Tracking the Golden Isles : the natural and human histories of the Georgia coast /

"With this collection of essays, Anthony J. Martin invites us to investigate animal and human traces on the Georgia coast and the remarkable stories these traces, both modern and fossil, tell us. Readers will learn how these traces enabled geologists to discover that the remains of ancient barr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Martin, Anthony J., 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2020]
Temas:
Natural history > Georgia > Atlantic Coast.
Barrier island ecology > Georgia.
Barrier islands > Georgia > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Georgia > Atlantic Coast.
Sciences naturelles > Géorgie (État) > Atlantique, Côte de l'.
Écologie des cordons littoraux > Géorgie (État)
Cordons littoraux > Géorgie (État) > Histoire.
Homme > Influence sur la nature > Géorgie (État) > Atlantique, Côte de l'.
Barrier island ecology.
Barrier islands.
Ecology.
Natural history.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Atlantic Coast (Ga.) > Environmental conditions.
Atlantique, Côte de l' (Géorgie) > Conditions environnementales.
Georgia.
Georgia > Atlantic Coast.
History.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Knobbed whelks, dwarf clams, and shorebirds
  • The lost barrier islands of Georgia
  • Georgia salt marshes, the places with the traces
  • Rooted in time
  • Coquina clams, listening to and riding the waves
  • Ghost crabs and their ghostly traces
  • Ghost shrimp whisperer
  • Why horseshoe crabs are so much cooler than mermaids
  • Moon snails and necklaces of death
  • Rising seas and étoufées
  • Burrowing wasps and baby dinosaurs
  • Erasing the tracks of a monster
  • Traces of toad toiletry
  • Why do birds' tracks suddenly appear?
  • Traces of the red queen
  • Marine moles and mistaken science
  • Tracking that is otterly delightful
  • Alien invaders of the Georgia coast
  • The wild cattle of Sapelo
  • Your Cumberland Island pony, neither friend nor magic
  • Going hog wild on the Georgia coast
  • Redbays and ambrosia beetles
  • Shell rings and tabby ruins
  • Ballast of the past
  • Riders of the storms
  • Vestiges of future coasts.

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