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A Beachcomber's Guide to Fossils

Author: Bob Gale

Publisher: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Boo

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780820357324

Millions of years before humans began visiting Atlantic and Gulf coast beaches, amazing creatures roamed this region. They are gone now but left behind fossil treasures you can pick up today. A Beachcomber's Guide to Fossils uses hundreds of color close-up photos and detailed descriptions to show you how to recognize these exciting finds. This field guide will help you uncover mysteries hiding among the seashells, sand, and driftwood. You'll learn to identify remnant bones and teeth from mammoths, sharks, armadillos, tortoises, and many other prehistoric giants.

A Beachcomber's Guide to Fossils in Capitola

Author: Lorena Paras

Publisher:

Published: 2016-05-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780983926474

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Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas

Author: Blair E. Witherington

Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1561644900

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"Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas" satisfies a beachcomber's curiosity within a comprehensive yet easily browsed guide covering beach processes, plants, animals, minerals, and manmade objects. Full-color photos. Maps.

Seashells of Georgia and the Carolinas

Author: Blair Witherington

Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 1561644978

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With simple organization, this guide tells the individual stories of 213 shelled mollusks using descriptive accounts, distribution maps, and color photographs. Accounts feature glimpses of each seashell's former life as a living creature. The organization and descriptions as well as the photographs make shell identification easy.

Florida's Fossils

Author: Robin C. Brown

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2014-10-01

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1561647551

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For 50 million years Florida was home to hordes of strange and wonderful animals. Their remains accumulated in rivers, springs, and oceans. Today fossilized bones and teeth wash up along streams, banks, and beaches and lie in limerock quarries. This guide teaches how and where to hunt fossils—with maps, means of identification, and the history of these fossil treasures. Complete, accurate, and fully illustrated, including an outstanding identification section.

Florida's Seashells

Author: Blair E. Witherington

Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781561643875

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"Descriptive accounts, distribution maps, and 265 color photographs describe 252 species of mollusk shells as beachcombers are likely to find them"--P. [4] of cover.

West Coast Fossils

Author: Rolf Ludvigsen

Publisher: Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub.

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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A guide to the ancient life of Vancouver Island.

Guide to Seashells of the World

Author: Arthur Peter Hoblyn Oliver

Publisher: Firefly Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781552979433

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Guide to over 1,200 species of seashells from all around the world.

Florida's Living Beaches

Author: Blair Witherington

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2017-05-01

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1561649880

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The first edition of Florida's Living Beaches (2007) was widely praised. Now, the second edition of this supremely comprehensive guide has even more to satisfy the curious beachcomber, including expanded content and additional accounts with more than 1800 full-color photographs, maps, and illustrations. It heralds the living things and metaphorical life along the state's 700 miles of sandy beaches. The expanded second edition now identifies and explains over 1400 curiosities, with lavishly illustrated accounts organized into Beach Features, Beach Animals, Beach Plants, Beach Minerals, and Hand of Man.

The Beachcomber's Guide to Seashore Life of California

Author: J. Duane Sept

Publisher: Harbour Publishing Company

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781550174960

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The California coast is one of the world's richest, most diverse habitats for intertidal marine life. It is also the site of one the world's greatest population concentrations and tourist destinations. Until now, the many millions of people living on and visiting California's coastline have gone without a guide to aid in exploring the abundant seashore life right under their noses. The revised edition of The Beachcomber's Guide to Seashore Life of California changes everything. In a book that is as visually stunning as it is informative, Duane Sept dedicates full-colour photographs and thorough descriptions to each of the most common plants and animals to be found along the saltwater shores of California. Each entry includes the most useful common names for the species along with the scientific or Latin name; a description of its distinguishing physical features or behaviour; and information on its size, habitat and range. There are also sections on understanding tides and intertidal habitats, lists of the best beachcombing sites in California and tips on how to observe seashore life in an ecologically friendly manner. Scientifically accurate, yet simple and straightforward in approach, The revised edition of The Beachcomber's Guide to Seashore Life of California is the perfect companion for every interested observer - the family or the school group, the Sunday beach-walker or the career naturalist.