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Roadside Geology of Alabama by Mark Steltenpohl, Laura Steltenpohl, Chelsea Feeney

• Roadside Geology of Alabama
  

• Mark Steltenpohl, Laura Steltenpohl, Chelsea Feeney
  

• Page: 360
  

• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
  

• ISBN: 9780878427147
  

• Publisher: Mountain Press
  

Roadside Geology of Alabama

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Overview

The authors intertwine the geology with cultural stories, legends, and history to paint an enjoyable picture of how Alabama and its rocks came to be. For example, Tannehill Ironworks and iron mines in Red Mountain Park and Ruffner Mountain Nature Preserve document Birmingham's industrial birth as the source of iron for the Confederacy. Buildings at Cheaha State Park in the Talladega Mountains were constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps using blocks of locally quarried Cheaha Quartzite. Native Americans chiseled stone axes out of the Hillabee greenstone, one of Alabama's ancient volcanic rocks. With this book as your guide, find caverns in fossil-rich limestone, shark teeth in the shifting sands of the Gulf Coast, and rocky outcrops in Muscle Shoals along the banks of the Tennessee River, known to Native Americans as the "singing river."