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Digital Watershed and Bay Boundaries for Rehoboth Bay, Indian River Bay, and...
Digital watershed and bay polygons for use in geographic information systems were created for Rehoboth Bay, Indian River, and Indian River Bay in southeastern Delaware. Polygons were created using a...
View ArticleA Summary of the Geologic History of Delaware
The State of Delaware is located within two physiographic provinces, the Appalachian Piedmont and the Atlantic Coastal Plain. The Fall Zone divides these two provinces and essentially runs parallel to...
View ArticleWhat are GeoAdventures?
GeoAdventures are designed to allow the reader to learn about a particular geologic point of interest in Delaware’s Piedmont province and then take a short field trip to that area. Want to know more...
View ArticleCoastal Plain Rock Units (Stratigraphic Chart)
The geology of Delaware includes parts of two geologic provinces: the Appalachian Piedmont Province and the Atlantic Coastal Plain Province. The Piedmont occurs in the hilly northernmost part of the...
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SP24 Selected Geomorphic Features of Delaware
The shaded relief image on the left was created using 30-meter resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). The DEMs were developed by John Mackenzie, University of Delaware College of Agriculture and...
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RI58 The Pliocene and Quaternary Deposits of Delaware: Palynology, Ages, and...
The surficial Pliocene and Quaternary sedimentary deposits of the Atlantic Coastal Plain of Delaware comprise several formal and informal stratigraphic units. Their ages and the paleoenvironments they...
View ArticleGeologic History of the Delaware Piedmont
The Delaware Piedmont is but a small part of the Appalachian Mountain system that extends from Georgia to Newfoundland. This mountain system is the result of tectonic activity that took place during...
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GM16 Geologic Map of the Fairmount and Rehoboth Beach Quadrangles, Delaware
The geologic history of the surficial units of the Fairmount and Rehoboth Beach quadrangles is that of deposition of the Beaverdam Formation and its subsequent modification by erosion and deposition...
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DGS Geologic Map No. 16 (Fairmont Rehoboth Beach Quadrangles) Dataset
This vector data set contains the rock unit polygons for the surficial geology in the Delaware Coastal Plain covered by DGS Geologic Map No. 16 (Fairmount and Rehoboth Beach quadrangles). The geologic...
View ArticleWilliam “Sandy” Schenck participated in the Manhattan Prong Workshop...
September 15, 2014The Rocks of the Manhattan Prong show similar tectonic, metamorphic, sedimentary, geomorphic, and igneous features to our own rocks here in northern Delaware and southeastern...
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