By Pamela Gore,William Witherspoon
You’ll be surprised at Georgia’s geological range, from its moving barrier islands alongside the coast to the sandstone ridges in its northwest nook. on the Cumberland Island nationwide beach you’ll locate the ruins of Dungeness, the once-magnificent Carnegie property equipped of neighborhood mineral assets, and come upon wild horses grazing between windswept dunes. In Atlanta, the white whaleback of granite referred to as Stone Mountain will provoke you with its sticking out “cat’s paw” minerals and stony layers which are sloughing off just like the layers of an onion. within the Blue Ridge Mountains you could witness Amicalola Falls, one of many optimum cascading waterfalls east of the Mississippi River, and Tallulah Gorge, one the inner most gorges within the japanese usa. And within the iconic Okefenokee Swamp of south Georgia, you’ll struggle through the gator-filled blackwater of 1 of the biggest wetlands in North the USA.
With its attractive prose and 250-plus colour photographs, maps, and figures, Roadside Geology of Georgia takes you past the rocks to unearth the billion-year heritage of the Empire country of the South.
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