25. Physiographic characterization of natural area: 



Subclimax community on mixed organic and fine-textured colluvial 

 deposit at toe of the Suffolk Scarp, on the western boundary of the 

 Great Dismal Swamp, in the Embayed section of the Coastal Plain 

 Province of the Atlantic Plain » 



Geological formation: 



Holocene organics and colluvium overlying the Pleistocene Pamlico 

 Formation. In recent work a few miles to the north of this locality; 

 the Pamlico has been found to be a complex group of five geologic 

 formations. Exact data is not available for the natural area 

 however . 



Geological formation age: 



About 80,000 years (Pamlico Formation) 



References cited: 



Daniels, R. E. , E. E. Gamble and W. H. Wheeler, 1978. Age of soil 

 landscapes in the Coastal Plain of North Carolinal Soil Sci. 

 Soc. Am. J. 42:98-105. 



Oaks, R. Q., Jr. and D. R. Whitehead. 1979. Geologic setting and 

 origin of the Dismal Swamp, southeastern Virginia and north- 

 eastern North Carolina. In: P. W. Kirk, Jr., ed. The Great 

 Dismal Swamp. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 

 427 p. 



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