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Black Seashells Hint Oil Traps Off Southeast US Coast
Duke University geologists explain why black seashells form in salt marsh mud and how these bands mark ancient shorelines that served as oil traps. Their work with shells buried near Beaufort and surveys from the Eastward map former shores along the Carolinas Georgia and Florida guiding prospectors. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE
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Don Seaver
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Orrin Pilkey
Beaufort
Duke’s Marine Laboratory
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Carolinas
Georgia
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Gulf of Mexico