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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.
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).
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 counties. It also lies under the eastern (Miami-Dade County) part of the Everglades, Florida Bay, and ...
Formerly a geologic group, Ocala Limestone was downgraded to formation status by T.M. Scott in 1991. [1] The Ocala Limestone consists of almost pure limestones with occasional dolomites . It can be subdivided into both lower and upper facies with the lower facies composed of a whitish to cream-colored, fine to medium grained, poorly to ...
The Avon Park Formation on the crest of the Ocala Platform. The Avon Park Formation is a Middle Eocene geologic formation and is the oldest exposed sediments in Florida , United States . Age
Pages in category "Geologic formations of Florida" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. ... Statenville Formation; Suwannee Limestone; T.
Five geologic formations form the surface of the southern portion of Florida: the Tamiami Formation, Caloosahatchee Formation, Anastasia Formation, Miami Limestone, and the Fort Thompson Formation. The Tamiami Formation is a compression of highly permeable light-colored fossiliferous sands and pockets of quartz, 150 feet (46
An outcropping of the Anastasia Formation seen along the shoreline of Blowing Rocks Preserve at low tide. 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 ...