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| | Fact Sheet 102-98 - The Chesapeake Bay: Geologic Product of Rising Sea Level (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The Chesapeake Bay is the drowned, ancestral valley of the Susquehanna River; the bay is fed by runoff from tributaries of the Potomac, Patuxent, Rappahannock, and James Rivers (fig. |
 | | The Chesapeake Bay is the drowned ancestral valley of the Susquehanna River. |
 | | In the Chesapeake Bay, the USGS is conducting research to reconstruct the detailed pattern of relative sea-level change during the last 6,000 to 8,000 years. |
| pubs.usgs.gov /factsheet/fs102-98 (1981 words) |
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