- Usage in publication:
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- Crosswicks group
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Clay
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Atlantic Coast basin
Summary:
Lower beds of eastern Cretaceous exposed in sections of the deep cut of Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and at Crosswicks referred to as Crosswicks group. Fossils listed.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
- Usage in publication:
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- Crosswicks clays
- Modifications:
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- Revised
- Overview
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Atlantic Coast basin
Summary:
Unit here referred to as Crosswicks clays composed chiefly of very dark-colored or black clays, at times slate or drab-colored toward top, or, as in vicinity of Matawan Creek, interstratified with layers of white sand. The dark clays frequently are glauconitic. Named for village of Crosswicks, on Crosswicks Creek, Burlington Co., southern NJ. Composes lower part of Matawan formation in Monmouth, Middlesex, Mercer, Burlington, and Camden Cos., NJ.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
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