Coast watch (1979) (20665915651)

Top: Outer Banks horses, Others: Fossils and fossil hunting in North Carolina
Title: Coast watch
Identifier: coastwatch00uncs_7 (find matches)
Year: 1979 (1970s)
Authors: UNC Sea Grant College Program
Subjects: Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology
Publisher: (Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program)
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina
Digitizing Sponsor: North Carolina Digital Heritage Center



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N.C. DOCUMENTS CLEARINGHOUSE contents JUN 23 1994 N.C. STATE LIBRARY Features raleigh A Haven for Horses: Horse Lore Steers Debate Over Outer Banks Herds Depending on whom you ask, the feral horses on the Outer Banks are a historic link to 14th-century Spanish explorers or recent arrivals from the early 20th century. Theories of their origins abound, but free-lance writer Sarah Friday Peters discovers one certainty. People love the footloose horses that roam a 175-mile stretch of barrier islands from the Virginia line to Carrot Island. Peters explores their past and their uncertain future as development and other coastal activities close in on the horses' once spacious sanctuaries 2 Uncovering History: Fossils are Keys to the Past From fossils we can reconstruct a picture of what life was like millions of years ago — how plants and animals looked, what was predator and what was prey. Free-lance writer Natalie Eason Hampton explores fossil remains on the Coastal Plain of North Carolina and explains how to collect fossil plants, seashells, bones and teeth ranging from a few thousand to 80 million years old. Sometimes these fossil finds are remains of marine creatures — sharks, whales, seals, fish and shellfish — representative of times when the ocean covered the Coastal Plain. Other fossils are bones and teeth of land-based animals — dinosaurs, sloths, mastodons, mammoths and horses — indicative of periods when sea level was lower 10 On a Fossil Hunt The fossilized bones of dinosaurs that tower in museum showrooms inspire awe in children and adults alike. But museums aren't the only safekeepers of fossils —just check the soil under your feet in North Carolina's Coastal Plain. There, you can find the fossilized remains of plants and animals that shared our state shores with dinosaurs, and even some that lived before these giants. Free-lance writer Natalie Eason Hampton explores the best fossil-finding sites in coastal North Carolina 18 Departments From Sound to Sea: Cooking up an Estuary 21 Field Notes: The Chemistry of Soft-Shell Crabs 22 Marine Advice: North Carolina Examines its Coastal Management Tools.. 23 Aft Deck 24 COASTWATCH 1