Potomac Formation

Variegated silts and clays with beds of quartz sand.
State Delaware
Name Potomac Formation
Geologic age Cretaceous
Lithologic constituents
Major
Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Clay
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Sand
Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Silt
Comments Lower Cretaceous, may be overlain locally by the Pleistocene Columbia Formation
References

Spoljaric, Nenad and Jordan, Robert R., 1966, Generalized Geologic Map of Delaware SP4, State of Delaware, Delaware Geological Survey, scale ca. 1:300,000. Digitized by the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey in the mid 1990's.

NGMDB product
Counties New Castle