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Lowland Deposits (MDQl;5)

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Geologic Age

Pleistocene (2.58 Ma – 11700 years ago)

Geologic Unit Label

Ql

Gravel, sand, silt, and clay. Medium- to coarse-grained sand and gravel; cobbles and boulders near base; commonly contains reworked Eocene glauconite; varicolored silts and clays; brown to dark gray lignitic silty clay; contains estuarine to marine fauna in some areas (includes in part Pamlico, Talbot, Wicomico and Sunderland Formations of earlier reports); thickness 0 to 150 feet.

— USGS

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