Enigmas On the Eastern Shore

The US Commonwealth of Virginia occupies a vast extent on the Atlantic coastal plain, but also claims a detached extent across the Chesapeake Bay from the mainland, on the southern extent of the DelMarva Peninsula. The land holds the colloquial name [The Eastern Shore ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Shore_of_Virginia). Over 700 "Carolina bays" exist along the Eastern Shore's elevated spine. Although these landforms express a very shallow basin they are clearly evident in this HRTM image. The spatial footprint of these ovoid basins is often 1,500 m or more on the main axis. While most are located on the elevated portion of the peninsula, some on the north east side exhibit being inundated by the waters of the Chesapeake bay, offering but a ghostly trace of their robustly-repeatable and directionally aligned shape seen in a wide scale of sizes. The digital elevation-to-color table cycles every 10 meters, giving such low relief structures an opportunity to express their elegant and enigmatic details. The accompanying color index provides a relative elevation, modulo 10 m, with sea level at 0 m. The image was generated in Global Mapper using USGS LiDAR elevation data sampled down to a 1.2 m resolution.