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Miscellaneous Investigations Series I-1420 (NI-18)

Prepared in cooperation with the College of William and Mary

Quaternary Geologic Map of the Hatteras 4° x 6° Quadrangle, United States

State compilations by Gerald H. Johnson and Pamela C. Peebles

Edited and integrated by Gerald M. Richmond, David S Fullerton, and David L. Weide

Digital edition by Charles A. Bush

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This map is part of the Quaternary Geologic Atlas of the United States (I-1420). It was first published as a printed edition in 1986. The geologic data have now been captured digitally and are presented here along with images of the printed map sheet and component parts as PDF files. The Quaternary Geologic Map of the Hatteras 4° x 6° Quadrangle was mapped as part of the Quaternary Geologic Atlas of the United States. The atlas was begun as an effort to depict the areal distribution of surficial geologic deposits and other materials that accumulated or formed during the past 2+ million years, the period that includes all activities of the human species. These materials are at the surface of the Earth. They make up the "ground" on which we walk, the "dirt" in which we dig foundations, and the "soil" in which we grow crops. Most of our human activity is related in one way or another to these surface materials that are referred to collectively by many geologists as regolith, the mantle of fragmental and generally unconsolidated material that overlies the bedrock foundation of the continent. The maps were compiled at 1:1,000,000 scale.

Digital Edition History

First posted March 21, 2012

For additional information contact:

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Environmental Change Science Center

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Denver, CO 80225

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Suggested citation:

Johnson, G.H., and Peebles, P.C., compilers; Richmond, G.M., Fullerton, D.S., Weide, D.L., and Bush, C.A., eds., 1986, Quaternary geologic map of the Hatteras 4° x 6° quadrangle, United States: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1420 (NI-18), scale 1:1,000,000. Digital edition by Bush, C.A., 2011.


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