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

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