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2. Blowing Rocks Preserve - Wikipedia

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   Blowing Rocks Preserve is an environmental preserve on Jupiter Island in Hobe Sound, Martin County, Florida, USA. Owned by The Nature Conservancy , it contains the largest limestone outcropping on the state's east coast, part of the Anastasia Formation.

3. Miami Limestone - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Miami Rock Ridge - Wikipedia

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   The globally imperiled pine rockland community, which also encompassed the Florida Keys and The Bahamas, supported numerous endemic plant species; 20 percent occur nowhere else in the world. [7] The communities of the Miami Rock Ridge are maintained by wildfires, including natural fires caused by lightning strikes; this affects the vegetation ...

5. Environment of Florida - Wikipedia

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   The Great Florida Birding Trail, a 2000-mile (3200 km) long trail, is composed of 489 locations throughout the state which are optimal observation sites. [ 63 ] Sport fishing is also popular in Florida; over 250 different species of fish (including 73 non-native species) can be found in Florida.

6. Geology of Florida - Wikipedia

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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 ...

7. Anastasia Formation - Wikipedia

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   Coquina from the Anastasia Formation (Quaternary; St. Augustine, Florida) The Anastasia Formation is composed of quartz sands and calcite coquina , with sporadic instances of fossil debris. [ 7 ] Coloration of the formation varies from a light grey tone to a soft orange-brown.