Maurice,
From Wikipedia:
"The warmest peak of the Eemian interglacial (called the Sangamon here in North America) was around 125,000 years ago. Sea levels were 4-6 meters higher than they are now, indicating greater deglaciation than today, mostly from the partial melting of the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica."
Six meters could account for the beachline near here, and surely so if there was say a meter or so of uplift to go with it. And this would square with the geology here, which is described as Late Pleistocene.
And a bit earlier, though still during the Pleistocene all of Florida was under water, probably during earlier interglacials.
Another thing we have here in Florida are lots of limestone caves, many of them now full of water. There is one near here where they have found Indian campsites, indeed a whole village, now submerged, but were high and dry not long ago, probably at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation.
Now, six meters of sea level rise would put nearly every coastal city on earth at least partly under water. And this happened as recently as 125,000 years ago.
There you have it, the dreaded "global warming" and this ages before the SUV or even the Model T.
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