Description of the Late Holocene South‐east Saline Everglades, Florida palustrine depositional environment with comparisons to other Holocene environments

A transgressive palustrine depositional model is described for the South‐east Saline Everglades, Florida. The origin, development and termination of freshwater carbonate mud (marl) deposition along the very low gradient Late Pleistocene carbonate ramp are responses to changing rates of rising sea level during the Late Holocene. The onset of the Late Holocene is defined by a decrease in the rate of sea‐level rise from between 2 and 3 to