GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY

Periglacial Features of Southern New Jersey

Field Guide and Proceedings, XX Annual Meeting (2003)

Michael J. Hozik and Mark J. Mihalasky (eds.)



TABLE OF CONTENTS
7
Introduction
Michael J. Hozik

Technical Papers and Abstracts
9
Permafrost - Past and Present
Hugh M. French
21
Late Miocene to Holocene geology of the New Jersey Coastal Plain
Scott D. Stanford
51
A geography of spungs and some attendant hydrological phenomena on the New Jersey Outer Coastal Plain
Mark N. Demitroff
79
Is the Pine Barrens water table declining? What does the record show?
Claude M. Epstein
93
Periglacial sediment-filled wedges, northern Delaware, USA
Mary D. Lemcke & Frederick E. Nelson
101
Paleoclimatic implications of blockfield distribution in the central Appalachians
Kim Gregg, Michael T. Walegur & Frederick E. Nelson
107
Spung map: Great Egg Harbor River Watershed region, souther New Jersey
Mark J. Mihalasky & Tonya S. Del Sontro
111
Vernal pools in New Jersey's Outer Coastal Plain
Jason Tesauro & Brian Zarate
113
New Jersey - under the ice
Richard L. Kroll
115
Software developed for near-real-time internet seismic signals
Joseph J. Gerencher & Michael J. Sands

Field Guide
Hugh M. French & Mark M. Demitroff
117
Late Pleistocene periglacial phenomena in the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey: GANJ Field Excursion Guide, October 11, 2003
119 Road Log

121
Background geology and geomorphology

124
Stop 1: Vincentown - Wolfe's Spung "thermokarst basins"

127
Stop 2: Paws Farm Nature Center, MT - 'Time Travellers' and evidence for Pleistocene wind action

130
Stop 3: Pakim Pond, Lebanon State Forest - 'The Pine Barrens'

131
Stop 4:  Dorchester Pit near Port Elizabeth - ancient sand wedges: evidence for Late Pleistocene permafrost

138
Stop 5: A pit near Newtonville - cryoturbations: evidence for Late Pleistocene thermokarst

143
A glossary of permafrost, periglcaial, Pleistocene and New Jersey Pinelands terms


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