An Upper Cretaceous paleodrainage system on the Coastal Plain unconformity of Alabama-Georgia
*Emails: barineau_clinton@columbusstate.edu; dianalo@ku.edu.
*Emails: barineau_clinton@columbusstate.edu; dianalo@ku.edu.
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Published:September 24, 2021
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Clinton Barineau*, Diana Ortega-Ariza*, 2021. "An Upper Cretaceous paleodrainage system on the Coastal Plain unconformity of Alabama-Georgia", Field Excursions from the 2021 GSA Section Meetings, Joan Florsheim, Christian Koeberl, Matthew P. McKay, Nancy Riggs
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Rocks of the Upper Cretaceous Tuscaloosa Formation (Cenomanian) and Eutaw Formation (Santonian) in southwestern Georgia and southeastern Alabama record an interval of fluvial and nearshore marine deposition. In the vicinity of Columbus, Georgia, basal units of the Tuscaloosa Formation consist of a residual paleosol built on crystalline rocks of the Appalachian Piedmont covered by conglomeratic sandstones deposited in braided stream systems flowing across the mid-Cenomanian Coastal Plain unconformity. The unconformity, which separates Cretaceous detrital rocks from underlying metamorphic rocks and residual paleosols built on those metamorphic rocks, lies primarily within the Tuscaloosa Formation in this region and is marked...
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Field Excursions from the 2021 GSA Section Meetings

The 2021 GSA Northeastern, Southeastern, joint North-Central/South-Central, and Cordilleran Section Meet-ings were held virtually in spring 2021 during continued restrictions on travel and large gatherings due to COVID-19. Eleven groups put together field guides, taking participants on treks to states from Connecticut to Nevada in the United States, to Mexico, and to Italy, and covering topics as varied as bedrock geologic map-ping, geochemistry, paleodrainage, barrier islands, karst, spring systems, a southern Appalachian transect, Ordo-vician and Mississippian stratigraphy, high-energy events, Cretaceous arc granites and dextral shear zones, and Mesoproterozoic igneous rocks. This volume serves as a valuable resource for those wishing to discover, learn more about, and travel through these geologically fascinating areas.