24d. Topography Summary: CT 1 , CT 2 



Landform: alluvial floodplain (drowned river valley) 



Shelter: partly sheltered to open 



Aspect : n/a 



Slope Angle: n/a 



Profile : Flat 



Surface patterns: hummocky, peat surface except along stream 

 channels where thin layer of silt and mud sediments occur 

 Position: n/a 



25. Physiographic characterization of natural area: 



Late successional to climax communities on organic and 

 inorganic sediments of the Roanoke River drowned river valley, 

 and situated on the Pamlico Terrace of the Coastal Plain pro- 

 vince of the Atlantic Plain. 



Geological Formation: 



Marine and fluvial sediments of the Pamlico Terrace 



Geological Formation age : 



Pleistocene (100,000 years B.P.) to 



Recent (Holocene) less than 6,000 years B.P. 



References Cited: 



Erlich, R. N. 1980. Early Holocene to Recent Development 

 and Sedimentation of the Roanoke River area, North Carolina. 

 Unpublished dissertation, Department of Geology, UNC - Chapel 

 Hill. 



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