Foraminifera, diatoms and pollen as paleoenvironmental indicators

Pliocene subtropical high energy, shallow shelf carbonates in the southern Albemarle Embayment

Pleistocene sediments represent incompletely preserved transgressive-regressive cycles.

Pleistocene terrestrial and marginal marine deposits occur only in lowstand paleovalleys.

The late Pleistocene record is thin due to a lack of accommodation space near the Cape Lookout High.