Florida is part of the Florida Platform, a plateau of sedimentary rocks of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras sitting atop a basement of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks of Proterozoic, Paleozo
The structure of the Florida platform, the foundation of which came from the African continent over 200 million years ago.
The Iapetus Ocean existed in the late Neoproterozoic and early Paleozoic eras of the geologic timescale. It was in the Southern Hemisphere, between the paleocontinents of Laurentia, Baltica and Avalon
Reconstruction of how the Iapetus Ocean and surrounding continents might have been arranged during the late Ediacaran period