. Maryland geological survey . r as is known, no Lafay-ette occurs on the Eastern Shore. The formation which caps the divideis Wicomico. This does not prove, however, that there was none at theopening of the Sunderland period for it is probable that erosion, whichhad not succeeded in carrying it all away from the Western Shore, hadbeen equally unsuccessful in stripping it entirely from the Eastern there were remnants of it, or of the underlying Miocene, in that region,the Sunderland sea transformed the lower valley of the Susquehannariver into an early Chesapeake Bay. With the advance
. Maryland geological survey . r as is known, no Lafay-ette occurs on the Eastern Shore. The formation which caps the divideis Wicomico. This does not prove, however, that there was none at theopening of the Sunderland period for it is probable that erosion, whichhad not succeeded in carrying it all away from the Western Shore, hadbeen equally unsuccessful in stripping it entirely from the Eastern there were remnants of it, or of the underlying Miocene, in that region,the Sunderland sea transformed the lower valley of the Susquehannariver into an early Chesapeake Bay. With the advance of the Sunderlandsea, the waves continued the destruction of the Lafayette until towardthe close of Sunderland time all traces of it had been carried away fromthe Eastern Shore, Chesapeake Bay disappeared, and nothing remainedto mark the presence of a former land mass over this region except GraysITil] and the high Lafayette-capped hilltops of Elk Neck which rose MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. PLIOCENE AND PLEISTOCENE, PLATE Fig. i.—view showing barrier beach and recent marsh, parker creek, calvert COUNTY.
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