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FLOOD AND SEDIMENT INTERPRETATION AT THE HISTORIC SCULL SHOALS MILL
Abstract
Interpretation of the written historic record was combined with observation of alluvial land forms to construct the history of sedimentation at a historic mill site, and to inform possibilities for flood pro-tection. The results correctly predicted additional, pre-viously hidden remains and demonstrate the crucial role of sedimentation in the village's economic history.
As previously noted, the first edition of this book did not contain any discussion of theory nor for that matter practice in geoarchaeology. In many regards, the present chapter reprises much of that banished discussion, hence the seemingly heavy reliance on articles that date from that earlier time period. Those discussions are still germane and have been largely retained from those preceding edits as well as updated. Henry Frankel (2012) in his four-volume treatise on the controversy of continental drift and the rise of plate tectonics theory makes it clear that plate tectonics theory is just that—a theory. There is no agreed upon explanation for the origin nor the mechanism for movement of the Earth’s continental plates. Plates move; that is proven, but that is the mechanism, not the reason nor the explanation. That said, continental drift-plate tectonics theory is the greatest theoretical accomplishment of the twentieth century by earth science. Before that time, geology made, perhaps, two salient contributions to the general knowledge of the Earth system. The first was the principle of uniformitarianism, as proposed by James Hutton, and established in geology by Lyell, as more than just a “method” for describing the Earth. Likewise, geology’s recognition of the antiquity of the Earth expanded our understanding of the natural world. Arthur Holmes published The Age of the Earth: An Introduction to Geological Ideas (Holmes 1913/1927) in which he presented a range of 1.6–3.0 billion years.
Contents
Chapter I. Introduction
Chapter II. The Limited Extent of Erosion on the Piedmont at the Time of European Settlement
Chapter III. The Settlement of the Piedmont by Europeans and Associated Increasing Erosive Land Use, 1700–1860
Chapter IV. The Period of Greatest Erosive Land Use, 1860–1920
Chapter V. The Decrease of Erosive Land use from 1920 to the Present
Chapter VI. Summary, Conclusions, and Prospects
Appendix A. Discussion of Erosive Land Use Data by Years
Appendix B. Changes in Soil Conservation Techniques, 1700–1967
Appendix C. The Importance of Abandoned Land to Erosive Land Use
Appendix D. The Relation of Slavery and Plantation Agriculture to Erosive Land Use
Appendix E. The Relation of Tenancy to Erosive Land Use
Appendix F. Determination of CountyAreas, 1840–1920
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