STRATIGRAPHIC POLLEN ANALYSIS OF ELEVEN CORES NEAR EDGEWOOD, MARYLAND

Summary

Several cores were extracted from sediments of the peninsula between the Bush and

Gunpowder Rivers near Edgewood Maryland. Samples were extracted at irregular intervals from

eleven of these cores and submitted for environmental pollen analysis in order to assist in

determining ages for strata underlying the peninsula. Accurate determination of biostratigraphic

ages are difficult, at best, and require extensive, close-interval sampling to determine changes in

frequency and the appearance and disappearance of pollen types from the record. The samples

extracted from these cores represent intervals no closer than eleven feet apart, and generally

dozens to nearly a hundred feet apart. Given the irregular and widespread samples, only coarse

interpretations of the sediments below the peninsular are possible

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