Quaternary Rocks in North America Today

Explore: the Quaternary in North America Alberta, CanadaBritish Columbia, CanadaManitoba, CanadaNew Brunswick, CanadaNewfoundland and Labrador, CanadaNorthwest Territories, CanadaNova Scotia, CanadaNunavut, CanadaOntario, CanadaPrince Edward Island, CanadaQuebec, CanadaSaskatchewan, CanadaYukon Territory, CanadaNortheast region, MexicoNorthwest region, MexicoSoutheast region, MexicoSouthwest region, MexicoAlabama, USAlaska, USArizona, USArkansas, USCalifornia, USColorado, USConnecticut, USDelaware, USFlorida, USGeorgia, USHawaii, USIdaho, USIllinois, USIndiana, USIowa, USKansas, USKentucky, USLouisiana, USMaine, USMaryland, USMassachusetts, USMichigan, USMinnesota, USMississippi, USMissouri, USMontana, USNebraska, USNevada, USNew Hampshire, USNew Jersey, USNew Mexico, USNew York, USNorth Carolina, USNorth Dakota, USOhio, USOklahoma, USOregon, USPennsylvania, USRhode Island, USSouth Carolina, USSouth Dakota, USTennessee, USTexas, USUtah, USVermont, USVirginia, USWashington, USWest Virginia, USWisconsin, USWyoming, US

or world paleogeography of the Select a period Quaternary Tertiary Cretaceous Jurassic Triassic Permian Carboniferous Devonian Silurian Ordovician Cambrian Precambrian

While much of the North American continent is covered with a thin layer of Quaternary material, the areas shown on the map include large deposits found in the western U.S., the Mississippi Delta, and along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts. Also included on this map are areas of recent volcanism including the Cascade Mountains, Snake River Plain, and around Yellowstone National Park.