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Index
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
General Introduction
Part I. Mountain Region
Introduction
Overview by Misty Buchanan
Mountain Geology by April C. Smith
1. The Rock Garden: The Fred Webb Jr. Outdoor Geology Laboratory
2. Linville Caverns: An Underground Wonderland
3. Bluff Mountain Preserve: Appalachian Wetlands
4. Grandfather Mountain: A Mountain of Biological Abundance
5. Mount Mitchell: An Ecological Island in the Sky
6. The Cradle of Forestry in America: A Legacy of Conservation Education
7. Mount Jefferson State Natural Area
8. Blowing Rock Gneiss: Interpreting the Geologic History of a Rock Outcrop
9. Elk Knob State Park
10. Linville Gorge Wilderness Area: North Carolina’s Grand Canyon
Part II. Piedmont Region
Introduction
Overview by Misty Buchanan
Piedmont Geology by April C. Smith
11. Saxapahaw on the Haw River: Investigating Aquatic Insect Adaptions
12. Reed Gold Mine and Gold Hill Mines Historic Park: Gold Mining in the Piedmont
13. Sandhills: The Making of a Forest
14. Prairie Ridge Ecostation: Prairie in the City
15. Pilot Mountain State Park: Exploring a Sauratown Mountain Monadnock
16. North Carolina Botanical Garden
17. Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve and the Stevens Nature Center
18. Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area
19. Eno River State Park: Exploring the Eno
20. Medoc Mountain State Park
Part III. Coastal Plain Region
Introduction
Overview by Misty Buchanan
Coastal Plain Geology by April C. Smith
21. Merchant’s Millpond: A Cypress Swamp
22. Mattamuskeet and Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuges: A Walk on the Wild Side
23. Lake Waccamaw: Studying Freshwater Mussels in Eastern North Carolina
24. Carolina Beach State Park and Green Swamp: The Venus Flytrap
25. Jockey’s Ridge State Park: Moving Mountains at the Beach
26. Fort Fisher and the North Carolina Aquarium
27. Bear Island, Hammocks Beach State Park: Barrier Island Ecology
28. The Lower Roanoke River: Exploring the Secrets of Bottomland Swamps
29. Pamlico Sound/Neuse River Estuary: Water Quality Monitoring
30. Cape Hatteras: Coastal Processes and Conflicts on North Carolina’s Outer Banks
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
Back Cover
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