how has the history of the waccamaw river been affected by the development over time?
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some good sites:\nhttp://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/northcarolina/preserves/art10818.html\nhttp://www.winyahrivers.org/bithistory.htm\nhttp://www.horrycountymuseum.org/ex_waccamaw.asp\n\n\n\nexcerpt:\nProbably no other individual feature of Horry County has been as important to the history and development of the area as the Waccamaw River. In 1734 Kingston Township was first surveyed with the town of Kingston (later to become Conway) as its center. The importance of Kingston was its access to the Waccamaw River and through Winyah Bay to the shipping lanes of the Atlantic. Rafting logs on the Waccamaw River required stamina and skill to snake the long rafts of freshly cut cypress and native pines to the great saw mills on the river. Rafters would live on the rafts, building shelters during cold weather and even cooking their meals on the floating logs.
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The history of the Catskill Mountains is a geologic story come full circle, from erosion, deposition and uplift back to erosion. The Catskill Mountains are more of a dissected plateau than a series of mountain ranges. The sediments that make up the rocks in the Catskills were deposited when the ancient Acadian Mountains in the east were rising and subsequently eroding. The sediments traveled westward and formed a great delta into the sea that was in the area at that time.\n\nThe eastern escarpment of the Catskills is near the former edge of this delta, as the sediments deposited in the northeastern areas along the escarpment were deposited above sea level by moving rivers and the Acadian Mountains were located roughly where the Taconics are located today (though significantly larger). The further east you travel, the finer the sediment that was deposited and the thus the rocks change from gravel conglomerates to sandstones and shales. Even further east, these fresh water deposits intermingle with shallow marine sandstones and shales until the end in deeper water limestones.\n\nThe uplift and erosion of the Acadian Mountains was occurring during the Devonian and early Mississippian period (395 to 325 million years ago). Over that time, thousands of feet of these sediments built up, slowly moving the Devonian seashore further and further west.\n\nBy the middle of the Mississippian period, the uplift stopped and the Acadian Mountains had been eroded so much that sediments no longer flowed across the Catskill Delta.\n\nOver time the sediments were buried by more sediments from other areas until the original Devonian and Mississippian sediments were deeply buried and slowly became solid rock. Then the entire area experienced uplift, which caused the sedimentary rocks to begin to erode. Today, those upper sedimentary rocks have been completed removed, allowing the Devonian and Mississippian rocks to be exposed. Today’s Catskills are a result of the continued erosion of these rocks, both by streams and in the recent past by glaciers.\n\nIn successive Ice Ages, both valley and continental glaciers have widened the valleys and the notches of the Catskills and rounded the mountains. Grooves and scratches in exposed bedrock provides evidence of the great sheets of ice that once traversed through the region. Even today the erosion of the mountains continue, with the region’s rivers and streams deepening and widening the mountains’ valleys and cloves.
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As far as I know, they all still exist, although some of the land may have been washed away.  The area near Plaquemines parish, Jefferson Parish, and Orleans parish were hard hit by Katrina.  Now they are just a little "Poorish".
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Eons ago there were rivers\n\nTh
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hydropower comes from water, typically through a river that has been dammed to harness the power of the water.
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cotton industry and dupont
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China just had a major industrial accident involving a chemical spill into one of the major rivers.  But if you want to read about sad water pollution.. read up about the old mining operations in montanna and the current water pollution because of it.  look for Clark Fork River and Berkeley superfund cleanup... Acidic mine tailings in the water.
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As for North and South Dakota/Carolina, the answer has been given. The story with VA and WV is related to the issue of slavery and the period leading up to the American Civil War.\n\n(In short: What used to be "eastern Virginia" was mostly inhabited by slave-owning plantation holders. The part that is now West Virginia was inhabited by small farmers etc. The situation threatened to split the state apart, so the people voted to split it up in two states: WV for the Union, VA for the Confederacy.)
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I have 2 passions, History and Geography and I have found that one enhances the other.\n\nI've been lucky to visit ancient sites where some kind of incident happened and was recorded in a book or a poem or an official correspondence.  What I have found, when I first read about the incident, is that I have an idea of how it happened... but when I actually visited the site, I could suddenly understand why things happened the way they did.\n\nIt's a real eye opener, especially when the geography of the area is a major part of the incident.\n\nBesides this, a knowledge of geography comes in handy for everyday things... how many people do you know who don't know which ocean borders the U.S. on the East and West Coasts? Or, which river is longer... the Mississippi or the Amazon.? etc.\n\nGet a good grounding in History and Geography and you will never be sorry you spent the effort.
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1811 1812 due to Earthquakes over a four monthalong the New Madrid Fault zone which is near Memphis and St Louis. The backward flow was temporary but the course of the river changed.
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My mom was born there! *wink*\n\nBut seriously, here is a link to some cool stories.\nhttp://www.secstate.state.nc.us/kidspg/legends.htm
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The environmental impact of Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan Petroleum Pipeline was one of the hot discussion topic in Georgia during last few years, especially because of passing through a national park. It was supposed to be completed in 2005. I don't know the latest situation. Please look over the following links to have an idea and if u goooogle it, you'll find more.\n\nCaucusus Land, Waters at Risk Along Pipeline Route \nhttp://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/nov2002/2002-11-15-01.asp\n\nEnvironmental Fears about the Pipeline\nhttp://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1248\n\nThis is the most recent and important enviromental issue in Georgia that I know.Good luck with your homework!
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It can be very disruptive of fish species that depend on free-flowing rivers.  The hydropower dams in the Pacific Northwest of the United States have long been a source of controversy because of their impacts on salmon spawning.\n\nThe construction of dams to develop hydropwer can also flood archaeological treasures.  For example, the Glenn Canyon Dam flooded out many Native American artifacts.
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It greatly increased cotton production in the South and cotton manufacturing in the North. The cotton gin increased slave work production, almost by fifty fold! The North was and still is the manufacturing megaplex, so the mills and textile factories were tremendously affected. Last but simply not least was slavery, as the Whites didn't expect the Blacks to sit on their rears and watch them. This had an adverse effect on most states, clearly showing in the end not all inventions are perfect.
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Stop tearing up the soil, Building on the shore especially digging basements adds to the silt problem exponentially.  If every tributary on the Mississippi has 500 houses put on the shores where a basement is dug and it rains thirty days while its under construction, imagine all of the cumulative soil that is ending up in the Ohio, the Missouri, the Platte...etc all the way into the Mississippi and down to The Gulf of Mexico.  It blows my mind why people are dumbfounded when they look at pictures of the Delta 50 years ago and today.  what a huge difference it is and that's not including the dams that are filled to the top with silt. Building next to shore screws up our nations hydroelectric capacity as well as our up river shipping industries
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Journal of a Tour to North Carolina by William Attmore, 1787.\n\nilliam Byrd, 1674-1744 and Edmund Ruffin, 1794-1865\nThe Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A.D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published.
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The mountains made it hard to expand westward and build the railroads.\n\nThe rivers and natural resources made it easy to make metals and become industrial.