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Columbia Formation

Columbia Formation - Yellow and reddish brown quartz sand with gravel and little clay
StateDelaware
NameColumbia Formation
Geologic agePleistocene
CommentsThis unit was described on the 1966 state map, but was represented by a pattern rather than a specific color and map symbol. Thus, no original map label is recorded and map symbol1 was made up for this digital product.
Primary rock typesand
Secondary rock typegravel
Other rock typesclay or mud
Lithologic constituents
Major
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Sand
Minor
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Gravel
Incidental
Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Clay
Map references
Spoljaric, Nenad and Jordan, Robert R., 1966, Generalized Geologic Map of Delaware, State of Delaware, Delaware Geological Survey, scale ca. 1:300,000.
Unit references
Spoljaric, Nenad and Jordan, Robert R., 1966, Generalized Geologic Map of Delaware, State of Delaware, Delaware Geological Survey, scale ca. 1:300,000.

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