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Coastline
Water seeped through the clay leaving sand particles moved by waves on the coast. the wind and waves are piled into dunes. change of the climate causes freezing and refreezing of polar ice capes. this takes a toll on the whole shoreline completely -
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Barrier Islands
The barrier islands formed in sort of a dune system. the islands form due to a large supply of sand with wind to move it along with waves to form the sand. The N.C. islands are formed and secure and can be a long chain of sand bars -
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Appalachain Mountains
The Mountains formed 480 million years ago due to two plates colliding at the ridge.The plates formed during the construction of the supere continent of pangea -
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Valleys
Valleys are formed fromt the erosion of water from a river cutting through a mountain, the grand cannon is great example of a river formed valley there are also glacier formed valleys which create a U instead of V. -
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NC River Basin
A River basin is the land that water flows across or under on its way to the river. a river basin also holds all plants,animals and humans that live along it.River basins run through watersheds -
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Fall Zone
A fall zone is a break inbetween and inland region of hard crysalline basement rock and softer coastal plain rock.you might not be able to go all the way up stream on a river from the sea without locks blocking you -
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Honors Project: Lithosphere
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Charleston, SC
This Earthquake that happend in late 1886 was said to be felt in Cuba along with also shaking church bells in Chicago. Now it can be readily tested by the deployment of a denser station network in conjunction with a longer monitoring period to help locate the faults in the earth for further safety precautions -
Hurricane Andrew
Just like Katrina, Andrew originated in the Bahamas and stormed to Southern Florida, then along the southern states and came off the coast of Louisiana. Hurricane Andrew was a category 5 hurricane. This storm killed 65 people in total -
Winter Storm
This winter storm happend in 1998 due to cold weather and low air pressure. It caused major power outage across eastern sea board, heavy snowfall was everywhere iced pipes in houses caused heavy damage along with a couple feet of snow pilled on top of houses. People were locked inside their houses for days -
Hurricane Joaquin
Hurricane Joaquin devestated the eastern seaboard causing tons of damage to peoples homes all up and down the coast it hit florida at 2 am on sunday and finished out new york on wednesday and 2 am. it was calculated at 1200UTC. -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina is probably one of the most destructed storms in the history of the US. The storm originated over the Bahamas and tracted it's way to the lone star state. It stormed all the way into central Florida then made it's way up the coast into the Atlantic Ocean destruction from this storm is still affected today. -
Louisa County, Virginia
The earthquake was felt across more than a dozen U.S. states and in several Canadian provinces.The earthquake located in the Piedmont region, The Virginia Piedmont area was formed originally as part of a zone of repeated continental collision that created the Appalachian Mountains
