Index map
The wide Coastal Plain belt of Late Cretaceous to Holocene deposits, extending from New Jersey to Texas, is one of the tapestry's outstanding patterns. These sedimentary rocks, deposited mostly in a marine environment, were later uplifted and now tilt seaward; part of them form the broad, submerged Atlantic Continental Shelf. Coastal Plain deposits overlap the older, more distorted, Paleozoic and Precambrian rocks immediately to the north and west. |
