State | Delaware |
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Name | Potomac Formation |
Geologic age | Cretaceous |
Lithologic constituents | Major
Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Clay
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Sand
Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Silt
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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. |
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Counties | New Castle |