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Publication Type:
Geologic MapPublication Date:
Jan 2000Abstract:
This is a map of the crystalline bedrock units in the Piedmont of Delaware and adjacent Pennsylvania. The southern boundary of the mapped area is the updip limit of the Potomac Formation (Woodruff and Thompson, 1972, 1975). Soil, regolith, and surficial deposits of Quaternary age are not shown.
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Delaware Geological Survey
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Newark, DE 19716
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Additional Notes
Map Scale 1:36,000.
Centroid: 39.73, -75.60
This page tagged with:
- Appalachian Piedmont
- arc affinity
- Arden Granite
- Ardentown Granitic Suite
- Baltimore Gneiss
- Barley Mill Gneiss
- bedrock
- Brandywine Blue Gneiss
- Bringhurst Gabbro
- Christianstead Gneiss
- Cockeysville Marble
- Cretaceous Period
- cross-sections
- Faulkland Gneiss
- Iron Hill Gabbro
- mapping
- Metapyroxenite and metagabbro (undifferentiated)
- Mill Creek Metagabbro
- New Castle County
- Newark
- Pegmatite
- Pennsylvanian Period
- Permian Period
- Rockford Park Gneiss
- rocks
- Serpentinite
- Setters Formation
- Upper Cretaceous
- wetlands
- Wilmington
- Wilmington Complex
- Windy Hills Gneiss
- Wissahickon Formation
- Carboniferous Period
- Jurassic Period
- Lower Cretaceous
- Mississippian Period
- Devonian Period
- Triassic Period
- Silurian Period
- Ordovician Period
- Cambrian Period
- Mesozoic Era
- Paleozoic Era
- Precambrian
