Maryland’s Geology

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Maryland has been known as a oeAmerica in miniature, a because the state embodies a variety of our nation’s landscape features. From sandy beaches on the Atlantic Ocean, across flat fields of the Coastal Plain on the Eastern Shore, to the rolling hills and tumbling rivers of the state’s central counties, and concluding with the mountainous terrain of Western Maryland, the Free State’s diverse scenery is as a result of the eons of geological activity. Written for the interested layman or student with no specialized training, this book explains the basics of geological processes, and then shows how they worked to create Maryland’s beautiful and fascinating landforms. A wealth of diagrams and maps clarify further a text peppered with enlightening analogies. Whether the discussion concerns the several types of weathering, for example, or the basic kinds of faults or events of plate tectonics, the text and figures combine to lend a hand the reader take note how long-ago events produced what we see today. The writer not only makes a speciality of the real landforms and their underlying geology, but also describes the patterns of settlement, farming, mining, manufacturing, and transportation that are all results of the state’s unique underlying structures.

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