The Swamp, The Everglades, Florida and the Politics of Paradise by Michael Grunwald

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…”