Environmental History of Maryland Miocene |
Contents
Brief Stratigraphic Considerations Gernant | 16 |
Vertebrate Biofacies and Paleoenvironments Whitmore | 31 |
Road Log Gibson | 44 |
Common terms and phrases
abundant Anadara Astarte Atlantic Coastal Plain Atrina autochthonous Balanus baleen whale basin biofacies bivalves blue Boston Cliffs Member burrowed Calvert Beach Calvert County Calvert Formation Cape Cerastoderma cetotheres Chesapeake Bay Chesapeake Group Choptank Formation Conoy Corbula elevata Crassatella Cretaceous Cushmanidea Cytheretta Cytheromorpha deposits depth diatomaceous dominated Drumcliff Drumcliff Member dusky Eastern Shore Echinocythereis Ensis environment Eocene facies Fairhaven fauna feet field trip Foraminifera Formation and equivalents fossiliferous Fossils Gernant Gibson Glossus Gyrolithes Henryhowella Hulingsina indicate Jersey Kirkwood Formation Long-beaked porpoise Loxoconcha Lunatia Lyropecten marginal marine Maryland Maryland Miocene Marys Formation Mercenaria middle Miocene Miocene Miocene strata molluscs mottled muddy Muellerina Murrayina Nassarius North Carolina numbers ostracode Paleoecology Panope Plum Point Marls porpoises Primitive baleen whale Pterygocythereis Pungo River rocks sediments shallow water shark Shattuck shell bed Shore of Maryland Spisula stratigraphic substrate terrigenous Thecachampsa Turritella Turritella plebeia turtles unit 22 Virginia well-sorted Yorktown Formation Zone