Usage:
Bass River Formation (NJ*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Turonian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 442 to 504 m, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. TC 16 well, Cutts Brothers Farm, Bass River Twp., Burlington Co., NJ (Petters, 1976).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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