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1. Read aloud of Doraine Bennett's Upper Coastal Plain by Bianca Popola
2. Read aloud of Doraine Bennet's Lower Coastal Plain by Bianca Popola
3. Below is an excerpt from "Land of Georgia." To visit the document for more information about the Coastal Plain region, click on the words "Land of Georgia."
"Georgia’s largest physical region is the Coastal Plain, which covers about 60 percent of the state. In a prehistoric time, this area was entirely covered by ocean. As the ocean shoreline advanced inland, waves slowly wore away hills and other land formations in their path. As time passed, billions of seashells and other remains of ocean life sank to the sea floor. Tightly packed, they eventually became beds of a soft rock called limestone. Over time, rivers and streams deposited into the ocean large amounts of soil, clay, and rock that had eroded from the hills and mountains to the north. As a result, thousands of feet of sediment--or settled deposits--covered the ocean floor."
4. Excerpt from Georgia by G.S. Prentzas:
5. Read pages 94-100 in your Social Studies textbook (Houghton Mifflin Social Studies: Our State)
6. Click here to read more about the Coastal Plain region!
6. Click here to read more about the Coastal Plain region!