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- Title
MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE ESTUARINE DEPOSITS, BLOUNTS BAY AREA, BEAUFORT COUNTY, EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.
- Authors
MILLER III, WILLIAM
- Abstract
Sand and mud beds exposed in river bluffs in the vicinity of Blounts Bay, south shore of the Pamlico River, are the northern equivalent of the middle Pleistocene Flanner Beach Formation, known primary from outcrops along the Neuse River 45 km to the south. The Blounts Bay deposits are sparsely fossiliferous and record deposition in the inner parts of a large coastal lagoon, comparable to the modern Pamlico Sound. The lower dark-colored mud division is named the Hills Point Member; the upper lighter-colored interlayered sand and mud division is the Mauls Point Member. Both subdivisions are lithologically distinctive and laterally continuous for ca. 15 km, NW to SE, in discontinuous cliff exposures. It appears that little attention has been paid to these important outcrops, which reveal the facies organization of the inner portion of an extensive, interglacial, backbarrier estuarine system. Relationships to apparently coeval deposits exposed in the Lee Creek Mine to the east and to depositional cycles preserved in the thick late Cenozoic succession within the Albemarle Embayment to the north remain unclear.
- Subjects
BEAUFORT (N.C.); PAMLICO River (N.C.); PLEISTOCENE Epoch; SEDIMENTATION &; deposition; OUTCROPS (Geology); LEE Creek Mine (N.C.)
- Publication
Southeastern Geology, 2018, Vol 53, Issue 1, p33
- ISSN
0038-3678
- Publication type
Article