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No land animals were present in Florida prior to the Miocene. The largest deposits of rock phosphate in the United States are found in Florida. [1] Most of this is in Bone Valley in central and west-central Florida. [2] Extended systems of underwater caves, sinkholes and springs are found throughout the state and supply most of the water used ...
March 30: Florida Territory is organized combining East Florida and West Florida. April 17: Florida's first civilian governor, William Pope Duval takes office. August 12: Jackson and Duval County, Florida's first two counties are formed. 1824: Florida's first true lighthouse built in St. Augustine.
The history of Florida can be traced to when the first Paleo-Indians began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14,000 years ago. [1] They left behind artifacts and archeological evidence. Florida's written history begins with the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in 1513 made the first textual records.
Its geologic history is also complex. The rock underlying Florida was originally part of Gondwana and did not become part of North America until the Permian, when Pangaea formed. During the Mesozoic Pangaea began to divide again and Florida was left attached to North America. [4]
Depiction of the Gulf Trough over Florida. The Gulf Trough , also known as the Suwanee Straits , [ 1 ] is an ancient geologic feature of Florida present during the Paleogene period. A strong marine current , similar to the Gulf Stream , scoured the trough from southwest to northeast.
Alachua County, Florida and Miocene shoreline based on the Florida Geologic Survey. Florida during the Miocene Florida during the Pleistocene. The Haile Quarry or Haile sites are an Early Miocene and Pleistocene assemblage of vertebrate fossils located in the Haile quarries, Alachua County, northern Florida.
Florida Geological Survey. Weems, Robert E.; Edwards, Lucy E. (2001). Geology of Oligocene, Miocene, and Younger Deposits in the Coastal Area of Georgia, Bulletin 131 (PDF) (Report). Atlanta, Georgia: Georgia Geologic Survey. USGS: Florida Geology Archived 2009-11-28 at the Wayback Machine; Paleobiology database: Love Bone Bed Collection
c. 1025 – al-Biruni publishes the Kitāb fī Taḥqīq mā li-l-Hind (Researches on India), in which he discusses the geology of India and hypothesizes that it was once a sea. [ 1 ] 1027 – Avicenna publishes The Book of Healing , in which he hypothesizes on two causes of mountains .