Surficial Geology of the Lopez 7.5-Minute Quadrangle, Sullivan, Wyoming, Luzerne Counties, Pennsylvania

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Originator:
Dr. Duane D. Braun - Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
Publication_Date: March 2007
Title:
Surficial Geology of the Lopez 7.5-Minute Quadrangle, Sullivan, Wyoming, Luzerne Counties, Pennsylvania
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Suggested Citation: Braun, D. D., 2007, Surficial Geology of the Lopez 7.5-Minute Quadrangle, Sullivan, Wyoming, and Luzerne Counties, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 4th series, Open-File Report OFSM 07-02.0, 16p., Portable Document Format (PDF).
Online_Linkage: <http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/>
Description:
Abstract:
The Lopez 1:24,000-scale detailed reconnaissance surficial geology map (map of unconsolidated materials overlying consolidated bedrock) was produced in four phases. In the first phase, a preliminary surficial deposit map was made using soil mapping (Grubb, 1986), surficial deposit mapping (Denny and Lyford, 1963), bedrock mapping (Sherwood and Platt, 1880; Sevon, 1977), and landform analysis using the 1:24,000-scale topographic map and aerial photographs. In the second phase, the preliminary surficial deposit map was verified and/or corrected during twenty person-days or so of field work. Two undergraduate geologic field assistants, Stephanie Jones and Christopher Guise, were responsible for much of the field mapping. Christopher Guise was responsible for most of southern two-thirds of the map that lies south of Loyalsock Creek, an area largely occupied by State Gamelands. Stephanie Jones was responsible for most of the northern one-third of the map, the area lying north of Loyalsock Creek. Duane Braun, surficial geology mapper, spot checked the work of the field assistants across the entire map and directly mapped the eastern end of the Bernice Coal Basin and the southwestern corner of the map within the Painter Den hunting club lands. In the third phase, the field verified/corrected preliminary surficial geology map was finalized, drafted onto three mylar overlays (contacts, isochores, and labels - rock outcrops), and had a text added by Duane Braun. In the fourth phase, the mylar overlays were scanned, digitized, and produced in Adobe PDF and ArcGIS formats by Pennsylvania Geologic Survey personnel.

The distribution and type of units on the preliminary surficial geology map is primarily a combined parent material and topographic position classification of the soil survey map units. The classification of all soil series by surficial deposit map unit is given in Table 1. Many soil series are common to more than one surficial deposit type. The landform of a specific area is used to decide which surficial deposit type the soil series is most likely related to at that site on the preliminary surficial geology map. The soil series boundaries are manually transferred from the 1:20,000-scale soil survey maps to the 1:24,000-scale topographic map. During the field verification and correction phase many contacts are moved to reflect conditions directly observed in the field. Positions of the boundary lines are estimated by eye using natural and human features that are identifiable on both the soil survey aerial photographs and the topographic map. At some sites a GPS unit was used to better local a contact or feature. Expectable line location error is on the order of 50 to 100 feet on the ground where there are distinct features to guide line placement. Where boundaries cross large featureless areas of forest, line placement error is in the range of 100 feet and occasionally as much as 200 feet on the ground.

Purpose:
For use as primary or supplementary data in mapping and/or decision making..
Supplemental_Information:
This data set has been visually inspected and has not undergone external peer review. This product does not meet Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey publication standards. Mapping is as complete as the time frame allowed. Further research and revision is always possible and encouraged.
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Calendar_Date: March 2007
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Theme:
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Theme_Keyword: Surficial Geology
Theme_Keyword: Geology
Theme_Keyword: Till
Theme_Keyword: Wisconsinan
Theme_Keyword: Glacial
Theme_Keyword: Coal Breaker Waste Dump
Theme_Keyword: fill
Theme_Keyword: reclaimed coal strip mine
Theme_Keyword: surface mine for coal
Theme_Keyword: rock quarry pit
Theme_Keyword: lake
Theme_Keyword: Alluvium
Theme_Keyword: Alluvial Terrace
Theme_Keyword: Allivial Fan
Theme_Keyword: Peat
Theme_Keyword: Wetland
Theme_Keyword: Wisconsinan Ice-Contact Stratified Drift
Theme_Keyword: Wisconsinan Till
Theme_Keyword: Wisconsinan Bouldery Till
Theme_Keyword: Wisconsinan Till Moraine
Theme_Keyword: Sandstone and Shale Bedrock
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Place_Keyword: Lopez
Place_Keyword: Sullivan County
Place_Keyword: Wyoming County
Place_Keyword: Luzerne County
Place_Keyword: Pennsylvania
Access_Constraints: None.
Use_Constraints:
Material from this report may be published if credit is given to the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey, 3240 Schoolhouse Road, Middletown, PA 17057-3534 is granted.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: DCNR - Bur of Topographic and Geologic Survey
Contact_Person: Thomas G. Whitfield
Contact_Position: Senior Geologic Scientist
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Address: 3240 Schoolhouse Road
City: Middletown
State_or_Province: PA
Postal_Code: 17057
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 717-702-2017
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Surficial geology - Dr. Duane D. Braun, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.
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This data set has been visually inspected and has not undergone external peer review. This product does not meet Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey publication standards. Mapping is as complete as the time frame allowed. Further research and revision is always possible and encouraged.
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Braun, D. D., 2006a, Deglaciation of the Appalachian Plateau, northeastern Pennsylvania-till shadows, till knobs forming "beaded valleys": Revisiting systematic stagnation-zone retreat: in: P. J. Fleisher, P. L. K. Knuepfer and D. R. Butler , eds., Ice Sheet Geomorphology - Past and Present Processes and Landforms; Journal of Geomorphology, Vol. 75, p. 248-265
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Braun, D. D., 2006b, Quaternary History of the Ricketts Glen, Eagles Mere, and World's End Region: in, Inners, J. D. and Fleeger, G. M., eds., The Haystacks, "Ricketts Folly," and The End of The World: Guidebook for the 71st Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, p.1-12.
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Braun, D. D., 2004a, Quaternary History of the Tunkhannock - Great Bend Region: in Braun, D. D., ed., Late Wisconsinan Deglaciation of the Great Bend - Tunkhannock Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Guidebook for the 67th Annual Reunion of the Friends of the Pleistocene, p. 1-7.
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Braun, D. D., 2004b, The glaciation of Pennsylvania, USA: in Ehlers J. and Gibbard, P. L., eds., Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology, Part II: North America: Elsevier, B. P., p.237-243 and map.
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Braun, D. D., 2002, Quaternary history of the Tunkhannock-Great Bend region: in, Inners, J. D. and Fleeger, G. M., eds., From Tunkhannock to Starrucca: Bluestone, glacial lakes, and great bridges in the "Endless Mountains" of northeastern Pennsylvania: Guidebook for the 67th Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, p.32-38.
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Braun, D. D., 1997, Physiography and Quaternary of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Region: in Inners, J. D., editor, Geology of the Wyoming-Lackawanna Valley: Guidebook, 62nd Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, p. 1-15.
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Braun, D. D., 1994, Late Wisconsinan to pre-Illinoian (G?) glacial events in eastern Pennsylvania: in Braun, D. D., editor, Late Wisconsinan to Pre-Illinoian (G?) glacial and periglacial events in eastern Pennsylvania: Guidebook, 57th Field Conference of the Friends of the Pleistocene (Northeastern Section), U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-434. p. 1-21.
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Braun, D. D., 1989, Glacial and periglacial erosion of the Appalachians: in Gardner, T. W. and Sevon, W. D., editors, Appalachian geomorphology, Geomorphology, v. 2, no. 1-3, p. 233-258.
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Dalton, T. S., Carson, B., and Meltzer, A. S., 1997, Holocene stratigraphy of Lake Lacawac: Establishment of a framework for paleoecological and paleoclimatic studies: NEGSA, abs. with prog., p.39
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Denny, C. S. and Lyford, W. H., 1963, Surficial geology and soils of the Elmira-Williamsport region, New York and Pennsylvania: U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 379, 60 p.
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Source_Contribution:
Grubb, R. G., 1986, Soil survey of Bradford and Sullivan Counties, Pennsylvania: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 124 p. and 93 maps.
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Lohman, S. W., 1939, Ground Water in North Central Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania. Geological Survey, 4th Series, Bulletin W6, 219 p.
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MacClintock, Paul, and Apfel, E. T., 1944, Correlation of the drifts of the Salamanca re-entrant, New York: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 55, p. 1143-1164.
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Ridge, J. C., 2003, The Last Deglaciation Of The Northeastern United States: A Combined Varve, Paleomagnetic, and Calibrated 14C Chronology: in Cremeens and Hart, J. P., eds., Geoarechaeology of Landscapes in the Glaciated Northeast, New York State Museum Bulletin 497, pl 15-45.
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Sevon, W. D., 1977, Compilation of the Lopez quadrangle bedrock geology: in Berg, T. M. and Dodge, C. M., Atlas of preliminary geologic quadrangle maps of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 4th series, map 61, p. 348.
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Sherwood, A and Platt, F, 1880, The geology of Sullivan and Lycoming Counties: Pennsylvania Second Geological Survey, Report of Progress GG, 268 p.
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Braun, D. D., 2007, Surficial geology of the Laporte 7.5-minute quadrangle, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 4th series, Open-File Report OFSM 07-03.0, 17 p., Portable Document Format (PDF).
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The Lopez 1:24,000-scale detailed reconnaissance surficial geology map (map of unconsolidated materials overlying consolidated bedrock) was produced in four phases. In the first phase, a preliminary surficial deposit map was made using soil mapping (Grubb, 1986), surficial deposit mapping (Denny and Lyford, 1963), bedrock mapping (Sherwood and Platt, 1880; Sevon, 1977), and landform analysis using the 1:24,000-scale topographic map and aerial photographs. In the second phase, the preliminary surficial deposit map was verified and/or corrected during twenty person-days or so of field work. Two undergraduate geologic field assistants, Stephanie Jones and Christopher Guise, were responsible for much of the field mapping. Christopher Guise was responsible for most of southern two-thirds of the map that lies south of Loyalsock Creek, an area largely occupied by State Gamelands. Stephanie Jones was responsible for most of the northern one-third of the map, the area lying north of Loyalsock Creek. Duane Braun, surficial geology mapper, spot checked the work of the field assistants across the entire map and directly mapped the eastern end of the Bernice Coal Basin and the southwestern corner of the map within the Painter Den hunting club lands. In the third phase, the field verified/corrected preliminary surficial geology map was finalized, drafted onto three mylar overlays (contacts, isochores, and labels - rock outcrops), and had a text added by Duane Braun. In the fourth phase, the mylar overlays were scanned, digitized, and produced in Adobe PDF and ArcGIS formats by Pennsylvania Geologic Survey personnel.
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An isochore is the thickness of a deposit measured in a vertical borehole or in an excavation with a vertical face. The isochores drawn on the map sometimes pass from one surficial deposit to another, like from till to ice-contact-stratified-drift. That indicates that a 30-foot thickness of till is next to a 30-foot thickness of ice-contact-stratified-drift or ice-contact-stratified-drift with underlying till, both together 30 feet thick.
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City: Middletown
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Country: USA
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