Download or read book Ground-Water Supply of Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Joel O. Kimrey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ground-Water Supply of Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area, Vol. 2 The Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area, North Carolina, is on a group of coastal islands known as the outer banks. These islands, forming the eastern rim of the State, are barrier beaches that separate the Atlantic Ocean to the east from the various sounds to the west. Park facilities extend for some 77 miles along these barrier beaches and occupy a part of three is lands Bodie, Hatteras, and Ocracoke (fig. I). Shifting sand dunes blanket these islands in areas not stabil ized by vegetation. Sand dunes generally border the ocean beaches, and tidal marshes occur on the sound-side of the islands. The is lands comprising the Park facilities range in width from a maximum of about 3 miles at Cape Hatteras to a minimum of less than a quarter of a mile along stretches of Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands. Elevations vary from sea level in the sound-side-marshes to as much as 60 feet above sea level on some dunes. Average precipitation ranges from inches at Manteo to inches at Hatteras (fig. Being greatest between July and October. The surface sands of the area have high permeabilities and absorb rainfall rapidly. If surface runoff occurs, it is probably confined to the tidal marshes bordering the sounds. Rainfall moves directly downward to the water table, then discharges by lateral seepage to the ocean and the sounds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.