ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF SHACKLEFORD BANKS, CAPE LOOKOUT NATIONAL SEASHORE, NORTH cAROLINA
Riggs SR, Ames DV, Mallinson DJ. ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF SHACKLEFORD BANKS, CAPE LOOKOUT NATIONAL SEASHORE, NORTH cAROLINA. Research Permit and Reporting System
Shackleford Banks, a 14 km-long barrier island is situated W of Core Banks and Cape Lookout and S of Back Sound. Geologic studies carried out over the past decades interpreted the geomorphic and geologic evolution of the back-barrier features as flood-tide deltas of former inlets. The present study is based on field mapping, LiDAR and aerial photo time slice data, and ground-penetrating radar survey,s and is in cooperation with NPS archeological surveys with radiocarbon age data.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Riggs, Stanley; Ames, Dorothea; Mallinson, David
- Publisher
- Research Permit and Reporting System
- Units
- CALO