Tripping from the Fall Line: Field Excursions for the GSA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, 2015David K. Brezinski, Jeffrey P. Halka, Richard A. Ortt Jr. "Emanating from the Fall Line city of Baltimore, site of the 2015 GSA Annual Meeting, these trips reflect the diversity of geological features in the mid-Atlantic region including the Piedmont, Appalachian Mountains, and Coastal Plain, and the importance of geology on the development and construction of the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., metropolitan area"-- |
Contents
Accretion of | 35 |
Correlations and event stratigraphy | 61 |
Late Devonian climatic change and resultant glacigenic facies of western Maryland | 85 |
Coastal Plain and Geomorphology | 109 |
Cenozoic stratigraphy and structure of the Chesapeake Bay region | 171 |
Miocene stratigraphy and paleoenvironments of the Calvert Cliffs Maryland | 231 |
Applying palynology | 281 |
Holocene barrierisland geology and morphodynamics of the Maryland and Virginia | 309 |
Environmental and Human Intersection with Geology | 425 |
A field guide for | 485 |
The lost springs of Washington D C late Tertiary | 499 |
Building stones of Baltimore the Monumental City | 519 |
Building stones of the National Mall | 543 |
Introduction and update for the Geology of the Gettysburg battlefield | 573 |
Common terms and phrases
America Abstracts Aquia Assateague Island Atlantic Baltimore barrier islands basal basin Beach bedrock Blue Ridge Bosbyshell Brezinski Calvert Beach Calvert Cliffs carbonate Cedar Island central Appalachian Chesapeake Bay Chincoteague Choptank Formation clasts clay Coastal Plain Conoy County Creek deposits Devonian diamictite dolomite east ebb-tidal delta erosion facies Fall Line fault field trip Figure Geological Society Gneiss Governor Run granite gravel karst Kidwell limestone Little Cove Point located marble marsh Maryland Marys Formation metamorphism Miocene Neoproterozoic Ordovician outcrop Park Parramore Island Pennsylvania Piedmont Point Member Potomac River Powars quarry rates region rocks sand sandstone sea-level sediment sequence Shattuck Shattuck-Zone shell bed shoreline silt silty sinkhole Society of America southern Spring stone Stop storm strata stratigraphic surface tectonic terrace thick tidal inlet tion Turn left Turn right U.S. Geological Survey unconformity units upper Valley Virginia barrier islands Wachapreague Wachapreague Inlet Wallops Island Zone