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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Field Trip Guidebooks Series, Volume 371. The coastal plain of South Carolina is an excellent natural laboratory for studying the formation of terrigenous elastic depositional systems. The occurrence of these systems in a trailing-edge setting allows one to focus on the depositional processes, free of complex tectonic overprints. The scale of the region is compressed; it is only 160 km from the Fall Line to the ocean, which allows ready access to a broad range of depositional settings during a 5-day trip. Numerous nature preserves and wildlife refuges exist in the area, some containing virgin floral assemblages, which provides a rare opportunity to see the natural process unmodified by man.

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Miles O. Hayes is chairman of the Board of Research Planning Inc. (RPI) a science technology company located in Columbia, South Carolina. He has spent fifty years as a coastal geomorphologist and sedimentologist. Walter J. Sexton is the author of Modern Clastic Depositional Environments, South Carolina: Charleston to Columbia, South Carolina, July 20 - 25, 1989, Volume T371, published by Wiley.

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