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  2. Geology of Florida - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Florida Platform - Wikipedia

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    The Florida peninsula is located on the eastern side of the platform, where in places it lies only 3 to 4 miles (4.8 to 6.4 km) from the platform's edge. On the gulf side the platform ends over 100 miles (160 km) to the west of the modern shoreline, where a massive cliff rises over 6,000 feet (1,800 m) from the 10,600 feet (3,200 m) depth of ...

  4. Blake Plateau - Wikipedia

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    The Blake Plateau and the associated Blake Ridge and Blake Basin are named for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer USC&GS George S. Blake, in service from 1874 to 1905, [2] which was the first ship to use steel cable for oceanographic operations and pioneered deep ocean and Gulf Stream [3] exploration. [4]

  5. Florida - Wikipedia

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    Tourism is a large portion of Florida's economy. Florida is home to the world's most visited theme park, the Magic Kingdom. [245] Florida is also home to the largest single-site employer in the United States, Walt Disney World. [246] PortMiami is the largest passenger port in the world and one of the largest cargo ports in the United States. [247]

  6. List of submarine topographical features - Wikipedia

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    An oceanic plateau is a large, relatively flat submarine region that rises well above the level of the ambient seabed. [50] While many oceanic plateaus are composed of continental crust , and often form a step interrupting the continental slope , some plateaus are undersea remnants of large igneous provinces .

  7. Geography of Florida - Wikipedia

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    At 345 feet (105 m) above mean sea level, Britton Hill in northern Walton County is the highest point in Florida and the lowest known highpoint of any U.S. state. [3] Much of the state south of Orlando is low-lying and fairly level; however, some places, such as Clearwater, feature vistas that rise 50 to 100 feet (15 to 30 m) above the water.

  8. Plateau - Wikipedia

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    Satellite image of the Tibetan Plateau between the Himalayan mountains to the south and the Taklamakan Desert to the north. In geology and physical geography, a plateau (/ p l ə ˈ t oʊ, p l æ ˈ t oʊ, ˈ p l æ t oʊ /; French:; pl.: plateaus or plateaux), [1] [2] also called a high plain or a tableland, is an area of a highland consisting of flat terrain that is raised sharply above the ...

  9. Coastal plain - Wikipedia

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    Florida's Everglades is a popular outdoor site on the Atlantic coastal plain.. A coastal plain (also coastal plains, coastal lowland, coastal lowlands) is an area of flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast.