Beach Fronts

[bobpbx]

I purchased a book about Pine barren woody plants and received it a couple weeks ago. Michael Geller, a Stockton Professor is the author. In the front he describes why the barrens are barren, and its the best explanation I have ever seen, and I have seen most. Here is a quote I particularly like:

"As the ocean invaded and retreated from the area....the shifting currents also formed bars and barrier islands. Some of the roads of the Pine Barrens transect these beach fronts, and you can almost imagine traveling up from the bottom of a bay to the top of a barrier island as you cross the gently rolling landscape of Southern New Jersey".

Pretty cool.........

 

[Ben Ruset]

For the most part, though, the bay between the barrier island and the mainland must have been fairly shallow.

I wonder if it's possible to tell exactly where the line of demarcation is?

 

[BEHR655]

I've always figured SJ was sea bottom at one time. Never thought of the hills as barrier islands though.

Steve

 

[BEHR655]

For the most part, though, the bay between the barrier island and the mainland must have been fairly shallow.

I wonder if it's possible to tell exactly where the line of demarcation is?

The bay is very shallow in most parts.

Steve

 

[Ben Ruset]

I wonder how far you need to dig before you start running into shells? Would be pretty cool to find a horseshoe crab shell in the Pines.

 

[BEHR655]

You can find fossilized shells on the surface of FRM.

 

[Teegate]

The shells are all on the surface. I believe you can determine that easily by visiting a sand company. Once you break though the top layers the stones and fossils are gone.

This photo BTW, may be a one of a kind photo of a test hole in the FRM that the sand company dug there in the 70's. It was not there the week before, and soon after was gone. I was seriously concerned the actual Forked River Mountains were about to go. This day it was our lunch spot.

Guy

 

[bobpbx]

For the most part, though, the bay between the barrier island and the mainland must have been fairly shallow.

I wonder if it's possible to tell exactly where the line of demarcation is?

Because it happened over and over again in a long, long time period, millions of years, I'd say most lines were wiped out by the succeeding wave shore.

 

[woodjin]

Hey, I took one of M. Gellers classes when I was a student at Stockton. I thought it was Zimmerman, Bob, but it was Geller. I remember hiking around Lake Fred with him and him telling me about being able to see a cluster of chiggers! That was shortly before I became personally aquinted with them.

Jeff

 

[Ariadne]

I have found sharks' teeth in the pines.

 

[woodjin]

I used to find tons of sharks teeth when I was a ranger at Holmdel park. There was one stream that had a huge deposit. I ought to go back there. Ariadne, did you find one or two or a significant deposit? It was near a stream I presume?

Jeff

 

[Ariadne]

I used to find tons of sharks teeth when I was a ranger at Holmdel park. There was one stream that had a huge deposit. I ought to go back there. Ariadne, did you find one or two or a significant deposit? It was near a stream I presume?

Jeff

I have found them more than once. Twice I found isolated teeth, and once a large deposit near a stream. The isolated finds were by a pingo.