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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780807857861 |
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Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
Publication date: | 02/26/2007 |
Series: | Southern Gateways Guides |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 320 |
Sales rank: | 486,458 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Mary-Russell Roberson is a freelance writer living in Durham, North Carolina.
Table of Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
How to Use this Book xiii
The Changing Face of the Carolinas over Geologic Time 1
How to Read Rocks 6
Adding to the Body of Geologic Knowledge 18
Geologic Time 27
The Geologic History of the Carolinas 31
Field Trips: Map of the field-trip locations 46
The Blue Ridge
Chimney Rock Park: Stretched, Folded, Cracked, and Faulted 49
DuPont State Forest: Waterfalls Galore 56
Whiteside Mountain: A Geologic Puzzle 62
Grandfather Mountain: From Valley to Peak in 750 Million Years 68
Linville Falls: Falls, Faults, and Geologic Windows 75
Mount Mitchell State Park: Which Peak Is the Tallest and Why 81
Stone Mountain State Park: A Beautiful Bare Mountain 90
Woodall Shoals: Beautiful Rocks That Have Been Through a Lot 97
Caesars Head and Table Rock State Parks: The View from the Blue Ridge Escarpment 102
The Piedmont
South Mountains State Park: Stuck between a Continent and a Hard Place 113
Crowders Mountain State Park: A Mountain of Quartz and Blue Daggers 121
Reed Gold Mine: The Glory Days of Gold 127
Pilot Mountain State Park: Beach Sands in a Mountain 135
Morrow Mountain State Park: A Beautiful Quarry 143
Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area: A Mine with a View 151
The Museum of Life and Science and Penny's Bend: Diabase Sills in the Durham Triassic Basin 156
Landsford Canal State Park: Transportation and Geology 164
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: Gems and Meteorites 170
Raven Rock State Park: Everything's Happening at the Fall Zone 178
Medoc Mountain State Park: Granite and Grapes 185
Forty Acre Rock: The Battle between Rock and the Forces of Erosion 190
The Coastal Plain
The Roanoke River: From the Mountains to the Sea 199
Sugarloaf Mountain in Sand Hills State Forest: Sand and Longleaf 208
Cliffs of the Neuse State Park: Under the Sea 215
Santee State Park: Mule-Eating Sinkholes 220
Jones Lake State Park: The Mystery of the Carolina Bays 224
Flanner Beach: The Rise and Fall of Sea Level 232
Jockey's Ridge State Park: A Mountain of Sand 238
Oregon Inlet: The Fickle Nature of Barrier Islands and Inlets 247
Carolina Beach State Park: Sugarloaf, Shells, and Sinkholes 254
Colonial Dorchester State Historic Site: The Charleston Earthquake of 1886 260
Glossary 267
Additional Resources 281
Index 285
What People are Saying About This
A wonderful field guide to geologic features in North and South Carolina. . . . A delight to read.American Reference Books Annual
Organized superbly. . . . Well-suited for geology enthusiasts.Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Sciences
Well suited for geology enthusiasts. . . . Useful, entertaining, and informative.Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Sciences
The first of its kind. . . . Offers simple language and explanations, allowing the general public to read and enjoy it.The Independent Weekly, Durham, NC
Stewart is clearly enthusiastic . . . and Roberson . . . ensures that complex ideas are explained in a way that's intelligible to the general public.Mountain XPress Outdoors
Get out of the house. And take this book with you.Endeavors
A fascinating new book. . . . [Exploring the Geology of the Carolinas] will add much pleasure and instruction for tourists, both home-grown and from distant places.Winston-Salem Journal
A comprehensive, up-to-date, reader-friendly book about the geology of the Carolinas.GeoNews
With Exploring the Geology of the Carolinas, authors Kevin G. Stewart and Mary-Russell Roberson have put together an interesting amalgamation of textbook and travel guide.State (Columbia, SC)
This layman's survey of the geologic past of the Carolinas provides amateur scientists a look at nature's course through river basins, mountains, waterfalls, and coastal land formations. . . . With an easy-to-read introduction and detailed glossary, even everyday rockhounds can learn to read nature's writing.Charleston Magazine