The first comprehensive treatment of the state's fascinating
geological history. The Geology of Mississippi is an encyclopedic
work by authors with extensive experience in Mississippi's surface
geology mapping program. It brings together published work,
unpublished work from agency files, and the authors' experience,
both in personal field work and in collaboration with experts from
around the word. With over a thousand images, the voluminous text
relates ways in which Mississippi's geology has contributed to the
understanding of global events, such as the extinction of the
dinosaurs and the first occurrence of tiny primates. Fossil
illustrations include Devonian trilobites, Mississippian scale
trees, Pennsylvanian brachiopods, Cretaceous dinosaur bones,
Paleocene lignite and petrified wood, Eocene seashells and the
excavation of fossil whales, Oligocene marine fossils and rare land
mammal finds, Miocene plants and animals, Paleozoic marine fossils,
and the bones of giant ice-age mammals. The text is arranged by
geologic age. Economic minerals cited in the book include oil and
gas (both methane and carbon dioxide), lignite, dimension stone,
crushed stone, sand and gravel, various clay deposits, limestone,
and potential economic deposits of bauxite, heavy minerals, and
iron ore. Groundwater is Mississippi's most valuable natural
resource and supplies over 90 percent of the state's public and
industrial water supply and most of the state's irrigation supply
for agriculture and catfish ponds. Mississippi's surface geology
causes the state's fertile and not-so-fertile soil types
responsible for foundation and infrastructure substrates that range
from stable to failure-prone due to expansive clays. Finally, The
Geology of Mississippi, coupled with site-specific surface geologic
maps, provides information for the wise use of land and the
environmental protection of the state's resources.
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