Tag Archives: North Carolina

Scenic Saturday: Pinnacle in the Piedmont

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

The peak of Big Pinnacle at Pilot Mountain State Park rises more than 450 m above the surrounding North Carolina Piedmont. Big Pinnacle is just the most eye-catching of series of peaks, called the Sauratown Mountains, that are a tectonic … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, geology, hydrology

One recipe for flooding: Take a tropical cyclone and add steep topography

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

The past few weeks have brought two tropical cyclones* to the eastern seaboard of the United States. They serve nicely to illustrate the topographic controls on flood generation that we were been talking about in my Fluvial Processes class recently. … Continue reading →