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Geologic Unit: Branchville

Usage:

Branchville Member of Epler Formation (NJ)


Geologic age:

Early Ordovician


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Not stated. A measured section including this unit extends for about 1.6 km westward from abandoned Lehigh and New England RR right-of-way, 1200 m south of NJ Route 206 near Branchville, Sussex Co., NJ (Markewicz and Dalton, 1977).


AAPG geologic province:

Appalachian basin


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