24d. Topography Summary: CT 1 , CT 2 , CT 3 

 Land form: embayed river swamp 

 Shelter: sheltered to partly sheltered 

 Aspect: not applicable 

 Slope Angle : not applicable 

 Profile: Flat 



Surface patterns: Hummocky peat surface 

 Position: not applicable 



CT 4 



mesic sand ridge within 

 embayed river swamp 

 sheltered 



not applicable 



not applicable 



Flat 

 Smooth 



not applicable 



25. Physiographic characterization of natural area: 



A range of early successional to near-climax communities on 

 organic swamp deposits and mineral sand ridges lying within the 

 Albemarle Sound drowned river valley, and situated on the Pamlico 

 Terrace of the Coastal Plain province of the Atlantic Plain. 



Geological Formation: 



Fluvial and marine sediments of the Pamlico Terrace 

 formation. 



Geological Formation age: 



Pleistocene (100,000 years B.P.) overlain by 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 and Sedimentation of the Roanoke River Area, N.C. Unpublished 

 dissertation, Department of Geology, UNC-Chapel Hill. 



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