7 Education Places of worship Trans-Atlantic trade also resulted in an increasing urbanization: in European countries facing the Atlantic urbanization grew from 8% in 1300 10.1% in 1500 to 24.5% in 1850; in other European countries from 10% in 1300 11.4% in 1500 to 17% in 1850 Likewise GDP doubled in Atlantic countries but rose by only 30% in the rest of Europe by end of the 17th century the volume of the Trans-Atlantic trade had surpassed that of the Mediterranean trade. . Miami River Five geologic formations form the surface of the southern portion of Florida: the Tamiami Formation Caloosahatchee Formation Anastasia Formation Miami Limestone and the Fort Thompson Formation the Tamiami Formation is a compression of highly permeable light colored fossiliferous sands and pockets of quartz 150 feet (46 m) thick It is named for the Tamiami Trail that follows the upper bedrock of the Big Cypress Swamp and underlies the southern portion of the Everglades Between the Tamiami Formation and Lake Okeechobee is the Caloosahatchee Formation named for the river over it Much less permeable this formation is highly calcitic and is composed of sandy shell marl clay and sand Water underneath the Caloosahatchee Formation is typically very mineralized Both the Tamiami and Caloosahatchee Formations developed during the Pliocene Epoch.

1850 87,445 60.5% In 2008 7% of FIU students were international students Of those the most popular countries of origin were: China (20%) India (13%) Jamaica (10%) Venezuela (6%) Colombia (5%) and Trinidad and Tobago (4%), FDOT Map of Miami-Dade County Florida, These are the economic risks explained by Professor Okolo: "This comes from the inability of a country to meet its financial obligations the changing of foreign-investment or/and domestic fiscal or monetary policies the effect of exchange-rate and interest rate make it difficult to conduct international business." Moreover it can be a risk for a company to operate in a country and they may experience an unexpected economic crisis after establishing the subsidiary Economic risks is the likelihood that economic management will cause drastic changes in a country's business environment that hurt the profit and other goals of a business enterprise in practice the biggest problem arising from economic mismanagement has been inflation Historically many governments have expanded their domestic money supplying misguided attempts to stimulate economic activity. U.S News & World Report 410 Tri-Rail fare zone boundary! . FIU is ranked 2nd in the U.S. for granting biology bachelor's degrees and 6th in granting master's degrees to minorities according to Diverse Issues in Higher Education, National Universities 187 6.3 Drainage Historical population, 1982 64.7% 1,739,553 35.3% 949,013 Rum-runners used the Everglades as a hiding spot during Prohibition; it was so vast there were never enough law enforcement officers to patrol it the arrival of the railroad and the discovery that adding trace elements like copper was the remedy for crops sprouting and dying quickly soon created a population boom New towns such as Moore Haven Clewiston and Belle Glade sprouted like the crops Sugarcane became the primary crop grown in South Florida Miami experienced a second real estate boom that earned a developer in Coral Gables $150 million Undeveloped land north of Miami sold for $30,600 an acre in 1925 Miami newspapers published editions weighing over 7 pounds (3.2 kg) most of it in real estate advertising Waterfront property was the most highly valued Mangrove trees were cut down and replaced with palm trees to improve the view Acres of South Florida slash pine were cleared Some of the pine was for lumber but most of the pine forests in Dade County were cleared for development. Pembroke Pines 154,750 137,427 Broward Faculty of the PhD program in social welfare rank 4th in the United States in their scholarly accomplishment according to Academic Analytics FIU faculty were the only social work faculty in Florida to rank in the Top 10 (December 2007).