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Geologic Unit: Edison
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Edison gneiss*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Gneiss
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Appalachian basin
Publication:

Wolff, J.E., and Brooks, A.H., 1898, The age of the Franklin white limestone of Sussex County, New Jersey, IN Walcott, C.D., Eighteenth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1896-1897; Part II, Papers chiefly of a theoretical nature: U.S. Geological Survey Annual Report, 18, pt. 2, p. 425-457.


Summary:

Belt of gneisses characterized by their richness in disseminated magnetite here named Edison gneiss. Extensively mined at old Ogden mines, now called Edison. . [In U.S.G.S. Franklin Furnace Folio, no. 161, 1908, this name was discarded, the rock being an inseparable part of Byram gneiss.]

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


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