• 1. The book website www.alabamariversbook.org that is printed on the back cover of the book and on bookmarks is no longer in use. The new website for the book is www.alabamarocksandrivers.com (also accessible using the QR Code printed on the new Alabama Rivers bookmark).

    2. Page 72, line 18 should read, Pond Spring, not Pond Springs.

    3. Page 76, line 14: the toxaphene spill was in 1950, not 1958.

    4. Page 79, Table 3. R. L. Harris Lake was impounded in 1982, not 1962.

    5. Page 94, line 3 should read, Eocene Epoch, not Epic.

    6. Page 109, Celestial Beauty: The Bogue Chitto Creek watershed is adjacent to the Cahaba River Basin and flows directly to the Alabama River. The section titled Celestial Beauty should, therefore, be within text about the Alabama River in Chapter 7.

  • 1. Page 11, last line: The Selma Formation should be called the Mooreville Chalk Formation (within the Selma Group)

    2. Page 121, Figs. 9.11 and 9.12 are photos of a mosasaur pterygoid bone (from a West Alabama creek), not the mosasaur premaxilla bone described in the text. The figures illustrate the desired concept, however: non-descript fossils found in the field can sometimes be prepared to fine specimens.