Does Florida have bedrock? I thought it was sand all the way down.
I thought mud was the bottom of a swamp.
The Floridian peninsula is a porous plateau of karst limestone sitting atop bedrock known as the Florida Platform. ... The limestone is topped with sandy soils deposited as ancient beaches over millions of years as global sea levels rose and fell.
I thought it was turtles.
It must have. Otherwise, the Vehicle Assembly Building ad Cape Canaveral would have sunk into the soil years ago.
Freepers are woefully uninformed about south Florida rock
Coconut grove...just south is downtown Miami has rock outcropping
Limestone
It varies in Dade county how deep it is
Miami Limestone (Pleistocene) at surface, covers 92 % of this area
The Miami Limestone (formerly the Miami Oolite), named by Sanford (1909), occurs at or near the surface in southeastern peninsular Florida from Palm Beach County to Dade and Monroe Counties. It forms the Atlantic Coastal Ridge and extends beneath the Everglades where it is commonly covered by thin organic and freshwater sediments. The Miami Limestone occurs on the mainland and in the southern Florida Keys from Big Pine Key to the Marquesas Keys. From Big Pine Key to the mainland, the Miami Limestone is replaced by the Key Largo Limestone. To the north, in Palm Beach County, the Miami Limestone grades laterally northward into the Anastasia Formation. The Miami Limestone consists of two facies, an oolitic facies and a bryozoan facies (Hoffmeister et al. [1967]). The oolitic facies consists of white to orangish gray, poorly to moderately indurated, sandy, oolitic limestone (grainstone) with scattered concentrations of fossils. The bryozoan facies consists of white to orangish gray, poorly to well indurated, sandy, fossiliferous limestone (grainstone and packstone). Beds of quartz sand are also present as unindurated sediments and indurated limey sandstones. Fossils present include mollusks, bryozoans, and corals. Molds and casts of fossils are common. The highly porous and permeable Miami Limestone forms much of the Biscayne Aquifer of the surficial aquifer system.
On average you hit limestone in 3-4 feet after sandy soil