Maryland's Geology

Maryland has been called “America in miniature,” because the state embodies a wide range of our nation’s landscape features. From sandy beaches on the Atlantic Ocean, across flat fields of the Coastal Plain on the Eastern Shore, to the rolling hills and tumbling rivers of the state’s central counties, and concluding with the mountainous terrain of Western Maryland, the Free State’s diverse scenery is a result of eons of geological activity. Written for the interested layman or student with ...