Geologic History of Florida: Major Events that Formed the Sunshine State

The saga of Florida’s geological development started approximately 700 million years ago. It began as the state’s basement rocks migrated nearly 12,600 kilometers from their position within a supercontinent at the Earth’s South Pole to their present location north of the equator, participating in the assembly and disassembly of one of Earth’s greatest supercontinents, Pangea.


In this complete geologic history of the Sunshine State, Albert Hine takes the reader on a journey that begins with ...