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Richard Franz, Judy Bauer and Tom Morris 



Fig. 1. Map of Florida showing county locations. Numbers of caves 

 are shown for Alachua, Jackson, Marion, and Suwannee counties. Dots 

 indicated other important cavernous counties. 



(3), Lake (2), Washington (2), Dade (2), Holmes (1), Jefferson (1), 

 Pinellas (1), and Putnam (1) counties, Florida, and Decatur (1) and 

 Doughtery (1) counties, Georgia. Caves theoretically could exist anywhere 

 in Florida and south Georgia since most of this region is underlain 

 with extensive beds of Oligocene and Eocene limestones. These limestones 

 are components of the Floridan aquifer, while limestones in Dade 

 County are part of the Biscayne aquifer. 



