Quaternary Inland Eolian Dunes of the U.

S Atlantic Coastal Plain summary

Many inland areas of the Atlantic Coastal province of the United States are
mainly composed of sand sheets and Quaternary Eolian dunes. These features include
the Carolina Sandhills region, river valleys, Northern coastal plain Upland locations, and
Carolina Bays. The Eolian Dunes are mainly parabolic in the Northern Coastal plain's
upland areas and river valleys, arcuate adjacent to the Carolina bays, and linear to the
Carolina Sandhills areas. Eolian Sands’ ages range from Circa (ca) 92 to 5 Ka,
indicating that these features are unavailable today. These eolian sands have been
tarnished by pedogenic processes and vegetation and are alleviated by the current
environmental conditions. Several features that are linked to the sand sheets and Eolian
dunes indicate that winds that created these sands blew from northwest of coastal
plains of Delaware and Maryland, and others were coming from the west in the coastal
plans of south Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. The majority of the sand sheets
and eolian dunes are made up of fine and medium size sands. The coarse sand
component is also present in the Carolina sandhills. Conditions of robust winds velocity
facilitated the mobilization of Eolian sands. Other factors are lower air humidity: lower
air temperature and vegetation cover. The substantial rate that encouraged this is
estimated to be 4-6 meters per second. Eolian dunes organization appeared to have
happened periodically at a particular site, even though sites located at South had more
excellent rates of Eolian Sands leading to Pre-LGM ages. The figure below illustrates
Eolian done morphology in South Carolina, Carolina sandhills, and chesterfield together
with the elevations from the sea level.