Carolina Bays

[‚kar·ə′lī·nə ′bāz]

(geography)

Shallow, marshy, often ovate depressions on the coastal plain of the mideastern and southeastern United States of unknown origin.

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Tenders are invited for Project Development Study and Preparation of Federal EIS for Proposed Carolina Bays Parkway (SC 31) Extension

Proposed work involves conducting a project development study and preparing a federal environmental impact statement

is a semipermanent fishless freshwater wetland typical of Carolina bays (Sharitz, 2003).

Commercial value of amphibians produced from an isolated wetland

A host of unusual geological features, collectively known as Carolina Bays, hints at the cataclysm's location, says team member George A.

Ice age ends smashingly: did a comet blow up over eastern Canada?

During her career with GZA Kwiatkowski has worked on the Second Avenue Subway Project in New York City, Carolina Bays Parkway in South Carolina, the Central Artery in Boston, MA, CambridgeSide Galleria in Cambridge, MA, and the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston, MA.

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Historical impacts to the Carolina bays were primarily associated with agricultural activities.

Do erosion control and snakes mesh?

Carolina bays are shallow, freshwater swamps, ranging from 1 to more than 1,000 acres in size.

Mysterious Wetlands Where Wildlife Thrives

The swamps, canebrakes, Carolina bays and pine plantations of the southeast are inhospitable to man, but they're home to some of the nation's densest deer herds.

Doggin' Deer in Dixie

This study was performed to see how pH varied across the surface and by depth in one of the many Carolina Bays on the Savannah River Site.

Evaluation of Surface and Pore Water pH at Peat Bay, Savannah River Site

In addition to providing forage and water for upland wildlife, Carolina bays are particularly important sites for amphibian reproduction and larval development (Patterson, 1978; Sharitz and Gibbons, 1982; Pechmann et al.

Terrestrial Activity, Abundance and Species Richness of Amphibians in Managed Forests in South Carolina

Many of the fields in the southeast coastal plain contain depression areas called Carolina Bays.

Spatial analysis of biomass and N accumulation of a winter wheat cover crop grown after a drought-stressed corn crop in the SE coastal plain

In comparison to most Carolina bays (which usually dry each summer), Ellenton Bay is relatively permanent, having dried completely only once and partially only three times between 1955 and 1984 (Gibbons and Semlitsch, 1991).

Reproductive cycles and temporal variation in fecundity in the black swamp snake, Seminatrix pygaea