Full title: Field Excursions in the Carolinas: Guides to the 2019 GSA Southeastern Section Meeting

Editors: John Chadwick and Steven C. Jaume'

This guidebook provides detailed itineraries of three field trips associated with the 2019 meeting of the GSA Southeastern Section in Charleston, South Carolina. The first chapter outlines the fossiliferous deposits near Charleston historically referred to as the "Ashley Phosphate Beds," which include sharks, rays, sea turtles, whales, and other Oligocene to Pleistocene fossils. The second chapter explores how hydrology has shaped Charleston and how engineers, public officials, and citizens incorporate new technologies in design to increase community resiliency. The third chapter describes the variety of modern traces that can be observed in the coastal setting of Edisto Island near Charleston. These include burrows, tracks, borings, and other signs of terrestrial and marginal-marine invertebrates and vertebrates in sediments, shells, and wood.

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Published: 3/22/2019

ISBN Number: 978-0-8137-0053-3

Pages: 32

Product Category: Field Guides