LATE PLEISTOCENE ICE-MARGINAL DUNE FIELDS ON THE ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN, NEW JERSEY PINE BARRENS, USA

a t i o n b a s i n o r " l o c h " ( s p u n g ) Great Egg Harbor River Quaternary braid plain 2 IB-01 Indian Branch Quaternary braid plain 2 dune field polygons Indian Branch Soil Pit SectionsSix soil excava,on pits were dug, five at the crest of parabolic dunes (130 cm deep), one at a lune@e (100 cm deep).Soil weathering was most advanced at LOS-01, but was otherwise similar to the other study sites.LS-01, Weymouth Dune Field at "Lochs-of-the-Swamp" A -dark gray-brown color, with organic matter & charcoal E -light-colored, albic horizon; the E/B boundary is wavy irregular with icicle-like glossic tongues; podzolization Bs -yellowish brown colored, spodic horizon C -unweathered yellow-brown eolian parent material, being Miocene-aged marginal marine and fluvial sands of the Cohansey (Tch) & Bridgeton (Tbr) Formations.