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Record Nr.

UNINA9910707099903321

Autore

Mixon Robert B.

Titolo

Uranium-series dating of mollusks and corals and age of Pleistocene deposits, Chesapeake Bay area, Virginia and Maryland / / by R.B. Mixon, B.J. Szabo, and J.P. Owens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, , 1982

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, E18 pages) : illustrations, maps + + 2 plates

Collana

Geological Survey professional paper ; ; 1067-E

Surface and shallow subsurface geologic studies in the emerged coastal plain of the Middle Atlantic States

Soggetti

Corals, Fossil

Geology - Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)

Geology, Stratigraphic - Pleistocene

Mollusks, Fossil

Radioactive dating

Geology

Geology, Stratigraphic

Pleistocene Geologic Epoch

United States Chesapeake Bay Region

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed October 9, 2014).

"A tentative stratigraphic framework for late Pleistocene deposits of the southern Chesapeake Bay area is used as a basis for evaluating uranium-series dates from fossil corals and mollusks."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages E17-E18).