The highly porous and permeable Miami Limestone forms much of the Biscayne Aquifer of the surficial aquifer system. Fossils present include mollusks, bryozoans, and corals. Beds of quartz sand are also present as unindurated sediments and indurated limey sandstones. The bryozoan facies consists of white to orangish gray, poorly to well indurated, sandy, fossiliferous limestone (grainstone and packstone). The oolitic facies consists of white to orangish gray, poorly to moderately indurated, sandy, oolitic limestone (grainstone) with scattered concentrations of fossils. The Miami Limestone consists of two facies, an oolitic facies and a bryozoan facies (Hoffmeister et al. To the north, in Palm Beach County, the Miami Limestone grades laterally northward into the Anastasia Formation. From Big Pine Key to the mainland, the Miami Limestone is replaced by the Key Largo Limestone. OOLITE A GROUP SHOW OF 12 ARTISTS Decem JanuSELECTED WORKS & INSTALLATION VIEWS Press Release Csar Trasobares Untitled Stone, 1978 mixed media sculpture 13 x 11 x 10 inches Robert DeYoung Portrait in Gray with Green, 2017 mixed media on canvas 48 x 36 inches Tony Vazquez-Figueroa M.O. The Miami Limestone occurs on the mainland and in the southern Florida Keys from Big Pine Key to the Marquesas Keys. It forms the Atlantic Coastal Ridge and extends beneath the Everglades where it is commonly covered by thin organic and freshwater sediments. Miami is the epicenter of the most contemporary art scene in the state, and the construction boom that seems to last decades, will always be built upon oolite, beyond the foundations and onto the most recognizable features of buildings old and new.The Miami Limestone (formerly the Miami Oolite), named by Sanford (1909), occurs at or near the surface in southeastern peninsular Florida from Palm Beach County to Dade and Monroe Counties. The story of oolite has become an artistic opportunity with results that celebrate the bedrock of Florida and the remarkable diversity of materials, artistic and structural, that have come together over the years. The shapes of the stones, oval and smooth, are the most basic units to appear in much of the work in the exhibition, especially as they are cemented into our familiar keystone or coral rock. When presented with the idea of using oolite as the focus of an exhibition, each one considered the stone from a different perspective related to their own memories and practice and to a new historical and ecological view of their surroundings that they may have taken for granted, but now merit artistic consideration. This collective exhibition includes the work of an eclectic group of 12 artists working in South Florida, upon a foundation of oolite. For artists in South Florida looking for inspiration in their own distinctive environment, it is ecological, geological, available, and always interesting. The 5 Rare Plants in the Shoofly Oolite Formation. Few other lands in Idaho support such a rich suite of rare species in such a small area. It is a distinctive feature of building facades, stairways, and patio flooring that ages to reveal a natural patina formed over the vestiges of fossils, coral, shells and small bits of marine life. The physical and chemical properties of the Shoofly Oolite provide the foundation for the unique set of plants and fossils found here. It is a coral limestone (also called keystone) consisting of the calcareous skeletons of corals often cemented by calcium carbonate, with a few spherical inclusions (oolites). In Florida, coral rock is a variation of oolite and our most familiar building material and the foundation of our landscape. The name derives from the Ancient Greek word for egg. According to the dictionary, oolite or oölite (egg stone) is a sedimentary rock formed from ooids, spherical grains composed of concentric layers. South Florida is mainly composed of oolitic limestone, which was formed when shallow seas covered the area between periods of glaciation and deposits of limestone were consolidated and eroded during later exposure above the ocean surface. JESSIE LAINO | GABRIELA NOELLE | WILLIAM OSORIO | ARTURO RODRÍGUEZĬÉSAR TRASOBARES | TREK6 | TONY VAZQUEZ-FIGUEROA | SINUHE VEGA NEGRIN JOHN WILLIAM BAILLY | JENNIFER BASILE | TIM BUWALDA | ROBERT DEYOUNG
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