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Dr. C. Wylie Poag is a senior research scientist with the U.S.
Geological Survey, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. His research
emphasizes the integration of subsurface geophysical, geological, and
paleontological data to reconstruct the stratigraphic framework and
depositional history of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast margins of the
Unites States. His 30-year geological career includes experience as a
petroleum explorationist, a university professor, and a project
coordinator for the National Science
Foundation's Deep Sea Drilling Project. Dr. Poag has published
more than 200 abstracts, articles, and books. A recent highlight of
Dr. Poag's research has been the identification of the largest impact
crater in the United States buried beneath the lower part of Chesapeake
Bay and its surrounding peninsulas.
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