., and Sandberg P. A. (1989). Cement Origin of Supra-tidal Dolomite, Andros Island, Bahamas. J. Sed. Petrology, 59(2), 249-257. 

Ginsburg, R.N., and Hardie, L.A. 1975. Tidal and storm deposits, north-western Andros Island, Bahamas. In Tidal Deposits A Casebook of Recent Examples and Fossil Counterparts, vol. 8, Ginsburg, R.N., ed.. Springer, Berlin, Germany, pp. 201-208. 

The magnitude of the artifact is such that coastal and wetland data in the literature is not likely to be seriously affected. An example of this is our Bahamas data ( ) which illustrates the dominance of local island sources elevated concentrations were preceded by wind shifts bringing air from the island of Andros which has extensive tidal flats. Similarly, the H2S concentrations measured on the Gulf of Mexico cruise in the same paper most likely reflect the advection of continental and tidally derived HiS. Brief periods of low H2S concentrations (< 10 ppt) were obtained in the Gulf Stream near the end of both of these cruises during brief exposure to easterly open ocean air. 

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