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



Landform: Pocosin; a slightly domed deposit of peats, with 



peaty mineral soils. 

 Shelter: Open to partly sheltered 



Aspect: not applicable 



Slope Angle : nearly level 



Profile: Flat 



Surface patterns: irregular 



Position: not applicable 



25. Physiographic characterization of natural area: 



Fire-influenced wetland communities (mostly climax) of a 

 pelopsammosere, on recent peats accumulated in a shallow de- 

 pression in the Chowan marine terrace, in the Inner Coastal 

 Plain Region of the Embayed Section of the Coastal Plain Pro- 

 vince. 



Geological Formation: 



Possibly underlain by units of the Quaternary Flanner 

 Beach Formation, over pre -Quaternary rocks of the Pliocene 

 to Miocene Yorktown Formation. The natural area lies on the 

 Chowan terrace. 



Geological Formation age: 



Flanner Beach Formation - Pleistocene; "lower Sangamon or 

 pre-Sangamon (?)"; 100,000 years BP 



Yorktown - Pliocene or Miocene; 7,000,000 years BP 



References Cited: 



Reconnaissance Geology of the Submerged and Emerged Coastal 

 Plain Province, Cape Lookout Area, North Carolina. Robert B. 

 Mixon and Orrin H. Pilkey. USGS Professional Paper 859 (1976). 



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