Rachel Carson - North Carolina Reserve

Tidal Range

Tides are semi-diurnal and in the mesotidal range (less than six feet or less than 2 meters).

River Flow

Rachel Carson component is located between the Newport and North rivers and receives fresh water from both.

Soil Types

The soils of the component include primarily sandy profiles of such recent development that diagnostic profiles are not present. Natural dunes, beaches and vegetated spoil areas and a limited area of natural shrub thicket and maritime forest of the component are classified in the extensively-drained Newhan series. Inter-and supratidal marshes grow in the poorly- drained sand and muck of the Carteret series.

Geology

The islands and intertidal flats composing the component consist of Recent and Pleistocene sediments including sands, silts and clays of the Pamlico Terrace. The component is not a barrier island system as such, but includes islands and shoals that developed behind the barriers of Shackleford Banks and Bogue Banks.

Rachel Carson

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