Colonial National Historical Park: Geologic resources inventory report
Thornberry-Ehrlich TL. 2016. Colonial National Historical Park: Geologic resources inventory report. Natural Resource Report. NPS/NRSS/GRD/NRR—2016/1237. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
The Geologic Resources Inventory (GRI) is one of 12 inventories funded by the National Park Service (NPS) Inventory and Monitoring Program. The Geologic Resources Division of the NPS Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Directorate administers the GRI. This report synthesizes discussions from a scoping meeting for Colonial National Historical Park (Virginia) on 1 May 2005 and a follow-up conference call on 12 November 2014. Scoping participants identified geologic resources of significance and geologic resource management issues and needs, as well as the status of geologic mapping. This report is a companion document to previously completed GRI GIS data. This GRI report was written for resource managers to support science-informed decision making. It may also be useful for interpretation. The report was prepared using available geologic information, and the NPS Geologic Resources Division conducted no new fieldwork in association with its preparation. Sections of the report discuss distinctive geologic features and processes within Colonial National Historical Park, highlight geologic issues facing resource managers, describe the geologic history leading to the present-day landscape, and provide information about the GRI GIS data. A poster (in pocket) illustrates these data. The Map Unit Properties Table (in pocket) summarizes report content for each geologic map unit. A glossary defines many of the geologic terms used in this text.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Thornberry-Ehrlich, Trista
- Date of Issue
- 2016-06
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- CAME , COLO , COLP , GRD , GRI , JAME , NRSS , YONB , YORK
- Keywords
- Abandoned Mineral and Disturbed Lands., and Coastal Engineering Structures, and Coastal Vulnerability, and Protection, Coastal Plain Sediments, COLO, Colonial National Historical Park, Flooding, Fluvial Features and Processes, Geologic Features, Geologic Hazards and Risks, Geologic History, Geologic Processes, Geologic Resource Management Issues, Geologic Resources Division, Geologic Resources Inventory, GRD, GRI, Groundwater Quantity and Quality, Hydrogeologic System at Yorktown Battlefield, Karst Landscape Management, Karst Topography and Cornwallis “Cave”, Map Unit Properties Table, Map Units, Monitoring, National Park Service, NPS, Paleontological Resource Inventory, Paleontological Resources, Resource Management, Sea Level Rise, Sediment Transport, Shoreline Erosion, Slope Features and Processes, Stormwater Management along Colonial Parkway and Upland Erosion, Subsurface Geologic Features and the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater, Virginia, Yorktown Formation Shrink-and-Swell Clays
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Geology and Soils | Geomorphology | Hillslope Features and Processes , Ecological Framework: Geology and Soils | Geomorphology | Coastal/Oceanographic Features and Processes , Ecological Framework: Geology and Soils | Geomorphology | Stream/River Channel Characteristics , Ecological Framework: Geology and Soils | Subsurface Geologic Processes | Cave/Karst Features and Processes , Ecological Framework: Geology and Soils | Paleontology | Paleontology