The Carolina Geological Society has published guidebooks since 1952. Most guidebooks have been printed and distributed by other organizations or individuals. Many are still available.
Guidebooks in red are available as downloadable Adobe Acrobat files. Click here to go the download page.
If you need an original, inquiries should be made to one of the following for the particular guidebook. Note that the prices listed have probably increased.
(1) North Carolina Geological Survey, Division of Land Resources, 1612 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1612, Phone: 919-733-2423, Fax: 919-733-0900
(2) South Carolina Geological Survey, No. 5 Geology Road, Columbia, SC 29210
(3) Out of Print
(4) Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, P.O. Box 3667, Charlottesville, VA 22903
(5) Carolina Geological Society, Division of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Box 90234, Duke University, Durham, NC 27705-0234
(6) Try the Author
Most guidebooks are housed in the Duke University Perkins Library. Some are listed under the call number: q 557.56 C292G (year). To search for a guidebook at Duke go to http://hawk.lib.duke.edu/web2/tramp2.exe/log_in?GUEST=GUEST&SETTING_KEY=English A title search works best.
Miscellaneous publications are also available at Perkins Library. Ask your librarian about inter-library loan.
1937-1951, No guidebooks, usually only a short road log with a brief description of localities. Some copies are available from the Society's headquarters.
1952, (3) Guide Book of Excursion in the Great Smoky Mountains by Philip B. King, Jarvis B. Hadley, and Robert B. Neuman, 60p., 5 tables, 11 figs., 2 large maps.
1953, (3) Road Log for the Annual Excursion of the Carolina Geological Society, by W.C. Overstreet, P.K. Theobald, Jr., and N.P. Cuppels, 26p., 2 figs.
1954, No Guidebook.
1955, (3) Guidebook of Excursion in the Coastal Plain of North Carolina, by H.E. LeGrand and P.M. Brown: 43p., 1 table, 4 figs.
1956, (3) Carolina Geological Society Guidebook (west of Kings Mountain, NC), by Thomas L. Kesler: 4p., 1 table, 1 map.
1957, (3) Carolina Geological Society Guidebook for the South Carolina Coastal Plain Field Trip, by George E. Siple, Bull. 24, State Dev. Board, Div. of Geology, Columbia, S.C., FG-2.
1958, (3) Carolina Geological Society Guidebook by L.N. Smith and H.S. Johnson, Jr., FG-3, 13p., 1 table, 2 maps.
1959, (1) Geology of the Albemarle and Denton Quadrangles, N.C., by A.A. Stromquist and J.F. Conley, 36p., 3 figs., Price $3.00.
1960, (1) Road Log of the Grandfather Mountain Area, North Carolina, by Bruce Bryant and John C. Reed, Jr., 21 p., 2 figs., Price $3.00.
1961, (2) Relationships between the Carolina Slate Belt and the Charlotte Belt in Newberry County, S.C., by J.F. McCauley, and Fall Line Stratigraphy Northeast of Columbia, S.C., by H.S. Johnson, Jr.: published in Geologic Notes, v. 5, no. 5, FG-4, 28p., 1 fig., Price $2.00.
1962, (1) Road Log of the Geology of Moore County, N.C,. by J.F. Conley, 6p., 1 fig., Price $3.00.
1963, (3) Guide to the Geology of Pickens and Oconee Counties, South Carolina: by C.J. Cazeau and C.Q. Brown, published in Geologic Notes, v. 7, no. 5., FG-5, 10p., 2 figs.
1964, (1) Road Log of the Chatham, Randolph and Orange County areas, North Carolina, by George L. Bain, Eldon P. Allen, and William F. Wilson and James R. Butler, 23p., 1 fig., Price $3.00.
1965, (2) Guide to the Geology of York County, South Carolina, Carolina Geological Society Field Trip, by James R. Butler: published in Geologic Notes, v. 9, no. 2, p. 27-36, FG-6, 10p, 1 fig., Price $2.00.
1966, (1) Guidebook of Excursion in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, by H.E. LeGrand and Henry Bell III, 39p., 1 table, 7 figs., Price $3.00.
1967, (1) Guide to the Geology of the Mt. Rogers Area, Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee, by Douglas Rankin, 48p., 3 figs., Price $3.00.
1968, (2) Stratigraphy, Structure, and Petrology of the Piedmont in Central South Carolina, by D.T. Secor and H.D. Wagener: published in Geologic Notes, v. 12, no. 4, FG-8, 18p., 1 table, 1 large map, Price $2.00.
1969, (2) Carolina Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook for Northwestern South Carolina, by. V.S. Griffin, and Robert D. Hatcher Jr.: published in Geologic Notes, v. 13, no. 4, p. 143-147, FG-9, 60p., 3 tables, 17 figs., 19 plates, Price $2.00.
1970, (1) Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Economic Geology of Dan River, North Carolina, by Paul A. Thayer, Dewey S. Kirstein and Roy L. Ingram, 44p., 4 tables, 12 figs.,Price $3.00.
1971, (1) Stratigraphy and Structure of the Murphy Belt, North Carolina by W. Robert Power and Joseph T. Forrest, 29p., 11 figs., 1 plate, Price $3.00.
1972, (1) The Geology of the NC Coastal Plain from the Sounds near New Bern to the Piedmont of Wake County by R.B. Daniels, E.E. Gamble, W.H. Wheeler and C.S. Holzhey, 64p., 3 tables, 21 figs., Price $3.00.
1973, (2) Granitic Plutons of the Central and Eastern Piedmont of South Carolina by H.D. Wagener and David E. Howell, FG-11, 25p., 3 figs., Price $2.50.
1974, (2) Geology of the Piedmont and Coastal Plain Near Pageland, South Carolina and Wadesboro, North Carolina by Henry Bell III, J. Robert Butler, David E. Howell, and Walter H. Wheeler, FG-12, 23p., 4 figs., Price $2.50.
1975, (3, 1) Guide to the Geology of the Blue Ridge South of the Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina by Stephen A. Kish, Carl E. Merschat, David W. Mohr and Leonard S. Wiener, 49p., 3 tables, 8 figs.
1976, (2) Introduction to the Geology of the Eastern Blue Ridge of the Carolinas and nearby Georgia by Robert D. Hatcher, Jr., FG-14, 53p., 3 tables, 14 figs., Price $3.00.
1977, (3,1) Field Guide to the Geology of the Durham Triassic Basin, by George L. Bain and Bruce W. Harvey, 83p., 24 figs.
1978, (2) Geological Investigations of the Eastern Piedmont, Southern Appalachians (with a Field Trip Guide on the Bedrock Geology of Central South Carolina), edited by Arthur W. Snoke, FG-15, 123p., 3 tables, 38 figs., 2 plates, Price $6.50.
1979, (3,1) Carolina Geological Society and Atlantic Coastal Plain Geological Association, Structural and Stratigraphic Framework for the Coastal Plain of North Carolina, edited by Gerald R. Baum, W. Burleigh Harris and Victor A. Zullo, 111p., 1 table, 31 figs., 3 plates.
1980, (3) Geological Investigations of Piedmont and Triassic Rocks, Central North Carolina and Virginia, with a field trip guide on the bedrock geology of south central Virginia, edited by V. Price, Jr., P.A. Thayer and W.A. Ranson, 180p., 14 tables, 70 figs., 1 plate.
1981, (2) Geological Investigations of the Kings Mountain Belt and Adjacent Areas in the Carolinas, edited by J. Wright Horton, Jr., J. Robert Butler and Daniel M. Milton, FG-16, 247p., 4 tables, 95 figs., 3 plates, Price $9.50.
1982, (2) Geological Investigations Related to the Stratigraphy in the Kaolin Mining District, Aiken County, S.C., edited by Paul G. Nystrom, Jr., and Ralph H. Willoughby, FG-17, 183p., 5 tables, 66 figs., 1 plate, Price $10.00.
1983, (3,1) Geologic Investigations in the Blue Ridge of Northwestern North Carolina, edited by Sharon E. Lewis, 138p., 11 tables, 81 figs., 2 plates.
1984, (3) A Stratigrapher's View of the Carolina Slate Belt Southcentral North Carolina, by Gail G. Gibson and Steven A. Teeter, 43p., 3 figs.
1985, (4) The Virgilina Deformation: Implications of Stratigraphic Correlations in the Carolina Slate Belt, by Charles W. Harris and Lynn Glover, III., 58p., 1 table, 11 figs., Price $3.00. Duke Library call number q553 .09755 V816 1985
1986, (2) Cretaceous-Tertiary Stratigraphy of the Upper Edge of the Coastal Plain between North Augusta and Lexington, South Carolina, by Paul G. Nystrom, Jr., Ralph H. Willoughby, and Lucille E. Kite, 82p., 46 figs., 1 plate, Price $7.50.
1987, (2) Anatomy of the Alleghanian Orogeny as seen from the Piedmont of South Carolina and Georgia, edited by Donald T. Secor, Jr., 97p., 29 figs., 1 plate, Price $7.50.
1988, (1) Structure of the Sauratown Mountains Window, North Carolina, edited by Robert D. Hatcher, Jr., 104p., 45 figs., 5 tables, Price $15.00.
1989, (1) Campanian and Maastrichtian Depositional Systems of the Black Creek Group of the Carolinas, James P. Owens and Norman F. Sohl, 23p., 9 figs, Price $5.00.
1990, (1) Geology of Grenville-Age Basement and Younger Cover Rocks in the West Central Blue Ridge, North Carolina, Carl E. Merschat and Leonard S. Wiener, 42p., 3 figs, 4 tables, Price $5.00.
1991, (1) Studies of Precambrian and Paleozoic Stratigraphy in the Western Blue Ridge, edited by Stephen A. Kish, 161p., 57 figs, 10 tables, 1 plate, Price $10.00
1992, (2) Geological Investigations of the Central Savannah River Area, South Carolina and Georgia, edited by Wallace Fallow and Van Price, 112p, 37 figs., 4 tables, 1 plate, Price $5.00.
1993, (1) Studies of Inner Piedmont Geology with a Focus on the Columbus Promontory, edited by Robert D. Hatcher, Jr. and Timothy L. Davis, 114p., 43 figs., 6 tables, 1 plate, Price $14.00.
1994, (1) Geology and Field Trip Guide, Western Flank of the Raleigh Metamorphic Belt, North Carolina, edited by Edward F. Stoddard and David E. Blake, 110p., 61 figs, 10 tables, Price $14.00.
1995, (2) Geology of the Western Part of the Carolina Terrane in Northwestern South Carolina, edited by Allen J. Dennis, 94p., 65 figs, 10 tables, Price $15.00. Note: The field guide is on the Web. Click here.
1996, (6) Environmental Coastal Geology: Cape Lookout to Cape Fear, NC, edited by Bill Cleary, 138 p. Price ??, Check with Author at UNC-Wilmington.
1997, (1) Paleozoic Structure, Metamorphism, and Tectonics of the Blue Ridge of Western North Carolina, edited by K.G. Stewart, Mark G. Adams, and Charles H. Trupe, 101 p., Price $15.00.
1998, (2) The Carolina Terrane in Northeastern South Carolina: History of an Exotic Volcanic Arc, edited by Don Secor, 83 p., Price $??
1999, (1) Geology of the Fall Zone along the North Carolina - Virginia State Line, edited by Paul E. Sacks, 60p., 21 figs., 2 tables, 1 plate, Price $??
2000, (6) Environmental Remediation Systems in Unconsolidated Upper Coastal Plain Sediments - Stratigraphic and Structural Considerations edited by D. E. Wyatt and M. K. Harris, 331 pages, Price $??
2001, (2) Geology of the Inner Piedmont in the Caesars Head and Table Rock State Parks Area, Northwestern South Carolina, edited by John Garihan, William Ranson and C.W. Clendenin, 88 pages, Price $??
2002, (?) Inner Piedmont Geology in the South Mountains-Blue Ridge Foothills and the southwestern Brushy Mountains, Central-western North Carolina, editors Robert D. Hatcher, Jr. and Brendan R. Bream, 145 pages, Price $??
2003 (1) Surficial Geology and Shallow Aquifer System of the Little Contentnea Creek Watershed, Neuse River Basin, North Carolina, editors Kathleen M. Farrell and Amy J. Keyworth , Price $??
2004 (6) Macroseismic effects of the 1886 Charleston Earthquake by Pradeep Talwani and Michael Katuna
2005 (1) Blue Ridge Geology Geotraverse East of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Western North Carolina, editors Robert D. Hatcher, Jr. and Arthur J. Merschat, Price $??
2006 (1) The Geology of the Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and Efland Quadrangles, Orange and Durham Counties, Carolina Terrane, North Carolina, editors Philip J. Bradley and Timothy W. Clark, Price $??
1968, (3,5) Carolina Geological Society History, 1937 - 1968 by E. Willard Berry and S. Duncan Heron, Jr., 28p., 3 tables.
1987, (5) The Carolina Geological Society 1937-1987 by Duncan Heron, 32p., 5 tables, 3 figures. Price $3.00. Click here to download an Acrobat file
1991, The Geology of the Carolinas, Edited by J. Wright Horton, Jr., and Victor A. Zullo, 406p, 148 figs, 27 tables, The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
1993, (3,5) Carolina Geological Society, Directory of Members, 25p.