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  2. Key Largo Limestone - Wikipedia

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    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).

  3. Keystone (limestone) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Biscayne National Park - Wikipedia

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    The Key Largo Limestone is a fossilized coral reef formed during the Sangamonian Stage of about 75,000 to 125,000 years ago. The Miami Formation achieved its present form somewhat later, during a glacial period in which fresh water consolidated and cemented the lagoon deposits. [8] The Key Largo Limestone is a coarse stone formed from stony ...

  5. Dry Tortugas National Park - Wikipedia

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    Two stratigraphic units are exposed at the surface, the Key Largo Limestone and the Miami Limestone. The Key Largo Limestone are reefs up to 200 ft (61 m) thick, parallel to the shelf edge, consisting of hermatypic corals and calcarenites. The Miami Limestone is less than 49 ft (15 m) thick, and in general is found behind the Key Largo ...

  6. Florida Keys - Wikipedia

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    The limestone that eroded from the reef formed oolites in the shallow sea behind the reef, and together with the skeletal remains of bryozoans, formed the Miami Limestone that is the current surface bedrock of the lower Florida peninsula and the lower keys from Big Pine Key to Key West.

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  8. Florida Reef - Wikipedia

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    In order to provide better charts for ships sailing along the Florida Reef, the Florida Keys, including the reef, and the waters to the west of the Keys, including Biscayne Bay and Florida Bay, were surveyed in the 1850s. The United States Army Corps of Topographical Engineers established a base camp on Key Biscayne in 1849.

  9. College football winners and losers: Taking stock of the ...

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    Liberty: The loss to Kennesaw State almost assuredly ended any chance Liberty had of making the expanded College Football Playoff. After going undefeated a season ago and losing by 39 to Oregon in ...