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Development of Quaternary Stratigraphy in Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Richard Foster Flint
Richard Foster Flint*
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Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 USA
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Abstract

Quaternary stratigraphy in the northeastern region has developed slowly because researchers have been few and because quartzose bedrock and extensive forest have inhibited field study. The earliest stratigraphic studies antedated 1850, but in most parts of the region the stratigraphic units still recognized today were identified in the present century. Ancient and modern sequences are generalized and are shown in charts.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , September 1976 , pp. 395 - 409
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University of Washington

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