St. Catherine's Island Research

St. Catherine's Island Research Publications

Updated: February 2003

Morris, R. and H. B. Rollins, 1977. Observations on Intertidal Organism Associations, St. Catherines Island, GA. I. General Description and Paleoecological Implications: American Museum Natural History, Bull. 159(3), p. 87-128.

Fierstien IV, J. F., 1977. Morphometric analysis of Littorina irrorata from St. Catherines Island, Georgia. MS thesis, Dept. of Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh (H. B. Rollins, advisor).

Fierstien IV, J. F. and H. B. Rollins, 1987. Observations on intertidal organism associations of St. Catherines Island, Georgia. II. Morphology and distribution of Littorina irrorata (Say). American Museum Novitates, No. 2873, 31p.

Venn, C., 1987. Foraminiferal populations of two Spartina marshes in Georgia and their paleoecologic implications. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 19: 134. (H. B. Rollins, advisor).

West, R. R., Rollins, H. B. and R. M. Busch. 1988. Taphonomy and an intertidal palimpsest surface: implications for the fossil record. Invited paper, Symposium on Paleocommunity Temporal Dynamics, S.E.P.M. Ann. Midyear Mtg., Columbus, OH, Abstracts 5: 57.

Sherrod, B. L., Rollins, H. B. and S. K. Kennedy, 1988. Subrecent intertidal diatoms from St. Catherines Island, Georgia: Taphonomic implications. Geological Society of America, Ann. Mtg., Denver.

Sherrod, B. L., Rollins, H. B., and S. K. Kennedy, 1989. Subrecent intertidal diatoms from St. Catherines Island, Georgia: Taphonomic implications. Jour. Coastal Research, v. 5, p. 665-677.

West, R. R. and H. B. Rollins, 1989. The “anatomy” of a condensed sequence: An example from coastal Georgia. Symposium L6, Interdisciplinary Problems in Taphonomy, 28th International Geological Congress, Abstracts 3:3 –350.

Rollins, H. B. and R. R. West, 1989. Taphonomic constraints on event horizons: short-term time-averaging of Anadara brasiliana valves, St. Catherines Island, GA. Symposium, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 21(2):62-63.

Rollins, H. B., R. R. West, and R.M. Busch, 1990. Hierarchical genetic stratigraphy and marine paleoecology. In W. Miller, III (ed.), Paleocommunity temporal dynamics: the long term development of multispecies assemblages. Paleontological Society Special Publication 5: p. 273-308 .

West, R. R., Rollins, H. B., and R. M. Busch. 1990. Taphonomy and an intertidal palimpsest surface: Implications for the fossil record. In W. Miller, III (ed.), Paleocommunity temporal dynamics: the long term development of multispecies assemblages. Paleontological Society Special Publication 5: p.351-369.

Prezant, R. S., Rollins, H. B., and R. B. Toll. 1990. Dispersal of adult hard clams as an adjunct to larval recruitment. American Zoologist 30, p. 89A.

Prezant, R. S., Rollins, H. B. and R. B. Toll. 1990. Habitats for Mercenaria mercenaria at St. Catherines Island, Georgia. Ann. Mtg. American Society of Zoologists.

Rollins, H. B., Prezant, R. S. and R. B. Toll. 1990. A novel mode of recruitment of the hard clam Mercenaria at St. Catherines, Georgia. American Malacological Union Mtg.

Rollins, H. B., Prezant, R. S., and R. Toll, 1990. Recruitment dynamics of the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria): An alternative model. Abstract, AMU mtg., Woods Hole, MA.

West, R. R. and H. B. Rollins, 1991. Temporal resolution of bedding surface events: Examples from the Georgia Bight. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 23(1): 147.

Linsley, D. M., Rollins, H. B., Bishop, G. and F. Rich. 1991. Wisconsinan sea level changes and the stratigraphy of the Georgia coast. Geological Society of America Mtg, San Diego, CA, Absracts with Programs 23: A459.

Rollins, H. B., Prezant, R. S., West, R. R., and R. B. Toll. 1992. Metapopulation dynamics: potential constraints upon interpretation of fossil population structure and taphonomic gradients. Invited paper, 27th Mtg. Geological Society of America, Northeast Section 24(3): p. 75.

Prezant, R. S., Rollins, H. B. and R. B. Toll. 1992. Reproduction dynamics of adult hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria) in estuarine habitats. Shellfish Institute of North America/National Shellfisheries Association mtg.

Mannion-Rowe, P. S., 1992. Environmental variation in shell chemistry of the hard clam Mercenaria mercenaria in a Georgia salt marsh estuary. MS thesis, Dept. of Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh. 59p. (H. B. Rollins, advisor).

Linsley, D. M., 1993. Depositional environments of St. Catherines Island: Their relationship to Late Quaternary sea-level change and application to late Paleozoic cyclic stratigraphy. Geology and Planetary Science PhD dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 186p. (H. B. Rollins, advisor).

Prezant, R. S., Rollins, H. B., Toll, R. B., and S. Y. Skoog, 1994. Population dynamics of hard clams on point bars of St. Catherines Island, Georgia, Abstract, National Association of Biological Scientists Conference, 11(1): 138.

Venn, C., 1996. Recent benthic Foraminiferida of two salt marshes on St. Catherines Island, Georgia: Paleoecological implications. PhD dissertation, Dept. of Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh, 126p. (H. B. Rollins, advisor).

Pottinger, J. E., 1996. Origin and development of beach ridges on St. Catherines Island: Impact of storm events. MS thesis, Dept. of Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh, 101p. (H. B. Rollins, advisor).

Rollins, H. B. and R. R. West, 1997. Taphonomic constraints on event horizons: Short-term averaging of Anadara brasiliana valves, St. Catherines Island, Georgia. In C. C. Brett and G. C. Baird (eds.), Paleontological Events: Stratigraphic, Ecological, and Evolutionary Implication: p. 41-56, New York: Columbia University Press.

Prezant, R. S., Rollins, H. B. and R. B. Toll. 1997. Dynamics of adult and juvenile bivalve dispersal: a shifting paradigm. American Malacological Union Ann. Mtg.

Goodfriend, G. A., and H. B. Rollins, 1998. Recent barrier beach retreat in Georgia: Dating exhumed salt marshes by aspartic acid racemization and post-bomb radiocarbon. Jour. Coastal Research, v. 14(3), p. 960-969.

DeLillo, N. J., 1998. Iron sulfide formation and the in vivo pyritization of Mercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus) in the salt marshes of St. Catherines Island, Georgia. PhD dissertation, Dept. of Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh, 349p (H. B. Rollins, advisor).

Prezant, R. S., Toll, R. B., Rollins, H. B. and E. J. Chapman. 2002. Marine macroinvertebrate diversity of St. Catherines Island, Georgia. American Museum Novitates, No. 3367, 31p.

Cleveland, C. M., Prezant, R. S., Rollins, H. B., Toll, R. and J. Wylie. 2002. Mass exhumation and deposition of Mulinia lateralis (Bivalvia: Mactridae) on an intertidal beach, St. Catherines Island, Georgia, USA. The Veliger 45(1), p. 65-70.