- Usage in publication:
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- Wildcat Marble*
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Marble
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Appalachian basin
Summary:
Wildcat Marble, informally named Wildcat band of marble by Hague, J.M., Baum, J.L., Herrmann, L.A., and Pickering, R.J., 1956, Geology and structure of the Franklin-Sterling area, N.J.: GSA Bull., v. 67, no. 4, p. 435-474, is here formally named. It was originally mapped with the Franklin Limestone by Spencer and others (1908) but is here removed from the revised Franklin. [Wildcat was erroneously described as a formal name in Bulletin 1200.] Wildcat is separated from the Franklin by the Cork Hill gneiss zone. Through most of the area it is represented by a single band of marble, generally indistinguishable from Franklin band (Hague and others). Unconformably overlies Losee Metamorphic Suite and charnockitic rocks of NJ Highlands; unconformably underlies lower Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. Age is Middle Proterozoic.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
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