Fizzy salty water under Chesapeake Bay is 145 million years old
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 13:00
in Earth & Climate
Residents of towns near Chesapeake Bay have been complaining about brackish groundwater for years. Hydrologists now say that the aquifer, thousands of miles under Virginia and Maryland, is older than dirt, and part of an ancient sea that's stayed trapped for the past 145 million years.