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FALL LINE

This geologic boundary stretching from Columbus to Augusta separates Georgia’s Piedmont and Upper Coastal Plain. It is dubbed the Fall Line because, as you move inland from the Coastal Plain, this is the first place you meet river rapids and waterfalls. Here, waterways such as the Ocmulgee River in Macon drop from the upland areas of metamorphic rock and clay soil into the lower landscape of the Coastal Plain, which is made up of sedimentary rock and sandy soil. In Georgia’s early days, the Fall Line created a natural barrier for river navigation, and goods transported on rivers in the Coastal Plain had to be off-loaded at the Fall Line and transferred to other transports to be carried upstate. This exchange led to the development of cities, such as Columbus, Macon, and Augusta, on the Fall Line.

Winding among the Rocktown boulders (ssss1)

Forests

With more than 24 million acres of forestland, Georgia has the largest area of forest of any southern state. About half of the state’s forests are primarily pine, a third of the forestland is covered with hardwoods, and the rest is a mix of pines and hardwoods.