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JD Breen
Nov 10, 2024
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Sea Island, GA

November 10, 2024

During the warming period of the Pleistocene, air conditioners, automobiles, and oil drilling were nonexistent. Yet sea levels were fifty feet above, and the shoreline eighty feet east of, the current Georgia coast.

Glaciers never covered this state. But their northerly retreat deposited offshore dunes along the south Atlan…

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