The Swamp, The Everglades, Florida and the Politics of Paradise by Michael Grunwald
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Chapter One, Grassy Water
“The First 300 Million Years (Abridged)”, p14.
“The Everglades showed up…around the time the Egyptians started building the pyramids.”
- “The story of how the Everglades formed stretches back a bit further. It began with a bang about 300 million years ago, after the fish but before the birds, with the cataclysmic shifts of tectonic plates that crunched the planet’s major landforms into a single supercontinent called Pangaea.”
- “About 100 million years later, plates shifted again, Pangaea split up again and North America dragged away a finger-shaped chunk of North Africa. That hijacked appendage became the foundation of the Florida peninsula, the Florida Platform…”
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