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The Carolina Sandhills: Quaternary eolian sand sheets and dunes along the updip margin of the Atlantic Coastal Plain province, southeastern United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Christopher S. Swezey ,
Bradley A. Fitzwater ,
G. Richard Whittecar ,
Shannon A. Mahan ,
Christopher P. Garrity ,
Wilma B. Alemán Gonzalez  and
Kerby M. Dobbs
Christopher S. Swezey*
Affiliation:
US. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 926A, Reston, VA 20192, USA
Bradley A. Fitzwater
Affiliation:
Old Dominion University, Dept. of Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA
G. Richard Whittecar
Affiliation:
Old Dominion University, Dept. of Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA
Shannon A. Mahan
Affiliation:
US. Geological Survey, Box 25046 Denver Federal Center, MS 974, Denver, CO 80225, USA
Christopher P. Garrity
Affiliation:
US. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 956, Reston, VA 20192, USA
Wilma B. Alemán Gonzalez
Affiliation:
US. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 926A, Reston, VA 20192, USA
Kerby M. Dobbs
Affiliation:
Maser Consulting, 2000 Midlantic Drive, MT. Laurel, NJ 08054, USA
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail address:[email protected](C.S. Swezey)
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Abstract

The Carolina Sandhills is a physiographic region of the Atlantic Coastal Plain province in the southeastern United States. In Chesterfield County (South Carolina), the surficial sand of this region is the Pinehurst Formation, which is interpreted as eolian sand derived from the underlying Cretaceous Middendorf Formation. This sand has yielded three clusters of optically stimulated luminescence ages: (1) 75 to 37 thousand years ago (ka), coincident with growth of the Laurentide Ice Sheet; (2) 28 to 18 ka, coincident with the last glacial maximum (LGM); and (3) 12 to 6 ka, mostly coincident with the Younger Dryas through final collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Relict dune morphologies are consistent with winds from the west or northwest, coincident with modern and inferred LGM January wind directions. Sand sheets are more common than dunes because of effects of coarse grain size (mean range: 0.35-0.59 mm) and vegetation. The coarse grain size would have required LGM wind velocities of at least 4-6 m/sec, accounting for effects of colder air temperatures on eolian sand transport. The eolian interpretation of the Carolina Sandhills is consistent with other evidence for eolian activity in the southeastern United States during the last glaciation.

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EolianPinehurst FormationQuaternarySouth Carolina
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Research Article
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Quaternary Research , Volume 86 , Issue 3 , November 2016 , pp. 271 - 286
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Copyright © University of Washington 2016

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