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Geologic Unit: Mount Laurel

Usage:

Mount Laurel Sand of Monmouth Group (NJ*,PA*)
Mount Laurel Sand (MD*,DE*)
Mount Laurel Formation of Monmouth Group (NJ,DE,MD)
Mount Laurel Formation (NJ*,DE,MD)


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian)*


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

Exposures at Mount Laurel, Burlington Co., central NJ (Clark and others, 1897).


AAPG geologic province:

Atlantic Coast basin*


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

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).