Magothy Formation (MDKm;5)

Magothy Formation

Loose, white, cross-bedded, "sugary", lignitic sands and dark gray, laminated silty clays; white to orange-brown, iron-stained, subrounded quartzose gravels in western Anne Arundel County; absent in outcrop southwest of Patuxent River; thickness 0 to 60 feet.

State	Maryland
Name	Magothy Formation
Geologic age	Cretaceous
Lithologic constituents	Major Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > SandLoose, white, cross-bedded, "sugary", lignitic sands Minor Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Claydark gray, laminated silty clays Incidental Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Gravelwhite to orange-brown, iron-stained, subrounded quartzose gravels in western Anne Arundel County
References	Cleaves, E.T., Edwards, J., Jr., and Glaser, J.D., 1968, Geologic Map of Maryland: Maryland Geological Survey, Baltimore, Maryland, scale 1:250,000. In 1995 the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey digitized the geologic map of Maryland from the 1968 paper map (Reference MD001). Information about products from the Maryland Geological Survey can be found at http://www.mgs.md.gov/.
NGMDB product	NGMDB product page for 16548
Counties	Anne Arundel - Cecil - Kent

Magothy Formation

Cleaves, E.T., Edwards, J., Jr., and Glaser, J.D., 1968, Geologic Map of Maryland: Maryland Geological Survey, Baltimore, Maryland, scale 1:250,000.

In 1995 the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey digitized the geologic map of Maryland from the 1968 paper map (Reference MD001). Information about products from the Maryland Geological Survey can be found at http://www.mgs.md.gov/.