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Geologic Unit: Farrington

Usage:

Farrington Sand Member of Raritan Formation (NJ*,NY,PA)


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous*


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

Exposures in band nearly 1 mi wide along southeast edge of Farrington Lake, Middlesex Co., east-central NJ (Barksdale and others, 1943).


AAPG geologic province:

Atlantic Coast basin*


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