Calvert Cliffs
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Cove Point LNG Platform
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Chesapeake Bay

Calvert Cliffs, also, Cove Point LNG Platform, also, Chesapeake Bay. . , Calvert Cliffs , The Calvert Cliffs stretch more than thirty miles, from Drum Point, Calvert County, to Fairhaven, Anne Arundel County, rising in places to a height of more than 100 feet. The cliffs represent the eroded sides of the Susquehanna River Valley, inundated when the sea level rose over time, creating the Chesapeake Bay. Here are found the greatest exposure of Miocene fossils on the East Coast, dating from eight to twenty million years in age., Cove Point LNG Platform , The concrete structure rising out of the water is the platform of the Cove Point Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Terminal. The facility was guilt between 1973 and 1977 by Columbia Gas System and Consolidated Natural Gas Company to import liquefied natural gas from overseas. Gas was piped from ships at the offshore platform to storage tanks on land. The terminal closed in 1980 due mainly to a price dispute with Algeria, the chief supplier of liquefied natural gas at the time. It was reactivated by Columbia Gas in 1998 and sold to Williams in 2000. In 2002, Dominion purchased the facility and completed an expansion of the offshore platform in 2011. Expansion included capability of the facility to export liquefied natural gas., Chesapeake Bay,br> The Chesapeake Bay is America's largest estuary, measuring 185 miles in length, with a width varying from three to twenty-two miles. Cove Point Light Station is located at one of the narrowest points. Approximately five miles directly across the Bay is Dorchester County, on Maryland's Eastern Shore.