Atlantic Coastal Plain Sedimentation And Basement Tectonics Southeast Of Washington, D.c.: Fort Washington To Waldorf, Maryland, July 13, 1989 (field Trip Guidebooks)

About The Product Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Field Trip Guidebooks Series . The Atlantic continental margin of the United States consists of a series of active structural basins and arches flanked on the west by Precambrian and Paleozoic metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary source rocks and on the east by the Atlantic Ocean basin (Owens, 1970, 1983). The tectonic history of each basin and arch is unique, and significant variations in unit thickness and mineralogy can be seen even within a single basin. This field focuses attention on the western part of the Salisbury embayment of the northern Atlantic Coastal Plain. Cretaceous through Pleistocene sediments in the field area record the influence of regional and local tectonism. Content: About The ProductPublished by the American Geophysical Union as part of the __Field Trip Guidebooks Series__. The Atlantic continental margin of the United States consists of a series of active structural basins and arches flanked on the west by Precambrian and Paleozoic metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary source rocks and on the east by the Atlantic Ocean basin (Owens, 1970, 1983). The tectonic history of each basin and arch is unique, and significant variations in unit thickness and mineralogy can be seen even within a single basin. This field focuses attention on the western part of the Salisbury embayment of the northern Atlantic Coastal Plain. Cretaceous through Pleistocene sediments in the field area record the influence of regional and local tectonism. Content: Atlantic Coastal Plain Sedimentation and Basement Tectonics Southeast of Washington, D.C.......Page 1 COPY RIGHT......Page 2 Table of Contents......Page 4 INTRODUCTION......Page 5 DESCRIPTION OF FIELD TRIP LOCALITIES......Page 16 REFERENCES......Page 28