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Ice Age Carolinas

There are hundreds of thousands of oval depressions dotting the Atlantic coastal plain—relicts of a cooler, drier, windier time.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and topographic data from North Carolina State University. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published February 11, 2021
Data acquired November 18, 2020

Sources:
Aircraft Sensors
Landsat 8 > OLI