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Floridan aquifer

Index Floridan aquifer

The Floridan aquifer system, composed of the Upper and Lower Floridan aquifers, is a thick sequence of Paleogene carbonate rock which spans an area of about 100,000 square miles (260,000 km2) in the southeastern United States. [1]

69 relations: Alabama, Anhydrite, Aquifer, Artesian aquifer, Bartow, Florida, Biscayne Aquifer, Carbonate rock, Cave diving, Clastic rock, Discharge (hydrology), Dolostone, Facies, Fernandina Beach, Florida, Fertilizer, Florida, Fort Myers, Florida, Fountain of Youth, Garald G. Parker, Geologist, Georgia (U.S. state), Groundwater, Gulf Trough, Holocene, Hydraulic head, Hydraulics, Hydrogeology, Hydrology, Ichetucknee Springs State Park, Jacksonville, Florida, Juniper Springs, Karst, Kissingen Springs, Lake Jackson (Tallahassee, Florida), Limestone, Lithology, Micrite, Miocene, Mississippi, Oligocene, Orlando, Florida, Paleocene, Paleogene, Peace River (Florida), Phosphogypsum, Phosphoric acid, Phosphorite, Pliocene, Radium Springs, Georgia, Rainbow Springs, Savannah River, ..., Savannah, Georgia, Silver Springs (attraction), Sinkhole, South Carolina, Spring (hydrology), Surficial aquifer, Tallahassee, Florida, Tampa, Florida, Tertiary, Three Sisters Springs (Florida), United States Geological Survey, Valdosta, Georgia, Wakulla County, Florida, Wakulla Springs, Water supply, Water wars in Florida, Weeki Wachee Springs, Winter Park, Florida, Woodville Karst Plain. Expand index (19 more) »

Alabama

Alabama is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Anhydrite

Anhydrite is a mineral—anhydrous calcium sulfate, CaSO4.

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Aquifer

An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock, rock fractures or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt).

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Artesian aquifer

An artesian aquifer is a confined aquifer containing groundwater under positive pressure.

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Bartow, Florida

Bartow is the county seat of Polk County, Florida, United States.

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Biscayne Aquifer

The Biscayne Aquifer, named after Biscayne Bay, is a surficial aquifer.

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Carbonate rock

Carbonate rocks are a class of sedimentary rocks composed primarily of carbonate minerals.

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Cave diving

Cave diving is underwater diving in water-filled caves.

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Clastic rock

Clastic rocks are composed of fragments, or clasts, of pre-existing minerals and rock.

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Discharge (hydrology)

In hydrology, discharge is the volumetric flow rate of water that is transported through a given cross-sectional area.

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Dolostone

Dolostone or dolomite rock is a sedimentary carbonate rock that contains a high percentage of the mineral dolomite, CaMg(CO3)2.

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Facies

In geology, a facies (pronounced variously as, or; plural also 'facies') is a body of rock with specified characteristics, which can be any observable attribute of rocks such as their overall appearance, composition, or condition of formation, and the changes that may occur in those attributes over a geographic area.

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Fernandina Beach, Florida

Fernandina Beach is a city in Nassau County, Florida, United States, on Amelia Island.

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Fertilizer

A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English; see spelling differences) is any material of natural or synthetic origin (other than liming materials) that is applied to soils or to plant tissues to supply one or more plant nutrients essential to the growth of plants.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Fort Myers, Florida

Fort Myers or Ft.

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Fountain of Youth

The Fountain of Youth is a spring that supposedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks or bathes in its waters.

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Garald G. Parker

Garald G. "Jerry" Parker, Sr. (1905–2000) was a hydrologist and is known as the "Father of Florida groundwater hydrology." Parker also named the principal artesian aquifer the Floridan Aquifer.

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Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes that shape it.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Groundwater

Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.

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Gulf Trough

The Gulf Trough, also known as the Suwanee Straits, is an ancient geologic feature of Florida present during the Paleogene period, a period of roughly.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch.

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Hydraulic head

Hydraulic head or piezometric head is a specific measurement of liquid pressure above a geodetic datum.

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Hydraulics

Hydraulics (from Greek: Υδραυλική) is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids.

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Hydrogeology

Hydrogeology (hydro- meaning water, and -geology meaning the study of the Earth) is the area of geology that deals with the distribution and movement of groundwater in the soil and rocks of the Earth's crust (commonly in aquifers).

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Hydrology

Hydrology is the scientific study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water on Earth and other planets, including the water cycle, water resources and environmental watershed sustainability.

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Ichetucknee Springs State Park

Ichetucknee Springs State Park is a Florida State Park and National Natural Landmark located 4 miles (6 km) northwest of Fort White off State Road 47 and State Road 238.

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Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Florida and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States.

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Juniper Springs

Juniper Springs (referred to locally as "the Springs"), located in the Ocala National Forest east of Ocala, Florida, is a natural spring that forms the headwaters of Juniper Creek that winds its way to Lake George in the Saint Johns River.

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Karst

Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum.

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Kissingen Springs

Kissingen Spring (also spelled Kissengen) was a natural spring formerly flowing in Polk County, Southwest Florida.

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Lake Jackson (Tallahassee, Florida)

Lake Jackson is a shallow, prairie lake on the north side of Tallahassee in Leon County, Florida, United States, with two major depressions or sinkholes known as Porter Sink and Lime Sink.

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Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

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Lithology

The lithology of a rock unit is a description of its physical characteristics visible at outcrop, in hand or core samples or with low magnification microscopy, such as colour, texture, grain size, or composition.

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Micrite

Micrite is a limestone constituent formed of calcareous particles ranging in diameter up to four μm formed by the recrystallization of lime mud.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Orange County.

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Paleocene

The Paleocene or Palaeocene, the "old recent", is a geological epoch that lasted from about.

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Paleogene

The Paleogene (also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene; informally Lower Tertiary or Early Tertiary) is a geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from the end of the Cretaceous Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Neogene Period Mya.

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Peace River (Florida)

The Peace River is a river in the southwestern part of the Florida peninsula, in the U.S.A..

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Phosphogypsum

Phosphogypsum refers to the calcium sulfate hydrate formed as a by-product of the production of fertilizer from phosphate rock.

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Phosphoric acid

Phosphoric acid (also known as orthophosphoric acid or phosphoric(V) acid) is a mineral (inorganic) and weak acid having the chemical formula H3PO4.

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Phosphorite

Phosphorite, phosphate rock or rock phosphate is a non-detrital sedimentary rock which contains high amounts of phosphate minerals.

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Pliocene

The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) Epoch is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years BP.

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Radium Springs, Georgia

Radium Springs is an unincorporated community located on the southeast outskirts of Albany in Dougherty County, Georgia, United States.

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Rainbow Springs

Rainbow Springs, formerly known as Blue Spring, is a first-magnitude artesian spring formation in Marion County, Florida, United States, several miles north of the city of Dunnellon.

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Savannah River

The Savannah River is a major river in the southeastern United States, forming most of the border between the states of South Carolina and Georgia.

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Savannah, Georgia

Savannah is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia and is the county seat of Chatham County.

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Silver Springs (attraction)

Silver Springs is a group of artesian springs that feed into the Silver River in Marion County, Florida.

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Sinkhole

A sinkhole, also known as a cenote, sink, sink-hole, swallet, swallow hole, or doline (the different terms for sinkholes are often used interchangeably), is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer.

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South Carolina

South Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Spring (hydrology)

A spring is any natural situation where water flows from an aquifer to the Earth's surface.

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Surficial aquifer

Surficial aquifers are shallow aquifers typically less than thick, but larger surficial aquifers of about have been mapped.

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Tallahassee, Florida

Tallahassee is the capital of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Tampa, Florida

Tampa is a major city in, and the county seat of, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.

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Tertiary

Tertiary is the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago, a timespan that occurs between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary.

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Three Sisters Springs (Florida)

Three Sisters Springs are located on the Crystal River, in Citrus County, Florida, United States, at.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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Valdosta, Georgia

Valdosta is a city in and the county seat of Lowndes County, located on the southern border of Georgia, United States.

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Wakulla County, Florida

Wakulla County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Wakulla Springs

Wakulla Springs is located south of Tallahassee, Florida and east of Crawfordville in Wakulla County, Florida at the crossroads of State Road 61 and State Road 267.

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Water supply

Water supply is the provision of water by public utilities commercial organisations, community endeavors or by individuals, usually via a system of pumps and pipes.

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Water wars in Florida

According to the Natural Resources Defense Council’s recent study, Florida is one of 14 states predicted to face “high risk” water shortages by the year 2050.

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Weeki Wachee Springs

Weeki Wachee Springs is a natural tourist attraction located in Weeki Wachee, Florida, where underwater performances by "mermaids", women wearing fish tails as well as other fanciful outfits, can be viewed in an aquarium-like setting in the spring of the Weeki Wachee River.

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Winter Park, Florida

Winter Park is a suburban city in Orange County, Florida, United States.

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Woodville Karst Plain

The Woodville Karst Plain is a karst area that runs from Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. to the Gulf of Mexico separated by the Cody Scarp.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floridan_aquifer

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