Jim Carew E - mail: carewj@cofc.edu Phone: (843) 953 - 5592 Areas of Interest: Paleobiology, Carbonate sedimentary petrology, Quaternary geology, and Karst geology.

Current Projects:

• Geomicrobiology and the role of bacteria in cave and karst formation (with Dr. Stephanie Schwabe); Life cycle of Cerion and use of stable isotopes in Cerion shells for paleoclimatic reconstruction (with Toni Reale); Stable isotopes in Bahamian speleothems (with Toni Reale).

Recent Publications:

• Ersek, V., Mylroie, J. E., Kirkland, B. L., and Carew, J. L., 2006, Paleosols of the Bahamas and the Northern Mariana islands: Source areas for the insoluble residue and relation to paleoclimate, in Davis, R. L., and Gamble, D. W., eds., Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas and Other Carbonate Regions (2004): Gerace Research Center, San Salvador, Bahamas, p. 24-31.

• Roth, M. J., Mylroie, J. E., Mylroie, J. R., Ersek, V., Ersek, C. C., and Carew, J.L., 2006, Flank margin cave inventory of the Bahamas, in Davis, R. L., and Gamble, D. W., eds., Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas and Other Carbonate Regions (2004): Gerace Research Center, San Salvador, Bahamas, p. 153-161.

• Schwabe, S. J., and Carew, J. L., 2006, Blue holes: an inappropriate moniker for water-filled caves in the Bahamas, in Davis, R. L., and Gamble, D. W., eds., Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas and Other Carbonate Regions (2004): Gerace Research Center, San Salvador, Bahamas, p. 179-187.

• Reale, T., Carew, J. L., Thomas, C., Dumars, A., and Siegrist, G., 2004, Petrology of limestones from Guam, U.S.A.: a predictable pattern of diagenesis?, in Lewis, R., and Panuska, B., eds., Proceedings of the 11th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas and Other Carbonate Regions (2002): San Salvador, Bahamas, Gerace Research Center, p. 157-164.

• Hladil, J., Carew, J. L., Mylroie, J. E., Pruner, P., Kohout, T. , Jell, J. S., Lacka, B., and Langrova, A., 2004, Anomalous magnetic susceptibility values and traces of subsurface microbial activity in carbonate banks on San Salvador, Bahamas: Facies, v. 50, p. 161-182 (first published by Springer On Line First June 8, 2004).

• Mylroie, J. E., Jenson, J. W., Mylroie, J. R., and Carew, J. L., 2004, Epikarst on eogenetic rocks, in Jones, W. K., Culver, D. C., and Herman, J. S, eds., Epikarst: Proceedings of the Symposium (2003), Special Publication 9: Karst Waters Institute, p. 132-134.

• Gamble, D. W., Taborosi, D., Mylroie , J. E, Jenson, J. W., Carew, J. L., Jocson, J. M. U., Mylroie, J. R., and Vann, D. T., 2003, The use of water temperature to characterize goundwater discharge of a coastal fracture on Guam, U.S.A.: Journal of Coastal Research, v. 19, n. 2, p. 462-471

• Hladil, J., Bosak, P., Slavik, L., Carew, J. L., Mylroie, J. E., and, Gersl, M., 2003, Early diagenetic origin and persistence of gamma-ray and magnetosusceptibility patterns in platform carbonates: comparison of Devonian and Quaternary sections: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, v. 28, p. 719-727.

• Hladil, J., Bosak, P., Slavik, L., Carew, J. L., Mylroie, J. E., and Gersl, M., 2003, A pragmatic test of the early origin and fixation of gamma-ray spectrometric (U, Th) and magneto-susceptibility (Fe) patterns related to sedimentary cycle boundaries in pure platform limestones: Carbonates and Evaporites, v. 18, no. 2, p. 89-107.

• Bosak, P., Mylroie, J. E., Hladil, J., Carew, J. L., and Slavik, L., 2002, Blow Hole Cave: An unroofed cave on San Salvador Island, The Bahamas, and its importance for detection of paleokarst caves on fossil carbonate platforms: Acta Carsologica, Ljubljana, v. 31, no. 3, p. 51-74.

• Carew, J. L., and Mylroie, J. E., 2001, Quaternary CarbonateEolianites of the Bahamas: Useful Analogues for the Interpretation of Ancient Rocks?, in Abegg, F. E., Harris, P. M., and Loope, D. B., eds., Modern and Ancient Carbonate Eolianiets: Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy, and Diagenesis: Society for Sedimentary Geology [S.E.P.M.] Special Publication No.71, p. 33-45.

• Sparkman-Johnson, S. D., Carew, J. L., and Mylroie, J. E., 2001, The surficial geology of the Hard Bargain area, San Salvador Island, Bahamas, in Greenstein B., and Carney, C., eds., Proceedings of the10th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas and Other Carbonate Regions (2000): San Salvador, Bahamas, Gerace Research Center, p. 67-77.

• Mylroie, J. E., and Carew J. L., 2000, Speleogenesis in Coastal and Oceanic Settings, Chapter 5.1, in Klimchouk, A. B., Ford, D. C., Palmer, A. N., and Dreybrodt, W. , eds., Speleogenesis: Evolution of Karst Aquifers: Huntsville, Alabama, National Speleological Society, p. 226-233.

• Carew, J. L., and Mylroie, J. E., 1997, The Bahamas (Chapter 3A), In Vacher, H. L., and Quinn, T., eds., Geology and Hydrology of Carbonate Islands, Developments in Sedimentology, v. 54: New York, Elsevier Publ. Co., p. 91-13.

• Mylroie, J. E. and Carew, J. L., 1997, Land use and carbonate island karst, In Beck, B. F. and Stephenson, J. B., eds., The Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology of Karst Terranes: Brookfield, Illinois, A. A. Balkema Publ., p. 3-12.

• Mylroie, J. E., and Carew, J. L., 1995, Geology and karst geomorphology of San Salvador Island, Bahamas: Carbonates and Evaporites, v. 10, n. 2, p. 193-206.

• Mylroie, J. E., Carew, J. L., and Vacher, H. L., 1995 Karst development in the Bahamas and Bermuda, In Curran, H. A., and White, B. (eds.),Terrestrial and shallow marine geology of the Bahamas and Bermuda: Geological Society of America Special Paper 300, p. 251-267. - [also BBSR (Bermuda Biological Station for Research) Contribution No. 1398].

• Carew, J. L., and Mylroie, J. E., 1995, Depositional model and stratigraphy for the Quaternary geology of the Bahama islands, In Curran, H. A., and White, B. (eds.),Terrestrial and shallow marine geology of the Bahamas and Bermuda: Geological Society of America Special Paper 300, p. 5-31.

• Carew, J. L., and Mylroie, J. E., 1995, Quaternary tectonic stability of the Bahamian archipelago: Evidence from fossil coral reefs and flank margin caves: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 14 (2), p. 145-153.

• Mylroie, J. E., and Carew, J. L., 1995, Chapter 3: Karst development on carbonate islands: In Budd, D. A., Saller, A. H., and Harris, P. M., (eds.), Unconformities and Porosity in Carbonate Strata: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 63, p. 55-76.

Courses Taught:

• GEOL 101 / 101L - Dynamic Earth
• 105 / 105L - Earth History
• GEOL 333 - Paleobiology
• GEOL 430 - Sedimentary Petrology
• GEOL 416 - Paleoecology

Links:

• Geological Society of America

Last Updated: January 26, 2007