This creek bottom was heavily scoured by summer flooding in 2001. Forests and soil on lower terraces were washed away, now leaving unvegetated cobble in many reaches. Uphill is mixed mesophytic forest.;Young alluvial terrace with sandy deposits on top of cobble. Narrow forest community along creek dominated by tulip poplar and beech with blue beech and lousewort abundant in their strata. There is a levee between the plot and the creek and a bank above the plot with an older terrace above.
Representativeness
ELU 1333 (gorge slope bottom on shale); tributary floodplain forest occurring on discontinuous narrow terraces along the creek.