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  2. Geology of Florida - Wikipedia

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    Geology of Florida. 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. The emergent portion of the platform was created during the Eocene to Oligocene as the Gulf ...

  3. Geography of Florida - Wikipedia

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    Geography of Florida. A map of Florida, as seen from outer space. Much of the state of Florida is situated on a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Straits of Florida. Spanning two time zones, it extends to the northwest into a panhandle along the northern Gulf of Mexico. It is bordered on the north by the states ...

  4. Category:Landforms of Florida - Wikipedia

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    This category has the following 19 subcategories, out of 19 total. Landforms of Florida by county ‎ (70 C) Bodies of water of Florida ‎ (12 C, 5 P) Wetlands of Florida ‎ (3 C, 32 P)

  5. List of National Natural Landmarks in Florida - Wikipedia

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    Natural Landmarks in Florida range from 593 to 14,000 acres (240.0 to 5,665.6 ha; 0.9 to 21.9 sq mi) in size. Owners include private individuals and several state and federal agencies. The National Natural Landmarks Program is administered by the National Park Service, a branch of the Department of the Interior. The National Park Service ...

  6. Category:Lists of landforms of Florida - Wikipedia

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    Lists of landforms of the United States by state. Florida geography-related lists.

  7. Everglades - Wikipedia

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    25 feet (7.6 m) [1] The Everglades is a natural region of flooded grasslands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin within the Neotropical realm. The system begins near Orlando with the Kissimmee River, which discharges into the vast but shallow Lake Okeechobee.

  8. Ecology of Florida - Wikipedia

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    The Florida Reef (also known as the Great Florida Reef, Florida reefs, Florida Reef Tract and Florida Keys Reef Tract) is the only living coral barrier reef in the continental United States. [12] It lies a few miles seaward of the Florida Keys, is about 4 miles (6 to 7 km) wide and extends (along the 20 meter depth contour) 270 km (170 mi) from ...

  9. Geography and ecology of the Everglades - Wikipedia

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    Miami is on the right side. Before drainage, the Everglades, a region of tropical wetlands in southern Florida, were an interwoven mesh of marshes and prairies covering 4,000 square miles (10,000 km 2). The Everglades is both a vast watershed that has historically extended from Lake Okeechobee 100 miles (160 km) south to Florida Bay (around one ...