You see, my city is built on porous limestone rock, and the water will just come up through it.
你看,我的城市建在多孔的石灰岩上,水会从这里涌上来。
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Rain sinks through the porous limestone down to groundwater levels, and consequently, no river runs through the land.
雨水通过多孔的石灰石下沉到地下水位,因此没有河流流经这片土地。
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If you take into account Florida's landscape, it has got a lot of that very porous limestone that allows the rain, the acidic rain to sort of percolate down into the soil forming this cave like sinkholes here.