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SP27 Water Table in the Inland Bays Watershed, Delaware

This poster shows three different map views of the water table as well as information about how the maps were made, how the depth to water table changes with seasons and climate, and how the water...

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B10 Salinity of the Delaware Estuary

The purpose of this investigation was to obtain data on and study the factors affecting the salinity of the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pa., to the Appoquinimink River, Del. The general chemical...

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B12 Columbia (Pleistocene) Sediments of Delaware

The Columbia deposits of Delaware form a sheet of sand with a maximum thickness of approximately 150 feet which covers most of the Coastal Plain portion of the State. The dispersal pattern, deduced...

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OFR37 Summary Report: The Coastal Storm of December 10-14, 1992, Delaware and...

On December 10, a low pressure system moved rapidly north-northwest from eastern North Carolina and Virginia, up the Chesapeake Bay to a position just west of Chestertown in Kent County, Maryland by...

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RI36 History of Oil and Gas Exploration in the Mid-Atlantic Region and...

There has been sporadic exploration for oil and gas in the Mid-Atlantic region for over 50 years. Non-commercial deposits of oil and gas have recently been discovered in the sedimentary rock section of...

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RI68 Estimation of the Water Table for the Inland Bays Watershed, Delaware

A geographic information system-based study was used to estimate the elevation of the water table in the Inland Bays watershed of Sussex County, Delaware, under dry, normal, and wet conditions....

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RI70 Thickness and Transmissivity of the Unconfined Aquifer of Eastern Sussex...

The unconfined portion of the Columbia aquifer is a key hydrologic unit in Delaware, supplying water to many agricultural, domestic, industrial, public, and irrigation wells. The aquifer is recharged...

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MS3 Geologic Cross-Section of Delaware River, Red Lion Creek to Killcohook...

Test borings made in preparation for construction of a power line across the 2.3 miles wide Delaware River provided an opportunity to investigate the geology beneath the river which is otherwise...

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Temporal Imaging of the Intertidal Critical Zone

Project Status:  Active July 1, 2010We are developing an innovative ground-based imaging system to collect multi-spectral imagery (visible, near and thermal infrared bands) at time-scales...

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Delaware Estuary Science and Environmental Summit, January 25-28, 2015 at...

February 3, 2015John A. Callahan and Thomas E. McKenna of Delaware Geological Survey (DGS) attended the Delaware Estuary Science and Environmental Summit, January 25-28, 2015 at Cape May, NJ, sponsored...

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