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Geologic Unit: Woodbridge
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Woodbridge fire clay
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Clay
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Atlantic Coast basin
Publication:

Cook, G.H., and Smock, J.C., 1877, Map of clay district of Middlesex County [New Jersey]: New Jersey Geological Survey


Summary:

Woodbridge fire clay. Economic term for a bed of clay, 50 to 80 feet thick, in lower part of Raritan formation in northeastern New Jersey. Lies 15 to 35 feet higher than Raritan fire-clay bed. Worked south of Woodbridge. [Age is Cretaceous.]
See also G.H. Cook, 1878, New Jersey Geol. Survey report on clays, p. 34.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 2364).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Woodbridge fire clay
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Atlantic Coast basin
Publication:

Barksdale, H.C., Baker, R.C., DeBuchananne, G.D., Johnson, M.E., and Schaefer, E.J., 1943, The ground-water supplies of Middlesex County, New Jersey, with a special reference to the part of the coastal plain northeast of Jamesburg: New Jersey State Water Policy Commission Special Report, no. 8, 160 p.


Summary:

Pg. 66, 103-104. Woodbridge fire clay in Raritan formation. Overlies Farrington sand member (new); underlies Sayreville sand member (new). Thickness 50 to 90 feet. [Age is Cretaceous.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 4288).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Woodbridge Clay Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
    • Adopted
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Atlantic Coast basin
Publication:

Sirkin, L.A., 1974, Palynology and stratigraphy of Cretaceous strata in Long Island, New York and Block Island, Rhode Island: U.S. Geological Survey Journal of Research, v. 2, no. 4, p. 431-440.


Summary:

Woodbridge Clay of Cook and Smock (1877) adopted as Woodbridge Clay Member of Raritan Formation. Recognized in northeastern New Jersey. Overlies Farrington Sand Member of Raritan; underlies Sayreville Sand Member of Raritan. Age is Late Cretaceous.

Source: Changes in stratigraphic nomenclature, 1974 (USGS Bull. 1405-A, p. A24-A25).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Woodbridge Clay Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Atlantic Coast basin
Publication:

Valentine, P.C., 1984, Turonian (Eaglefordian) stratigraphy of the Atlantic Coastal Plain and Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1315, 21 p.


Summary:

Woodbridge Clay and Sayreville Sand Members of the Raritan Formation in NJ and the Raritan equivalent on the eastern shore of VA are assigned to early Turonian.

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


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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