Late Neogene and Quaternary evolution of the northern Albemarle Embayment (mid-Atlantic continental margin, USA)

Mallinson, David J.; Riggs, Stanley R.; Thieler, E. Robert; Culver, Stephen J.; Farrell, Kathleen M.; Foster, David S.; Corbett, D. Reide; Horton, Benjamin P.; Wehmiller, John F.

doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2005.02.030

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“…Using geophysics, biofacies, stratigraphy, and geochronology, coupled with hydrodynamic modeling, this study enables an understanding of the evolution of Currituck Sound (Figure 1). This interpretation of the paleoshoreline, paleoinlets and tidal ranges, in response to Holocene regional climate events and sealevel change, is then compared with other studies (e.g., Riggs et al, 1992;Dalrymple et al, 1992;Oertel et al, 1992;Mallinson et al, 2005Mallinson et al, , 2010andCulver et al, 2008, 2011).…”

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“…Previous studies using seismic-reflection data, foraminiferal distribution, and lithofacies analysis have been fundamental in understanding the stratigraphy and evolution of the North Carolina coastal system (eg., Riggs et al, 1992;Boss et al, 2002;Mallinson et al, 2005Mallinson et al, , 2010Culver et al, 2008). Riggs et al (1992) found as many as 18 Quaternary sea-level highstand events within the 60 m of preserved Quaternary deposits in northeastern North Carolina.…”

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“…These studies provide the initial geologic framework, both behind the barrier islands and offshore, which several other studies have since built upon. Mallinson et al (2005) Foraminiferal and sedimentological data are commonly used for Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction (e.g., Hippensteel and Martin, 1999;Abbene et al, 2006;Culver et al, 2006;Robinson and McBride, 2006;Vance et al, 2006;Smith et al, 2009;Mallinson et al, 2010;Grand Pre et al, 2011;Leorri and Cearreta, 2004).…”

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“…Quaternary sequence that fills a regional depositional basin called the Albemarle Embayment; this embayment runs under the northern Pamlico Sound through the eastern Albemarle Sound (Riggs et al, 1995;Mallinson et al, 2005Mallinson et al, , 2010 (Figure 1). …”

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“…His model provides a template for understanding the geomorphology and evolution of drowned river valley estuaries depending on the relative strength of wave, tidal, and fluvial energy. Although this model proved useful in understanding the evolution of Albemarle Sound in NC (Mallinson et al, 2005), it has not been shown to apply to shallower, back-barrier lagoons (the subject of this study). Culver et al (2007) and Grand Pre et al (2011) found that the low-lying barrier islands that comprise the North Carolina coast have partially "collapsed" (i.e., large sections have been reduced to submarine shoals) and been rebuilt at least twice during the late Holocene, affecting the evolution of Pamlico Sound (Figure 1).…”

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The long‐term (3000 years) morphodynamics of an idealized muddy backbarrier tidal basins is studied using a shallow‐water hydrodynamics and wind‐wave model (Deltf3D‐FLOW‐WAVE), modified to include fully coupled marsh organogenic accretion, biostabilization, drag increase, and wave‐induced marsh edge erosion. The latter process is implemented with a novel probabilistic algorithm. Starting from an initially empty basin with a uniform bed slope, a network of channels incise the mudflat, sediment is released, and marshes establish at the basin landward margin. If enough mud is supplied to the basin from the shelf, marsh progradation counteracts marsh edge erosion and marshes expand. Marsh expansion does not completely fill the basin but leaves open a few km‐wide channels, large enough for waves to resuspend sediment. Starting from a basin (almost) filled with marshes, a drop in the external mud supply or an increase in the rate of relative sea level rise causes the basin to empty out by marsh edge erosion, while the marsh platform, aided by reworking of the sediment released by marsh retreat and mudflat deepening, keeps pace even with fast rates (10 mm/yr) of relative sea level rise. Even if the marsh does not drown, the marsh retreats faster if the rate of sea level rise increases, because more sediment is sequestered to fill the newly created accommodation space and is thus not available for marsh progradation. This study suggests that prediction of marsh erosion requires a basin‐scale sediment budget, and that edge erosion, not platform drowning, is likely to dominate marsh loss.

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Late Neogene and Quaternary evolution of the northern Albemarle Embayment (mid-Atlantic continental margin, USA)

Cited by 68 publications

References 19 publications

Late Holocene Evolution of Currituck Sound, North Carolina, USA: Environmental Change Driven by Sea-Level Rise, Storms, and Barrier Island Morphology

Late Holocene Evolution of Currituck Sound, North Carolina, USA: Environmental Change Driven by Sea-Level Rise, Storms, and Barrier Island Morphology

The contribution of glacial isostatic adjustment to projections of sea‐level change along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America

Long‐term morphodynamics of muddy backbarrier basins: Fill in or empty out?

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