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1. Adapted from The Natural Features of Southern Florida - Especially the Vegetation, and the Everglades, J. H. Davis, Jr.: Florida Geological Survey Bulletin 25, 1943
2. Relief Map, Metropolitan Dade County Planning Department. (Topographic contours are based on topographic quadrangles of the U.S. Geological Survey.), 1971
3. Generalized Soils Types (map), Metropolitan Dade County Planning Department. (Soils data are based on the Soil Survey, Dade County, Florida; Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Series 1947, No. 4, 1971)
4. Bay segment of this cross section after Sediments of Biscayne Bay - Distribution and Depositional History, H. R. Wanless, Jr.: Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami Technical Report 69-2, 1969

1. Census of Population, U .S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census, 1970
2. Metropolitan Miami - A Demographic Overview, W.W. Jenna: University of Miami Press, 1972
3. Transportation Master Plan, Miami Urban Area Transportation Study, Metropolitan Dade County, Miami, Florida, 1969
4. A Land-Use Classification System for Use with Remote-Sensor Data, J. R. Anderson, E. E. Hardy, and J. T. Roach: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 671, 1972
5. Based on information from the Metropolitan Dade County Planning Department, 1973

1. Land Fill Requirements in Environment Comprehensive Development Master Plan for Dade County, Metropolitan Dade County Planning Department, 1973
2. Hurricane Shelter Program. Miami Federal Executive Board, 1973.
3. Metropolitan Dade County Planning Department, 1973

1. Standard Method to Test for Abrasion Resistance of Large Size Coarse Aggregates by Use of the Los Angeles Machine, Designation C 535-69, American Society for Testing Materials, 1969
2. Standard Method to Test for Abrasion Resistance of Small Size Coarse Aggregates by Use of the Los Angeles Abrasion Machine. Designation C 131-69, American Society for Testing Materials, 1969

1. Biscayne aquifer of Dade and Broward Counties, Florida, M. C. Schroeder, H. Klein, and N. D. Hoy: Florida Geological Survey Report of Investigation 17, 1958
2. Water Resources of Southeastern Florida, with special reference to the geology and ground water of the Miami area, G. G. Parker, G. E. Ferguson, S. K. Love, and others: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 1255, 1955
3. Hydrologic conditions during 1971 in Dade County, Florida, J. E. Hull and E. T. Wimberly: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 72024, 1972
4. Hydrologic effects of water control and management of Southeastern Florida, S. D. Leach, H. Klein, and E. R. Hampton: Florida Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Geology, Report of Investigation 60, 1972
5. Effect of pulse recharge on the zone of diffusion in the Biscayne aquifer, F. A. Kohout and H. Klein: Bulletin of the International Association of Scientific Hydrology, 1967
6. Availability of ground water for the Navy well field near Florida City, Dade County, Florida, F. W. Meyer: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report, in preparation
7. Water quality management plan for Metropolitan Dade County, Florida, preliminary draft, Greeley and Hansen, Connell Associates, Consulting Engineers, March 1973
8. Hydrologic effects of Area B flood control plan on urbanization of Dade County, Florida, F. A. Kohout and J. H. Hartwell: Florida Geological Survey Report of Investigation 47, 1967
9. Preliminary evaluation of the hydrologic effects of implementing water and sewerage plans, Dade County, Florida, F. W. Meyer: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 71003, 1971
10. Effects of abatement of domestic sewage pollution on the benthos, volumes of zooplankton, and the fouling organisms of Biscayne Bay, Florida, J. K. McNulty: Studies in Tropical Oceanography No. 9, Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, 1970
11. An environmental land planning study, south Dade County, Florida, A. R. Veri: Division of Applied Ecology, Center for Urban Studies, University of Miami, 1971
12. Water and the south Florida environment, H. Klein, J. T. Armbruster, B. F. McPherson, and H. J. Freiberger: U.S. Department of the Interior Special Publication, 1973
13. Saline ground water in southern Florida, C. B. Sherwood and H. Klein: Ground Water, Volume 1, No. 2, April 1963
14. Water resources for central and southern Florida, Corps of Engineers Survey Review Rept. on Central and Southern Florida Project, 1968

1. Adapted from The Natural Features of Southern Florida-Especially the Vegetation, and the Everglades, J. H. Davis, Jr.: Florida Geological Survey Bulletin 25, 1943
2. South Florida-A Case Study in Carrying Capacity, A. R. Marshall: An address to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C., 1972
3. A Cursory View of Florida's Waste Treatment Plants and Future Needs, Florida Department of Air and Water Pollution Control, Tallahassee, Florida, 1970
4. Environmental Assessment of the Interim Water Quality Management Plan, Metropolitan Dade County Water and Sewer Authority, Miami, Florida, 1972
5. Engineering and Economic Report on Solid Waste Collection and Disposal for Metropolitan Dade County, Greenleaf/Telesca Planners, Engineers, and Architects, Miami, Florida, 1972
6. Summary Report, Solid Waste Collection and Disposal, Greenleaf/Telesca Planners, Engineers, and Architects, Miami, Florida, 1972
7. Data on Florida Bay from J. G. Palacas, USGS, unpublished, 1973
8. Distribution of Mercury in Unconsolidated Sediments from Southern Lake Michigan, E. J. Kennedy, R. R. Ruch, and N. F. Shimp: Illinois Geological Survey Environmental Geological Note 43, 1971
9. Distribution of Mercury in Surficial Sediments in San Francisco Bay Estuary, D. S. McCulloch, T. J. Conomos, D. H. Peterson, and K. Leong: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report, 1971
10. Some Aspects of the Effects of the Quantity and Quality of Water on Biological Communities in Everglades National Park, M. C. Kolipinski and A. L. Higer: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report, Tallahassee, Florida, 1969
11. Dade County Agriculture, Metropolitan Dade County, Miami Florida, 1971
12. Environmental Problems in South Florida, The Environmental Studies Group for the National Academy of Engineering, Washington, D. C., 1969
13. Organochlorine Insecticide Residues in Everglades National Park and Loxahatchee Wildlife Refuge, Florida, M. C. Kolipinski, A. L. Higer, and M. L. Yates: Pesticides Monitoring Journal Volume 5, No. 3, 1971
14. Sampling Procedures and Problems in Determining Pesticide Residues in the Hydrologic Environment, H. R. Feltz and J. K. Culbertson: Pesticide Monitoring Journal, Volume 6, No. 3, 1972
15. Epidemiologic Studies of the Effects of Pesticides on the General Population, J. Davies: Report of the Secretaries Commission on Pesticides and their Relationship to Environmental Health, U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D. C., 1969
16. Temperature Studies, Lower Biscayne Bay, Florida, L. B. Tebo, R. L. Estes, and R. R. Lassiter: Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, Washington, D. C., 1968
17. The Beneficial Uses of Zones of High Transmissivities in the Florida Subsurface for Water Storage and Waste Disposal, R. O. Vernon: Florida Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Geology, Information Circular No. 70, Tallahassee, Florida, 1970
18. Orientation, J. T. Cox: Orientation Paper for the Advisory Task Forces, Metropolitan Dade County Planning Department, Miami, Florida, 1973

1. Regression Model Developed by Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District under contract issued as part of the South Florida Ecological Study. Original survey participation rate data were provided by the Florida Division of Recreation and Parks, 1972

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