Professor of Geology
University of Florida
Ph.D.: 1968, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
randazzo@geology.ufl.edu
Research interests:
Carbonate sedimentology including modern and ancient environments of deposition, geochemical processes and diagenesis, water/rock interactions in carbonate aquifer systems, especially the origin of dolomite and porosity evolution in coastal aquifer mixing zones. Application of surface geophysical methods to the solution of environmental geology problems in karstic terranes.
Courses taught:
Historical Geology, Sedimentary Geology, Sedimentary Petrology, Carbonate Sedimentology
Representative publications:
Paleoecology of shallow marine carbonate environments. Middle Eocene of peninsular Florida. A.F. Randazzo, M. Kosters, D.S. Jones, and R.W. Portell. Sedimentary Geology, 66, 1-11, 1990.
Abandoned mine detection and stability assessment: Similarities to subsidence prediction for dissolution cavities. D.L. Smith, and A.F. Randazzo. in Applied Karst Geology, Proceedings of the Fourth Multi-disciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst. Rotterdam, Netherlands, A.A. Belkema, p. 135-142, 1993.
Water-rock interactions in a modern coastal mixing zone. C.M. Wicks, J.S. Herman, A.F. Randazzo, and J.L. Jee. Geol Soc of Amer Bulletin, 107, 1023-1032,1995.
The Geology of Florida. A.F. Randazzo and D.S. Jones, eds. University Press of Florida, 327 p., 1997.
The sedimentary platform of Florida: Mesozoic to Cenozoic. A.F. Randazzo, in: The Geology of Florida, A.F. Randazzo and D.S. Jones, eds., University Press of Florida, 39-56,1997.
Environmental geology of Florida. S.B. Upchurch and A.F. Randazzo, in: The Geology of Florida, A.F. Randazzo and D.S. Jones, eds., University Press of Florida, 217-250, 1997.
Geology of the Florida Keys. A.F. Randazzo and R.B. Halley, in: The Geology of Florida, A.F. Randazzo and D.S. Jones, eds., University Press of Florida, 251-260, 1997.