Geology as applied to land-use management on Cumberland Island, Georgia
Mclemore WH, Swann CT, Wigley PB, Turlington MC, Henry VJ, Nash GJ, Martinez JO, Carver RE, Thurmond JT. 1981. Geology as applied to land-use management on Cumberland Island, Georgia. Contract No. CX5000-8-1563. National Park Service. Atlanta
Basic data on the geology of Cumberland Island National Seashore, with applications for land use and park management. Includes sections on geography of Cumberland Island and the surrounding region (including climate); general geology of the region, arranged by geologic era; stratigraphy; hydrogeology (well, aquifer, and groundwater characteristics); landforms and natural vegetation (beach, salt marshes, foredunes, interdune meadows, back dunes and other active dunes, stabilized dunes, inland marshes, interior forests); land use (marginal marine lands, agricultural lands, residential lands, recreational lands, miscellaneous lands); historical changes in the mean high water shoreline and nearshore bathymetry; environmental and geologic hazards; economic minerals; vertebrate paleontology (sharks, rays, mammals, reptiles); and general recommendations regarding landforms, environments, groundwater, economic minerals, geologic testing, and miscellaneous issues.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Mclemore, William; Swann, Charles; Wigley, Perry; Turlington, Mary; Henry, Vernon; Nash, Gregory; Martinez, Jaime; Carver, Robert; Thurmond, John
- Date of Issue
- 1981
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- CUIS
- Keywords
- Geography, Geohydrology, Geology, Land Use, Landforms, Management, Paleontology, Shoreline Change, Stratigraphy, Vegetation