The Gulf of Mexico covered the gently sloped sand hills of lower Arkansas until about 50 million years ago. The Ouachita orogeny--the collision that pushed up what we know, in eroded form, as the ...

Claims persist in the literature alleging multiple pre-Sangamonian Pleistocene, mid-Wisconsinan, middle and late Holocene marine highstands on the northeast Gulf coastal plain. These views, still ...

The Geological Survey of Alabama received funding from the USGS to coordinate the East Gulf Coastal Plain Stratigraphic Reconciliation Initiative Working Group, comprised of representatives from the ...

Vol. 13, Special Issue 5: Proceedings of the 5th Big Thicket Science Conference: Changing Landscapes and Changing Climate (2014), pp. 117-130 (14 pages) Fifty-one species make up the known tardigrade ...

There are approximately 750 species of salamander known to science, a third of which reside in North America. Now, a team of researchers has discovered a new species of swamp-dwelling dusky salamander ...

An unnoticed network of channels is cutting across the coastal plain landscape along the Gulf Coast and influencing how water flows, according to new research that could help predict flooding from ...

Thanks to a coalition of Florida companies, thousands of gopher tortoises whose homes were threatened by development have found a new home at Eglin Air Force. The Gulf Coastal Plain Ecosystem ...

WASHINGTON (May 3, 2022) — There are approximately 750 species of salamander known to science, a third of which reside in North America. Now, a team of researchers led by R. Alexander Pyron, the ...