March 11), and was now about to embark onto our third and fourth barrier islands of the Georgia coast. These islands were a Pleistocene-Holocene pair – St. Simons and Little St. Simons, respectively – and the latter was our primary goal. After all, Little St. Simons...
This map aims to represent a reliable tool to understand the geological evolution of the region and for management of the territory. The geology of Macao is dominated by two groups of Jurassic granitic rocks belonging to an intrusive suite located along the coast of Southeast China: Macao Group...
The Island of Ceylon is composed almost entirely of crystalline rocks of Archean or pre-Cambrian age. In the extreme north these are overlain by limestones of Miocene or later age. At one point on the northwest coast a very small area of Jurassic rocks lies on the surface of the coastal...
Geology and total petroleum systems of the Gulf of Guinea Province of West Africa The Gulf of Guinea Province as defined by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) consists of the coastal and offshore areas of Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Benin, and the western part of the coast of Niger...
Earth system science, by taking a holistic view of the Earth, has had a beneficial effect on the development of interdisciplinary scientific research. Concomitant with this, however, has been a decline in the training of geologists who can identify rocks, minerals, and fossils, and map their ...
Figure 5. Magnetic anomaly map showing a broad blank magnetic zone offshore British Columbia (modified from Currie et al., 1983). The southern and eastern edges of the Tofino Basin are not sharply defined; to the south lie other offshore continental- margin basins along the U.S. co...
"Satellite" in the Gulf of Georgia. The references in the sketch-section annexed are to the map of the S.E. portion of Vancouver Island by J. D. Pemberton, published by Arrowsmith. The beds are described in stratigraphical order, commencing with the lowest. 1. Metamorphic and Igneous ...
This was during a time when the west coast of the North American continent was a passive margin, wet and warm and situated near the equator in the middle of present day Atlantic Ocean. Over geological time, the passive margin turned into an active margin with subduction and a volcanic ...
A huge strike-slip duplex is well developed in the western part of the Patos Shear Zone, also showing up nicely on the magnetic map: Magnetic map, strike-slip duplex, Patos Shear Zone. Geological Survey of Brazil. The strike-slip duplex (Corsini et al. JSG 1996) ...
Geology of Alderley Edge Alderley Edge Stormy Point Elevation 183 m (600 ft) Location Cheshire, England Topo map OS Landranger 118 OS grid