Upland Deposits (Eastern Shore) (MDQu;5)

Upland Deposits (Eastern Shore)

Gravel, sand, silt, and clay. Mostly cross-bedded, poorly sorted, medium- to coarse-grained white to red sand and gravel; boulders near base; minor pink and yellow silts and clays; (Wicomico Formation of earlier reports); thickness 0 to 90 feet, locally thicker in paleochannels.

State	Maryland
Name	Upland Deposits (Eastern Shore)
Geologic age	Quaternary
Lithologic constituents	Major Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Gravel Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Sand Minor Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Clay Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Silt
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	Caroline - Cecil - Kent - Queen Anne's - Talbot

Upland Deposits (Eastern Shore)

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/.