Alabama A&M AL
The Alabama transect site is located in Lake Guntersville State Park, near Lake Guntersville, AL, approximately 50 minutes from the Alabama A&M University campus. The site is on the Monsanto Tract of the park, which has not been developed for recreational purposes. The shale here is called the Red Rock Formation but is equivalent to the Rose Hill Shale in other parts of the transect. At an elevation of 758 ft., the site has thick forest cover and is adjacent to Lake Guntersville. Winters are very mild and summers are very hot and humid. Mean annual precipitation is 137 cm and mean annual temperature is 15.6 °C. The site is located at 34.42292 latitude and -86.20667 longitude.
15.6 °C Temp
1370 mm Precip
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Site photo with Tim White (Penn State), Feron Washington (undergraduate Alabama A & M) and site PI Mezemir Wagaw (Alabama A & M)
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The Alabama transect site is located in Lake Guntersville State Park, near Lake Guntersville, AL, approximately 50 minutes from the Alabama A&M University campus. The site is on the Monsanto Tract of the park, which has not been developed for recreational purposes. The shale here is called the Red Rock Formation but is equivalent to the Rose Hill Shale in other parts of the transect. At an elevation of 758 ft., the site has thick forest cover and is adjacent to Lake Guntersville. Winters are very mild and summers are very hot and humid. Mean annual precipitation is 137 cm and mean annual temperature is 15.6 °C.
Representative bedrock from the field site location.
Soil pit completed during 2011 REU summer field school.
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Shale Transect Site - Alabama
Mezemir Wagaw (AL A&M) and Doug Dere at the weather station located in Lake Guntersville State Park near Guntersville, AL.
Tim White (Penn State) points to an outcrop of shale equivalent to the Rose Hill Shale called the Red Rock Formation in AL.
Soil pit
Ricardo Ruiz-Velez (Univ. PR-Mayaguez) and Ashlee Dere (Penn State) work to drive the soil auger deeper into the bottom of a soil pit at the AL transect site.
Eric Heider (Univ. of Tennessee) and Ricardo Ruiz-Velez (Univ. PR-Mayaguez) excavate a soil pit at Lake Guntersville State Park.
Katie Downey (Juniata College) measurs the dimensions of a tree throw pit at Lake Guntersville State Park in AL.
Doug Dere measures a section of a shale outcrop at the Scottsboro Solid Waste Authority in Scottsboro, AL.
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