Day at the Beach
The geologic deposit on which UMF is constructed.
What is Pmn, marine nearshore deposits?
The specific compass direction of nearly all ice flow indicators in this map area.
What is south-southeast (SSE)?
The ratio describing the map scale.
What is 1:24,000?
The youngest unit on the map.
What is af (artificial fill)?
The oldest geologic deposit in this map area.
What is till (Pt)?
The darker purple color (compared to the lighter pinks) indicates this water depth.
What is deeper water?
These are hilltops with abundant exposures and thin deposits.
What are ruled/striped areas?
The number of cm on the ground represented by measuring 1 cm on the map.
What is 24,000?
The sites where samples were collected for radiocarbon dating.
What is the Sandy River floodplain?
The deposit which flanks nearly all of the Sandy River channel.
What is Ha, Holocene alluvium?
The grain sizes typically associated with the Presumpscot Formation (Pp).
What are silt and clay?
The special glacial feature located between the fairgrounds and the Sandy River.
What is an esker crest?
The length of the esker crest at the north end of the map (in meters).
What is 700 meters?
The epoch associated with the Presumpscot Formation.
What is the Pleistocene?
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Who is Fleetwood Mac?
The trend of sea-level associated with Pmrs.
What is regressive or falling?
The youngest glacial deposit in the Temple Stream valley.
What is Pg, glacial-fluvial sand and gravel?
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What is a zoom tuxedo?
The unit you would expect to find if you cored through the marine unit (Pmn) found on campus.
What is till (Pt)?
The Farmington fairground is developed directly on one of these: fluvial, coastal, or glacial deposits.
What are fluvial deposits?
The unit that represents the beach and shallow water deposits in what would have been the estuary of the Sandy River.
What is Pmn (marine nearshore)?
The number and direction of ice flows measured on an outcrop just north of Hannafords.
What are two directions, south-southeast and east?
The length of the channel incised into the stream terrace at the fairgrounds, in kilometers.
What is 1.25 km?
The youngest Pleistocene deposit on this map.
What are unidifferentiated ice-contact deposits (Pgi)?
The formation name of the material underlying the impounded area of Temple Stream.
What is the Presumpscot Formation?