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Geologic Units: Lobsterville
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Lobsterville Sand
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sand
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Atlantic Coast basin
Publication:

Kaye, C.A., 1983, The autochthonous and allochthonous coastal plain deposits of Martha's Vineyard and the Marshfield-Scituate area, southeastern Massachusetts: Atlantic Coastal Plain Geological Association Field Trip Guidebook, Martha's Vineyard, MA, October 1-2, 1983, 34 p.


Summary:

The Lobsterville Sand is here named at Martha's Vineyard, MA. It is part of the Gay Head moraine, composed of thrust plates made up of remnants of Coastal Plain sediments which were stacked up during Pleistocene glaciation. It consists of light-yellow to gray, medium to coarse, clean, shelly sand, cross-bedded, with broken mollusk shells. Overlies the Devils Bridge Clay. Thickness is 3.5 m. Age is early Pliocene, based on fossils.

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


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