. Maryland geological survey. rn Shore typeof topography is found at Grays Hill in Cecil county at the northernmargin of the Eastern Shore. The Eastern Shore type of topographyconsists of a flat, low and almost featureless plain, while the WesternShore is a rolling upland, attaining four times the elevation of theformer and resembling the topography of the Piedmont Plateau muchmore than that of the typical Eastern Shore. It will be seen later thatthese two topographic types, which at once strike the eye of the pl^siog-rapher as being distinctive features, are in reality not as simple as theyfi
. Maryland geological survey. rn Shore typeof topography is found at Grays Hill in Cecil county at the northernmargin of the Eastern Shore. The Eastern Shore type of topographyconsists of a flat, low and almost featureless plain, while the WesternShore is a rolling upland, attaining four times the elevation of theformer and resembling the topography of the Piedmont Plateau muchmore than that of the typical Eastern Shore. It will be seen later thatthese two topographic types, which at once strike the eye of the pl^siog-rapher as being distinctive features, are in reality not as simple as theyfirst appear, but are built up of a complex system of terraces dissected bydrainage lines. The Coastal Plain of Maryland, with which most of the State of Dela-ware is naturally included, is separated from that of New Jersey by theDelaware river and Delaware Bay, and from that of Virginia by thePotomac river, but these drainage ways afford no barriers to the Coastal MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. PLIOCENE AND PLEISTOCENE, PLATE Fig. i.—view showing section in Sunderland formation, near battle creek, calvert county.
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