Beaches and Tidal Marshes of the Atlantic Coast
Author : Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
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Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Beaches
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Author : Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Beaches
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Author : Charles Seabrook
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,94 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0820343846
The World of the Salt Marsh is a wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast—its natural history, its people and their way of life, and the historic and ongoing threats to its ecological survival. Focusing on areas from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to Cape Canaveral, Florida, Charles Seabrook examines the ecological importance of the salt marsh, calling it “a biological factory without equal.” Twice-daily tides carry in a supply of nutrients that nourish vast meadows of spartina (Spartina alterniflora)—a crucial habitat for creatures ranging from tiny marine invertebrates to wading birds. The meadows provide vital nurseries for 80 percent of the seafood species, including oysters, crabs, shrimp, and a variety of finfish, and they are invaluable for storm protection, erosion prevention, and pollution filtration. Seabrook is also concerned with the plight of the people who make their living from the coast’s bounty and who carry on its unique culture. Among them are Charlie Phillips, a fishmonger whose livelihood is threatened by development in McIntosh County, Georgia, and Vera Manigault of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, a basket maker of Gullah-Geechee descent, who says that the sweetgrass needed to make her culturally significant wares is becoming scarcer. For all of the biodiversity and cultural history of the salt marshes, many still view them as vast wastelands to be drained, diked, or “improved” for development into highways and subdivisions. If people can better understand and appreciate these ecosystems, Seabrook contends, they are more likely to join the growing chorus of scientists, conservationists, fishermen, and coastal visitors and residents calling for protection of these truly amazing places.
Author : Todd Ballantine
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 15,12 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780872497955
A naturalist's guide to the beaches and marshes of the Southeast coast, portraying the nature of the sea, beach, salt marsh, plants, and animals of the area.
Author : New Jersey Geological Survey
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 32,30 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Geological surveys
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Page : 1284 pages
File Size : 31,12 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Floods
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Author : New Jersey. Geological Survey, 1863-1915
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Geology
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Publisher :
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Irrigation
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Publisher :
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 1898
Category :
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Author : New Jersey. Division of Geology and Waters
Publisher :
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 38,84 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Botany
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Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 13,52 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780607856965