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The coastal plain in Delaware is by far the largest province, encompassing all of the state south of the Kirkwood Highway from Newark to Wilmington. [1] The unconsolidated sediments of the coastal plain range in age from Cretaceous to recent. They consist of gravels, sands, silt, and clay, with varying mixtures of all four.
Painted relief map of the Tidewater region on the east coast of the United States in darkest green to one shade lighter green to the west. "Tidewater" is a term for the north Atlantic Plain region of the United States. It is located east of the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line and north of the Deep South.
The Chesapeake Peninsula, more frequently referenced today as the Delmarva Peninsula, or simply Delmarva — called as such in abbreviation of the contemporary U.S. states whose borders overlay it: Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia — is a peninsula on the East Coast of the United States, occupied by the majority of the state of Delaware and parts of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Eastern ...
The Coastal Plain slopes gently seaward from the inland highlands in a series of terraces. The province's average elevation is less than 900 meters above sea level and extends some 50 to 100 kilometers inland from the ocean. [citation needed] The coastal plain is normally wet, including many rivers, marsh, and swampland.
Some cities that lie along the Piedmont–Coastal Plain fall line include the following (from north to south): New Brunswick, New Jersey on the Raritan River; Princeton, New Jersey, on the Millstone River; Trenton, New Jersey, on the Delaware River. [2] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the Schuylkill River. [4] Wilmington, Delaware, on the ...
Like New Castle County, Delaware, Cecil County is crossed by the Fall Line, a geologic division where the rockier highlands of the Piedmont region meet the Atlantic coastal plain, a flat, sandy area that forms the coast. The coastal plain includes the Delmarva Peninsula and hence the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The geology of Delmarva is an ...
USGS map colored by paleogeological areas and demarcating the sections of the U.S. physiographic regions: Laurentian Upland (area 1), Atlantic Plain (2-3), Appalachian Highlands (4-10), Interior Plains (11-13), Interior Highlands (14-15), Rocky Mountain System (16-19), Intermontane Plateaus (20-22), & Pacific Mountain System (23-25) The legend ...
The Delaware Valley, also known as metropolitan Philadelphia. Regions of Delaware include: "Upstate" or "Up North": Delaware Valley, also known as "Above the Canal" (referring to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal) "Slower Lower": Cape Region; Central Kent; Delaware coast