Corrigendum to “Calibration of amino acid racemization (AAR) kinetics in United States mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain Quaternary mollusks using 87Sr/86Sr analyses: Evaluation of kinetic models and estimation of regional Late Pleistocene temperature history” [Quaternary Geochronlogy 7 (2012) 21–36]

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 52-53
Author(s):  
John F. Wehmiller ◽  
W. Burleigh Harris ◽  
Brian S. Boutin ◽  
Kathleen M. Farrell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Kinetic Models ◽  
Atlantic Coastal Plain ◽  
Temperature History ◽  
Amino Acid Racemization ◽  
Atlantic Coastal

Comparison of Amino Acid Racemization Geochronometry with Lithostratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, Uranium-Series Coral Dating, and Magnetostratigraphy in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of the Southeastern United States

1982 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. McCartan ◽  
J. P. Owens ◽  
B. W. Blackwelder ◽  
B. J. Szabo ◽  
D. F. Belknap ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Atlantic Coastal Plain ◽  
Amino Acid Racemization ◽  
Uranium Series ◽  
Myrtle Beach ◽  
Atlantic Coastal ◽  
North And South ◽  
Integrated Study

AbstractThe results of an integrated study comprising litho- and biostratigraphic investigations, uranium-series coral dating, amino acid racemization in molluscs, and paleomagnetic measurements are compared to ascertain relative and absolute ages of Pleistocene deposits of the Atlantic Coastal Plain in North and South Carolina. Four depositional events are inferred for South Carolina and two for North Carolina by all methods. The data suggest that there are four Pleistocene units containing corals that have been dated at about 100,000 yr, 200,000 yr, 450,000 yr, and over 1,000,000 yr. Some conflicts exist between the different methods regarding the correlation of the younger of these depositional events between Charleston and Myrtle Beach. Lack of good uranium-series dates for the younger material at Myrtle Beach makes the correlation with the deposits at Charleston more difficult.

The Carolina Sandhills: Quaternary eolian sand sheets and dunes along the updip margin of the Atlantic Coastal Plain province, southeastern United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher S. Swezey ◽  
Bradley A. Fitzwater ◽  
G. Richard Whittecar ◽  
Shannon A. Mahan ◽  
Christopher P. Garrity ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Grain Size ◽  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Atlantic Coastal Plain ◽  
Laurentide Ice Sheet ◽  
Coarse Grain ◽  
Eolian Sand ◽  
Atlantic Coastal ◽  
Sand Sheets

AbstractThe Carolina Sandhills is a physiographic region of the Atlantic Coastal Plain province in the southeastern United States. In Chesterfield County (South Carolina), the surficial sand of this region is the Pinehurst Formation, which is interpreted as eolian sand derived from the underlying Cretaceous Middendorf Formation. This sand has yielded three clusters of optically stimulated luminescence ages: (1) 75 to 37 thousand years ago (ka), coincident with growth of the Laurentide Ice Sheet; (2) 28 to 18 ka, coincident with the last glacial maximum (LGM); and (3) 12 to 6 ka, mostly coincident with the Younger Dryas through final collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Relict dune morphologies are consistent with winds from the west or northwest, coincident with modern and inferred LGM January wind directions. Sand sheets are more common than dunes because of effects of coarse grain size (mean range: 0.35-0.59 mm) and vegetation. The coarse grain size would have required LGM wind velocities of at least 4-6 m/sec, accounting for effects of colder air temperatures on eolian sand transport. The eolian interpretation of the Carolina Sandhills is consistent with other evidence for eolian activity in the southeastern United States during the last glaciation.

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