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Florentin
Maurrasse
Professor
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1973
Diplome d'Etudes Supérieures (Stratigraphy-Paleontology),
Marseilles, 1967
Licence des Sciences, Marseilles, 1966
Office:
PC 346B
Phone: 305-348-2350
email: Florentin.Maurrasse@fiu.edu
Biostratigraphy,
Sedimentology
Stratigraphy
of the Caribbean region; Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary
problems; deep sea sedimentation
Research
Interests
Stratigraphy,
paleoceanography, and paleogeography of the Caribbean.
Radiolarian and smaller foraminiferal biostratigraphy.
Litho- and biostratigraphy of deep sea sequences in
the Caribbean Sea and exposed deep sea sequences on
land. Climate changes as recorded in pelagic sequences.
The Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in southern Haiti and
other Caribbean sites.
Other
interests include carbonate facies development and distribution
in the Plio-Pleistocene carbonates of South Florida
and their relation to the region's hydrogeology.
Selected
Publications
Maurrasse,
F.J-M.R., and G. Sen. 1991. Catastrophic wave deposits
in the Beloc Formation, Southern Peninsula of Haiti,
and its relation to the K/T boundary impact event
in the Caribbean. Joint Meeting of IGCP Projects,
p. 93, 216, and 303, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Maurrasse,
F.J-M.R., and Sen, G. 1991. Impacts, tsunamis, and
the Haitian Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary layer.
Science 252: 1690-1693.
Maurrasse,
F.J-M.R. (editor). 1987. Symposium on South Florida
Geology. Miami Geological Society Memoir 3, 233
pages.
Maurrasse,
F.J-M.R., F. Pierre-Louis, and J.J-G. Rigaud. 1985.
Upper Cretaceous to Lower Paleocene pelagic calcareous
deposits in the Southern Peninsula of Haiti: their
bearing on the problem of the Cretaceous-Tertiary
boundary. Transactions, 4th Latin American Geological
Congress, Trinidad, July, 1979, 328-337.
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