Geology 270j
Carbonate Systems and Coral Reefs of the Bahamas
January 12-23, Interterm 2012
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COVER PHOTO: View of Grotto Bay, southwest coast of San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Rocks of the upper Pleistocene Grotto Beach Formation crop out along this coast. Students conduct a field exercise here to characterize the different units of this formation and interpret their depositional history, as part of the Smith College course on carbonate systems and coral reefs of the Bahamas. Photo credit: Deedie Steele, Northampton, Massachusetts.

View of Graham's Harbour, northern coast of San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Eolian dunes of the Holocene North Point Member, Rice Bay Formation, that crop out along this coast are presently being eroded by wind and wavess.
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