How Was Cape Cod Formed
Six Thousand Year's Ago Glacial Deposits and Outwash Formed Cape Cod; However, It Would Not Have Been Recognizable with Its Unique Shape and Composition Until...
How Was Cape Cod Formed?
Six thousand years ago glacial deposits and outwash formed Cape Cod; however, it would not have been recognizable with its unique shape and composition until 3,000 years ago when the land started to be shaped by the rising sea level and erosion due to long-shore currents.
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How did the Cape Cod form?
The area was both built up and scoured by the ice sheet, which stretched down past Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket during Earth’s last major Ice Age. In their advance and retreat, the glaciers composing the ice sheet scraped rock off of Earth’s surface, eventually depositing it on Cape Cod.
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