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Open-File Report 01-415

Prepared in Cooperation with the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory,
The University of Southern Mississippi Institute of Marine Sciences

Stratigraphic and Paleontologic Studies of the Neogene and Quaternary Sediments in Southern Jackson County, Mississippi

Gregory S. Gohn, Editor

CONTENTS

Chapter A (PDF | text):

Stratigraphy of Subsurface Neogene and Quaternary Sediments in Southern Jackson County, Mississippi

By Gregory S. Gohn and Juergen Reinhardt

Chapter B (PDF | text):

Physical Stratigraphy, Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy, and Depositional History of the Quaternary Sediments in the USGS-Belle Fontaine No. 1 Core, Jackson County, Mississippi

By Gregory S. Gohn, Juergen Reinhardt, Laurel M. Bybell, Meyer Rubin, and John A. Garrison, Jr.

Chapter C (HTML):

Palynomorph Biostratigraphy and Paleoecology of Subsurface Upper Neogene and Quaternary Sediments in Southern Jackson County, Mississippi

By Debra A. Willard and Lucy E. Edwards

Chapter D (HTML):

Dinoflagellate Cysts and Pollen from Sediment Samples, Mississippi Sound and Gulf of Mexico

By Lucy E. Edwards and Debra A. Willard

Chapter E (HTML):

Pleistocene Molluscan Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironment of the USGS-Belle Fontaine No. 1 Core, Southern Jackson County, Mississippi

By G. Lynn Brewster-Wingard

Chapter F (HTML):

Paleoenvironments Inferred from Pleistocene Ostracode Assemblages in the USGS-Belle Fontaine No. 1 Core, Southern Jackson County, Mississippi

By Thomas M. Cronin

Chapter G (HTML):

A Pilot Study of Paleoecophenotypic Variation Among Quaternary Paralic Foraminifera in the USGS-Belle Fontaine No. 1 Core, Mississippi Gulf Coast

By C. Wylie Poag

Chapter H (PDF | text):

Mississippi Coast: Stratigraphy and Quaternary Evolution in the Northern Gulf Coastal Plain Framework

By Ervin G. Otvos


Authors

G. Lynn Brewster-Wingard, U.S. Geological Survey, 926A National Center, Reston, VA 20192

Laurel M. Bybell, Scientist Emeritus, U.S. Geological Survey, 926A National Center, Reston, VA 20192

Thomas M. Cronin, U.S. Geological Survey, 926A National Center, Reston, VA 20192

Lucy E. Edwards, U.S. Geological Survey, 926A National Center, Reston, VA 20192

John A. Garrison, Jr., formerly U.S. Geological Survey, 926A National Center, Reston, VA 20192

Gregory S. Gohn, Scientist Emeritus, U.S. Geological Survey, 926A National Center, Reston, VA 20192

Ervin G. Otvos, University of Southern Mississippi Institute of Marine Sciences, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, 703 East Beach Drive, P.O. Box 7000, Ocean Springs, MS 39566-7000

C. Wylie Poag, Scientist Emeritus, U.S. Geological Survey, 384 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598

Juergen Reinhardt (deceased), formerly U.S. Geological Survey

Meyer Rubin, Scientist Emeritus, U.S. Geological Survey, 926A National Center, Reston, VA 20192

Debra A.Willard, U.S. Geological Survey, 926A National Center, Reston, VA 20192

Published 2001
First posted October 2010

  • This report comprises chapters A-H. Chapters A, B, and H are in PDF format with full-text equivalents. All other chapters are in HTML.

For additional information contact:
Gregory S. Gohn, Scientist Emeritus
U.S. Geological Survey
12201 Sunrise Valley Dr.
MS 926A
Reston, VA 20192-0002

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Suggested citation:

Gohn, G.S., ed., 2001, Stratigraphic and paleontologic studies of the Neogene and Quaternary sediments in southern Jackson County, Mississippi: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-415, available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/of01-415/.




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