ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


 The authors would like to express their gratitude to members of the Florida Geological Survey staff and other individuals who contributed to this report. Special thanks to Dr. Thomas Scott for his input and discussions related to the lithostratigraphy and structure of Tertiary rocks in Florida. Also thanks to Dr. Jim Tull for fruitful discussions regarding faulting and fracturing theory.

 Graduate Research Assistants Clay Kelly, Tom Seal, and Bob Fisher are thanked for their assistance in describing lithologic samples contained in this report. Thanks to Frank Rupert and Clay Kelly for identifying benthic foraminifera and Mitch Covington for evaluating nannofossils for this study. Thanks to Clay Kelly, Diane Brien and Elizabeth Doll for digitizing geophysical logs used in this report.

 Special thanks are extended to Jim Jones and Ted Kiper for preparing figures for this report and to Cindy Collier for typing the manuscript.

 The authors are also grateful to Joseph Haberfeld, John Armstrong, Jim McNeal, Rich Deuerling and Marion Fugitt of the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation for their input and interest in this study and for arranging funding for this project under DER Contract Grant #WM 351.

 Finally, the authors gratefully acknowledge those staff members of the Florida Geological Survey who reviewed the manuscript: Jon Arthur, Paulette Bond, Ken Campbell, Jacqueline Lloyd, Ed Lane, Dr. Walt Schmidt, and Dr. Thomas Scott.