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The Floridian Peninsula is a porous plateau of karst limestone sitting atop bedrock known as the Florida Platform.The emergent portion of the platform was created during the Eocene to Oligocene as the Gulf Trough filled with silts, clays, and sands.
The part of the Miami Limestone forming the Atlantic Coastal Ridge and the lower Florida Keys is an oolitic grainstone which includes fossils of corals, echinoids, mollusks, and algae. The oolitic formation in the lower Florida Keys has less quartz sand and fewer fossils than does the oolitic formation on the mainland. [3]
Land development and water use have transformed the state, primarily through drainage and infill of the wetlands that once covered most of the peninsula. Much of Florida consists of karst limestone veined with water-filled caves and sinkholes, [2] which provide homes to many species of aquatic life, some unique to particular Florida locations. [3]
In west-central Florida, north Florida, and along the updip margin of the system, the limestone crops out and the aquifer system is unconfined. Where low-permeability clays of the upper confining unit are present and substantial, the system is confined and groundwater is contained under pressure. The upper confining unit is particularly thick ...
^ Florida's state gem, moonstone, was adopted to highlight Florida's role in the United States' Lunar program, which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [81] ^ Since 1983, Massachusetts has had 3 other official state rocks: State Historical Rock (Plymouth Rock), State Explorer Rock (Dighton Rock), and State Building and Monument Stone . In ...
Water leaving the lake in the wet season forms a slow-moving river 60 miles (97 km) wide and over 100 miles (160 km) long, flowing southward across a limestone shelf to Florida Bay at the southern end of the state. The Everglades experiences a wide range of weather patterns, from frequent flooding in the wet season to drought in the dry season.
First-time homebuyers who want to live in Florida have some encouraging news. The Sunshine State's number of homes for sale increased by 40.1% over the summer compared with the previous year,...
Key Largo Limestone in relation to other surface formations in South Florida. The Key Largo Limestone is a geologic formation in Florida.It is a fossilized coral reef. The formation is exposed along the upper and middle Florida Keys from Soldier Key (at the north end of the Florida Keys) to the Bahia Honda Channel (at the west end of Bahia Honda Key).