Mineral resources of the Wambaw Swamp Wilderness Study Area, Charleston County, South Carolina

Cameron, Cornelia Clermont; Force, Eric R.; Gazdik, Gertrude C.; Rodehamel, Edward Charles

doi:10.3133/ofr79229

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“…The highest natural values are over old alluvial deposits. Table 6 shows the radioactivity responses of some lithologic units, which are based on unpublished mapping by L. M. Force (1979). The results from ground measurement and aeroradioactivity agree.…”

Section: Background Radioactivity Response Of Some Lithologic Unitsmentioning

confidence: 62%

Aeroradioactivity maps in heavy-mineral exploration: Charleston, South Carolina, area

Force¹,

Grosz²,

Loferski³

et al. 1982

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Context of this study _ Purpose _________ Past work ________ Exploration for heavy minerals by means of aeroradioactivity _______________________________________ Choice of study area ______________________________ Geology of study area _____________________________ Mechanics of this study _______________________________ Aeroradioactivity-map characteristics ________________ Field methods ___________________________________ Laboratory methods ______________________________ Background radioactivity response of some lithologic units _ Anomaly classification ________________________________

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Section: Background Radioactivity Response Of Some Lithologic Unitsmentioning

confidence: 62%

Aeroradioactivity maps in heavy-mineral exploration: Charleston, South Carolina, area

Force¹,

Grosz²,

Loferski³

et al. 1982

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“…A few sanples have also been• ashed in our laborato:r:y. Initial ash determinations range from 11 to 35% {Table XV) • A. U.S. Geological Survey report by c. carreron and E Force (1979). suggests• that the peat rriay not often exceed 4 feet in this area.…”

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Peat resource estimation in South Carolina. Final report, Year 2

Holmes¹,

Andrejko²,

Corvinus³

et al. 1982

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“…Additionally, any low-elevation urban or urbanizing coast is going to have enormous eventual demands for fill or raised-pad material under the conditions of a rising sea level. Geological resources definitely include abundant limestone, sands, and some deposits of histosols, soils with more than half of the upper 80 cm of the profile with organic matter, including muck (sapric soil) and peat (fibric soil) [72], and perhaps some geologically young marine shell deposits [73]. We postulate that sand, limestone, shell, and organic-rich soils will be common earth materials targeted for extraction across the southeastern coastal plain of the U.S. With respect to the extraction of muck and peat from wetland systems, if marketed as a renewable resource, management staff should be aware that such deposits required a few millennia to accrete, whereas true renewable materials can be restored on time scales of a growing season, up to a few decades.…”

Section: Geologic Materials Extractionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coastal Forests and Groundwater: Using Case Studies to Understand the Effects of Drivers and Stressors for Resource Management

2017

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Abstract:Forests are receiving more attention for the ecosystem goods and services they provide and the potential change agents that may affect forest health and productivity. Highlighting case examples from coastal forests in South Carolina, USA, we describe groundwater processes with respect to stressors and potential responses of a wetland-rich forested landscape, the roles that this area has served, and the need for water resource data to inform forest management decisions. Forested lands in the southeastern U.S. coastal plain provide a rich set of goods and services for the region, and in one case, the Francis Marion National Forest acts as a buffer to urbanization from the surrounding Charleston metropolitan area. Information from two decades of studies in the forested watersheds there may inform scientists and managers in other coastal forested systems. The common hydrological theme in this region, which has a higher average annual rainfall (1370 mm) than the annual potential evapotranspiration (PET = 1135 mm), is a shallow (<3 m) water table condition that supports a large range of natural wetlands and also creates management challenges across the region. Modest changes in the position of the water table can lead to either groundwater flooding and concomitant management challenges for forest services, or ecosystem stresses related to dry conditions in wetlands during times of below-normal precipitation or due to groundwater withdrawal. Development pressures have also stressed forest resources through the extraction of materials such as timber and sand mining, and the conversion to housing construction materials. These areas are also targeted for land development, to meet housing demands. In this paper, we discuss the role of groundwater in coastal forests and highlight opportunities for collaborative studies to better inform forest resource management.

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Mineral resources of the Wambaw Swamp Wilderness Study Area, Charleston County, South Carolina

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

Aeroradioactivity maps in heavy-mineral exploration: Charleston, South Carolina, area

Aeroradioactivity maps in heavy-mineral exploration: Charleston, South Carolina, area

Peat resource estimation in South Carolina. Final report, Year 2

Coastal Forests and Groundwater: Using Case Studies to Understand the Effects of Drivers and Stressors for Resource Management

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