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The Key Largo
limestone is a Pleistocene, white to light gray marine
limestone, which contains numerous fossil corals. Some of these
corals have been partially dissolved by ground water and the
spaces remaining filled with crystalline calcite. The Key Largo
limestone is found at the land surface in the Florida Keys from
Sand Key to Loggerhead Key. An excellent exposure may be fiewed
at Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park, at mile marker
85.5 in the keys
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