Florida: The Limestone Megastructure Revealed (with music)

What if I told you Florida isn’t really a peninsula, but the exposed top of a massive

limestone platform built from ancient sea life? Millions of years ago,

this whole region was under warm, shallow seas. When corals, shells,

and sea life died, their skeletons piled up and hardened into a giant slab of limestone,

which is the bedrock Florida stands on today. The real Florida is mostly underwater

— the Florida Platform stretches far into the Gulf and Atlantic. Limestone dissolves easily,

which is why Florida is world-famous for sinkholes, underground rivers, and Swiss-cheese-like

caverns. That same dissolving process created Florida’s world-famous freshwater springs