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Bob, Now I know why I love NJPineBarrens; the observations are always so interesting! You ask a very good question. The Pine Barrens was positioned within miles of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, a rampageous thug that in volume was nearly 50% larger than today’s Antarctic Ice Sheet. With all that...

Come out in the beautiful autumn weather, Saturday, November 14, for Reading South Jersey. (Campus Center Bookstore, 12:30pm-2:00pm). Since 2013 Stockton students have been publishing and republishing attractive and well-edited paperback editions of significant but hard to get titles...

T.R.. Scots settled Nesco at the site of an Indian camp in 1707 (Green ca. 1920s?: 4–5). Green's account of the area is a pretty good start fore anyone who hasn't already read it. Has this been reprinted? If not, maybe we can get Jerseyman to reprint it through the South Jersey Culture and...

It’s amazing how quickly the Pine Barrens reclaims the human footprint. The eastern Lenape Farms land nearest the Great Egg Harbor River was intensively farmed since colonial times but was abandoned with the establishment of Bethlehem Loading Company's munitions plant, and in the interior was...

Jeff, my journey from tree expert to the adopted discipline of geographer is not bracketed by conventional cognition of time and space. To me tiny sand grains are huge boulder-sized observation obstacles to nanoparticles, and that Pinelands past permafrost occurred just yesterday. It's a wonder...

Jeff, I misread your question. You were referring to the pore space between weathered grains, not the actual grain-wetting characteristics of individual microfractured quartz! Spung bottom sediments are densely packed, their fine interstitial pore space clogged with dust. Larger spungs are...

Collectively they are all important wetlands, of which closed basins (intermittent ponds) are but one feature form. More confounding is that spungs have many formal and informal names, as do their “Carolina Bay” counterparts around the world (see Demitroff 2007)...

Porous is not the best grain description, but microfractured grain-pore qualities are very different from in situ adjacent non-cryogenic unfractured sand. We found spung sediments matched soil in northern Siberia that experienced very cold, polar-like climate conditions. Ice marginal land all...

Thank you for providing a definition. Spungs are not confined, static water-holding systems as you describe. Instead, spungs are dynamic water-passage systems where shallow groundwater passes through them. Demitroff (2007) argued that these depression, interpreted as Pleistocene blowouts, are...

Thanks for your vested interest in spung coverage to the Nth degree! Just a bit of overwork-induced dyslexia. The post is edited with the intended word by adding the missing letter "n." He'll get a 'oogie...

Woodjin, great observations! An interesting read on this topic is Zampella & Laidig (2003). The Pinelands Commission scientists concluded that well established (+50-years) excavations were roughly as good a habitat as natural spungs. It was the lack of a gradually sloping bottom that lowered...

Rhodehamel (1970), the hydrologist who estimated the 17-trillion-gallon figure for the Cohansey Aquifer, stated that 2-percent of the Pine Barrens surface was covered by intermittent pools (spungs). Unlike classic vernal pools, where surface runoff is perched by an impervious bottom, spungs are...

OK, Now I have no choice but to agree with you! My daughter is enrolled as a graduate student at Stockton University, and was conducting research into Richland Village dynamics. She noted that our property is listed on Google Maps as a culinary destination, identified as "dead body found."...

Here are three early Richland plot plans showing railroads. Plan of Richland, Railroad Centre for Cumberland Colony Enterprise, Atlantic Co., N.J. Surveyed by Fowler & Lummis, Civil Engineers, Philada, PA, 1884. Map of the Town of Richland, New Jersey, F. Bourquin, 31 S. 6th St, Philad'a...

Cool. I'd love to hear more about the "frog war" that occurred where the two lines crossed, only one of three in the State that I know of. The legend is that when the Philadelphia & Seashore Railway line was first run in 1890 (today's Cape May Branch), its operators were planning to sneak in a...

Now if it's a genuine Pineland's crop circle you fancy, that world-famous feature was through the woods right outside my front door: http://www.timesunion.com/news/slideshow/Pi-Day-World-s-most-famous-circles-40484/photo-2619464.php

The technical term is "scratch circles." A colleague wrote about them. The abstract says, "The present paper provides a report on the formation of scratch circles on the drift sands during the deposition and deflation phases of sand dune formation. Observations were carried out on dune fields in...

Is it a plant bulb?

Ironstone comes in a wide variety of shapes and sizes (see below links) https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/about-difference-in-nj-stones.5534/#post-64755 https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/bog-iron-can-you-dig-it-or-what-is-the-marl-of-the-story.7299/#post-86086...

I am under the impression that the West Jersey & Atlantic Rail Road was all double-tracked. The ultimate Richland railroad sensory experience was when east- and westbound WJARR trains crossed the trestle at the same time that north- and southbound Cape May Branch trains passed beneath them. W...