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Geologic Unit: Red Bank

Usage:

Red Bank Sand of Monmouth Group (NJ*)
Red Bank Formation (NJ*)
Red Bank Formation of Monmouth Group (NJ,DE)
Called Redbank in early reports.


Subunits:

(ascending) Sandy Hook, Shrewsbury Members (NJ*)


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Named from exposures in vicinity of Red Bank, Monmouth Co., central NJ (Clark, 1894).


AAPG geologic province:

Atlantic Coast basin*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).