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Chesapeake Beach MD 1998

Map by ADC - Alexandria Drafting Company. Map covers all of Calvert County.

 

The Chesapeake Bay, which is actually a large estuary (the Gulf of St Lawrence, Lake Pontchartrain, the Puget Sound, the Albemarle Sound, the Long Island Sound, Narragansett Bay, Cook Inlet, Delaware Bay, and San Francisco Bay are all other examples in the US) - the drowned lower half of the Susquehenna River valley, which gradually flooded as the most recent ice age began to wane, the earth warmed, and sea levels rose.

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