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Late-Pleistocene paleohydrography, eolian activity and frozen ground, New Jersey Pine Barrens, eastern USA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2014

H. French  and
M. Demitroff
H. French*
Affiliation:
Departments of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
M. Demitroff
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
*
Email: hmfrench@shaw.ca.

Abstract

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The Late Pleistocene surface paleohydrography of the New Jersey Pine Barrens consisted of a series of broad braided alluvial surfaces with meandering paleochannels. This drainage is best explained in terms of impermeable (i.e. frozen) substrate, high sediment load, variable or decreasing discharge, and eolian sedimentary dynamics. Evidence for eolian activity is provided by wind-abraded sand grains, coversand, dunes, ventifacts, deflation hollows and wind-polished boulders. In several places stream avulsion occurred due to channel infilling by locally-derived wind-blown sediment. The braided and meandering river systems that characterise the tundra and polar semi-desert lowlands of the Western Canadian Arctic are described as modern analogs.

Keywords

Paleodrainageeolian activitystream avulsionfrozen groundLate PleistoceneNew Jersey Pine BarrensArctic Canada
Type
Research Article
Information
Netherlands Journal of Geosciences , Volume 91 , Issue 1-2 , September 2012 , pp. 25 - 35
Copyright
Copyright © Stichting Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 2012

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