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The structure of the Florida platform, the foundation of which came from the African Plate over 200 million years ago. The Floridian peninsula is a porous plateau of karst limestone sitting atop bedrock known as the Florida Platform.
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).
Miami Limestone (formerly Miami Oolite, orange on map) in relation to other formations in South Florida. The Miami Limestone, originally called Miami Oolite, is a geologic formation of limestone in southeastern Florida. Miami Limestone forms the Atlantic Coastal Ridge in southeastern Florida, near the coast in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami Dade ...
Let us sing an ode to ooids, the tiny, roly-poly balls of broken shells that formed South Florida’s oolite limestone bedrock. South Florida geology 101: Lessons in the rock about future risks ...
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
South Florida geology 101: Lessons in the rock about future risks from sea rise ... Barranco’s house is perched on a limestone bluff overlooking South Bayshore Drive, which protected it when ...
Keystone is a type of limestone, or coral rag, quarried in the Florida Keys, in particular from Windley Key fossil quarry, which is now a State Park of Florida. The limestone is Pleistocene in age, and the rock primarily consists of scleractinian coral, such as Elkhorn coral and Brain coral. Example of fossil Brain coral (Diploria) at the ...
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. The assemblage was discovered during phosphate mining, which began in the late 1940s. [1] Haile sites are found in the Alachua Formation. Two sites within the Ocala Limestone ...