CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

The Geology of the Carolinas: CGS 50th Anniversary Volume

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In preparation for the 50th anniversary of the Society (1987), the Board of Directors decided that a book should be compiled on the geology of the Carolinas.

Wright Horton and Victor Zullo agreed to co-edit the book. Steve Conrad and Ole Olson (as State Geologists of North and South Carolina) helped raise over $10,000 from various corporations and individuals in the two states to be applied toward publication costs. In addition, the membership contributed $1,000.

After many delays, the hardback book was published in 1991 by the University of Tennessee Press. The 406-page volume contains 19 articles on just about every phase of the geology of the Carolinas (see list of articles below).

It is available for purchase for $50.00 from the North Carolina Geological Survey and is suitable for professionals or advanced amateurs.

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List of Articles in The Geology of the Carolinas: CGS 50th Anniversary Volume

1.An Introduction to the Geology of the Carolinas, by J. Wright Horton and Victor A. Zullo
2.The Blue Ridge Geologic Province, by Robert D. Hatcher, Jr. and Stephen A. Goldberg
3.The Western Piedmont, by J. Wright Horton and Keith I. McConnell
4.The Central Piedmont, by J. Robert Butler and Donald T. Secor, Jr.
5.The Eastern Piedmont in North Carolina, by Edward F. Stoddard, Stewart S. Farrar, J. Wright Horton, J. Robert Butler, and Robert M. Druhan
6.The Eastern Piedmont in South Carolina, by Harmon D. Maher, Jr., Paul E. Sacks, and Donald T. Secor, Jr.
7.Plutonic Rocks, by Harry Y. McSween, Jr., J. Alexander Speer, and Paul D. Fullagar
8.Metamorphism, by J. Robert Butler
9.Rift Basins of Early Mesozoic Age, by Paul E. Olsen, Albert J. Froelich, David L. Daniels, Joseph P. Smoot, and Pamela J. W. Gore
10. Mesozoic Igneous Rocks, by Paul C. Ragland
11. Cretaceous Stratigraphy of the Carolina Coastal Plain, by Norman F. Sohl and James P. Owens
12. Cretaceous and Tertiary Stratigraphy of the Upper Coastal Plain, South Carolina, by Paul G. Nystrom, Jr., Ralph H. Willoughby, and Lucile Kite Price
13. Stratigraphy and Structure of the Paleocene and Lower Eocene Black Mingo Group, South Carolina, by Donald J. Colquhoun and Michael G. Muthig
14. Eocene and Oligocene Stratigraphy of the Outer Coastal Plain, by W. Burleigh Harris and Victor A. Zullo
15. Sequence Stratigraphy of Miocene Deposits, North Carolina Continental Margin, by Scott W. Snyder, Stephen W. Snyder, Stanley R. Riggs, and Albert C. Hines
16. Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Stratigraphy, Depositional History, and Molluscan Paleobiogeography of the Coastal Plain, by Lauck W. Ward, Richard H. Bailey, and Joseph G.. Carter
17. Surficial Geology and Geomorphology, by David R. Soller and Hugh H. Mills
18. Evidence of Cenozoic Tectonism, by David C, Prowell and Stephen F. Obermeier
19. Mineral Resources of the Carolinas, by Geoffrey Feiss, Arthur H. Maybin III, Stanley R. Riggs, and Andrew E. Grosz

Appendix. Index to Field Guides of the Carolina Geological Society, by Lucille Kite Price

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