scholarly journals Preliminary stratigraphic cross sections of Atlantic Coastal Plain sediments of the southeasern United States; Cretaceous sediments along the South Carolina coastal margin

1978 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Atlantic Coastal Plain ◽  
The South ◽  
Coastal Margin ◽  
Atlantic Coastal

Three forgotten earthquakes

1963 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 687-692
Author(s):  
Gerald R. MacCarthy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Maximum Intensity ◽  
Atlantic Coastal Plain ◽  
Eastern United States ◽  
Atlantic Coastal

Abstract For a given maximum intensity, most earthquakes of the Eastern United States are felt over much wider area than their western counterparts. Several of these eastern shocks, have, because of their relatively low maximum intensities, received little or no attention in seismological literature. Three such earthquakes will be described in terms of contemporary accounts: those of March 9, 1828, April 29, 1852, and of August 31, 1861. In no case did the maximum intensity exceed about VI on the Mercalli Scale, yet each was felt over many thousands of square miles. The 1828 shock affected at least 190,000 square miles, and was reported from Pennsylvania to South Carolina. That of 1852 affected about 187,000 square miles, and was reported from New York to North Carolina. That of 1861 affected at least 280,000 square miles, and was reported from Maryland to the Georgia-Alabama border. All three were felt from the Atlantic Coastal Plain westward into Ohio.

Regional Manifestations of Late Quaternary Climate Change and Archaeological Site Burial Along the South Atlantic Coastal Plain

2018 ◽  
pp. 193-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Moore ◽  
Mark J. Brooks ◽  
I. Randolph Daniel ◽  
Andrew H. Ivester ◽  
James K. Feathers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Atlantic Coastal Plain ◽  
Luminescence Dating ◽  
The South ◽  
Ams Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Paleoclimate Records ◽  
Atlantic Coastal

Archaeological site investigations on the South Atlantic Coastal Plain have revealed stratified cultural remains in sand deposits of mixed aeolian and fluvial origins, aeolian sand sheets and dunes, alluvial terraces, and Carolina Bay rims. These sites are typically shallow but have yielded discernible archaeostratigraphy within sand dominated deposits by using luminescence dating (OSL), AMS radiocarbon dating, and close interval sediment sampling. Periods of site burial are linked to regional and global paleoclimate records, including Bond events, and provide broader reconstructions for human ecology and periods of site burial.

Comparison of Amino Acid Racemization Geochronometry with Lithostratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, Uranium-Series Coral Dating, and Magnetostratigraphy in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of the Southeastern United States

1982 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. McCartan ◽  
J. P. Owens ◽  
B. W. Blackwelder ◽  
B. J. Szabo ◽  
D. F. Belknap ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Atlantic Coastal Plain ◽  
Amino Acid Racemization ◽  
Uranium Series ◽  
Myrtle Beach ◽  
Atlantic Coastal ◽  
North And South ◽  
Integrated Study

AbstractThe results of an integrated study comprising litho- and biostratigraphic investigations, uranium-series coral dating, amino acid racemization in molluscs, and paleomagnetic measurements are compared to ascertain relative and absolute ages of Pleistocene deposits of the Atlantic Coastal Plain in North and South Carolina. Four depositional events are inferred for South Carolina and two for North Carolina by all methods. The data suggest that there are four Pleistocene units containing corals that have been dated at about 100,000 yr, 200,000 yr, 450,000 yr, and over 1,000,000 yr. Some conflicts exist between the different methods regarding the correlation of the younger of these depositional events between Charleston and Myrtle Beach. Lack of good uranium-series dates for the younger material at Myrtle Beach makes the correlation with the deposits at Charleston more difficult.

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