Geologic History of the Delaware Coastal Plain
In Delaware, the oldest unit of the Atlantic Coastal Plain is the Potomac Formation. Sediment eroded from the Appalachian Mountains was deposited in rivers and swamps in a tropical climate along the...
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B10 Salinity of the Delaware Estuary
The purpose of this investigation was to obtain data on and study the factors affecting the salinity of the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pa., to the Appoquinimink River, Del. The general chemical...
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GM16 Geologic Map of the Fairmount and Rehoboth Beach Quadrangles, Delaware
The geologic history of the surficial units of the Fairmount and Rehoboth Beach quadrangles is that of deposition of the Beaverdam Formation and its subsequent modification by erosion and deposition...
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DGS Geologic Map No. 16 (Fairmont Rehoboth Beach Quadrangles) Dataset
This vector data set contains the rock unit polygons for the surficial geology in the Delaware Coastal Plain covered by DGS Geologic Map No. 16 (Fairmount and Rehoboth Beach quadrangles). The geologic...
View ArticleGauging sea-level rise in marshes
August 22, 2012Gauging sea-level rise in marshesGlobal sea-level rise and sinking land are combining to cause water levels near Bowers Beach, Del., to climb at a rate faster than anywhere else on the...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy Q&A - Experts at UD aid state, National Weather Service...
November 1, 20124:37 p.m., Oct. 31, 2012--The Office of the State Climatologist and the Delaware Geological Survey (DGS), both based at the University of Delaware, provided the Delaware Emergency...
View ArticleLosing ground - Can marshes keep pace with the rising tide?
January 3, 2013Marshes reduce storm flooding, filter contaminants out of water and provide habitat for birds, fish and other wildlife. However, these environmentally critical areas have decreased in...
View ArticleCritical tide monitors face full shutdown
March 21, 2013Caught in a federal-state funding standoff that one Delaware official said could put lives at risk, widely used public tide and weather monitors at more than 10 Delaware River and Bay...
View ArticleProtecting tidal wetlands - UD scientists study tidal flow, sediment movement...
April 17, 2013Three University of Delaware scientists are studying tidal water flow and sediment movement in a Kent County salt marsh to better understand changes to the marsh ecosystem due to a rising...
View ArticleRegional partners to focus on sea-level rise in Delaware
June 18, 2014A new partnership of scientists and federal officials from Delaware to Virginia will take a regional look at sea-level rise and how best to prepare for the impacts, including shoreline...
View ArticleDelaware Estuary Science and Environmental Summit, January 25-28, 2015 at...
February 3, 2015John A. Callahan and Thomas E. McKenna of Delaware Geological Survey (DGS) attended the Delaware Estuary Science and Environmental Summit, January 25-28, 2015 at Cape May, NJ, sponsored...
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Amino Acid Racemization Data Base (AARDB)
Open-File Report 50 presents and describes a database of geochronological information for coastal deposits of the US Atlantic and Pacific coasts, as well as for sites from the Pacific coast of South...
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OFR50 Database of Quaternary Coastal Geochronologic Information for the...
Open-File Report 50 presents and describes a database of geochronological information for coastal deposits of the US Atlantic and Pacific coasts, as well as for sites from the Pacific coast of South...
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