Roadside Geology of Alabama
by Mark Steltenpohl and Laura Steltenpohl
Roadside Geology of Alabama
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| Preface and Acknowledgments |
viii
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| INTRODUCTION |
1
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| Geologic Time |
2
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| The Not-So-Secret Life of Rocks |
3
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| Plate Tectonics |
7
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| Faults and Folds |
10
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| Alabama Through the Ages |
13
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| Precambrian Era |
13
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| Paleozoic Era |
17
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| Mesozoic Era |
19
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| Cenozoic Era |
21
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| Energy and Mineral Resources |
24
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| Earthquakes... in Alabama? |
29
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| Landscape Provinces |
30
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| HIGHLAND RIM AND CUMBERLAND PLATEAU |
33
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| Karst Features |
41
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| I-22: Mississippi - Birmingham |
43
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| I-59: Gadsden - Georgia |
49
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| Little River Canyon National Preserve |
51
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| DeSoto State Park |
52
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| Battelle: An Ironworks Ghost Town |
54
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| I-65: Tennessee - Birmingham |
55
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| US 72: Mississippi - Huntsville |
61
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| Rockpile Park at Wilson Dam |
64
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| Monte Sano |
67
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| Natchez Trace Parkway: Tennessee - Mississippi |
68
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| US 231: Huntsville - Ashville |
71
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| US 431: Tennessee - Gadsden |
78
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| Cathedral Caverns State Park |
81
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| Noccalula Falls and Black Creek Trail |
84
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| VALLEY AND RIDGE |
87
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| Fold-and-Thrust Belt |
87
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| Transverse Zones and Mushwads |
94
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| I-20: Oxford - Birmingham |
96
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| Ruffner Mountain Nature Preserve |
100
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| I-20/I-59: Birmingham - Tuscaloosa |
101
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| Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park |
104
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| I-459 (Birmingham Bypass): McCalla - Trussville |
109
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| I-59: Birmingham - Gadsden |
112
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| I-65: Birmingham - Calera |
115
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| Oak Mountain State Park |
118
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| Red Mountain Park |
120
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| US 231: Ashville - Harpersville |
121
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| US 280: Birmingham - Sylacauga |
124
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| McWane Science Center |
127
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| Red Mountain Expressway Cut |
129
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| National Carbon Capture Center |
139
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| US 431: Gadsden - Oxford |
142
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| PIEDMONT |
149
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| A Patchwork of Terranes |
151
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| I-20: Georgia Line - Oxford |
167
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| I-65: Calera - Clanton |
167
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| Diamictite at Lay Dam |
170
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| I-85: Georgia - Auburn |
171
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| Chewacla State Park |
173
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| US 231: Sylacauga - Montgomery |
175
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| Wetumpka Impact Crater |
181
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| US 280: Sylacauga - Opelika |
184
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| US 431: I-20 near Oxford - Opelika |
195
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| US 280/US 431: Opelika - Phenix City |
206
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| AL 49: Cheaha State Park - Lineville - Dadeville |
212
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| High Falls, Pyriton, and Clairmont Springs |
215
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| Almond Trondhjemite at Flat Rock Park |
219
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| Horseshoe Bend National Military Park |
222
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| COASTAL PLAIN |
225
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| Folds and Faults |
232
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| I-20/I-59: Tuscaloosa - Mississippi |
234
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| I-65: Clanton - Mobile |
237
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| Point A Dam Fossil Locality |
243
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| Sir Charles Lyell and Claiborne Bluff |
244
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| I-85: Auburn - Montgomery |
247
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| Fossils of Late Cretaceous Flowering Plants |
249
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| US 43: Demopolis - Mobile |
250
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| Salt Mountain |
259
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| St. Stephens Historical Park |
260
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| US 80: Mississippi - Montgomery |
262
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| The End-of-Cretaceous Meteor Impact |
265
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| How to Hatch a Dinosaur Egg |
268
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| US 82: Mississippi - Montgomery |
270
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| The Hillabee Celt and Moundville Archaeological Park |
273
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| US 231: Montgomery - Florida |
275
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| Alabama's T-Rex |
277
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| US 431: Phenix City - Dothan |
282
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| Fossils of the Ingersoll Shale |
285
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| Fighting Gravity to Keep Roads Safe |
286
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| COASTAL LOWLANDS |
293
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| I-10: Mississippi - Mobile - Florida |
296
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| US 98 and Alternate US 98: Mississippi - Mobile - Florida |
297
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| Miocene Fossils Hold Clue to Evolution of Mammals |
298
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| Alternate US 98 along Eastern Shore |
300
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| AL 180 and AL 182: Fort Morgan - Florida |
303
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| CSS Ivanhoe, a Confederate Blockade Runner |
304
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| West Beach Boulevard to Lagoon Pass Park |
307
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| Gulf State Park |
308
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| AL 193: Mobile - Dauphin Island |
309
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| Flow Direction of the Fowl River |
309
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| Dauphin Island |
310
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| Mobile Bay Ferry Route |
316
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| GLOSSARY |
318
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| REFERENCES |
325
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| INDEX |
332
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