Usage:
Red Bank Sand of Monmouth Group (NJ*)
Red Bank Formation (NJ*)
Red Bank Formation of Monmouth Group (NJ,DE)
Called Redbank in early reports.
Subunits:
(ascending) Sandy Hook, Shrewsbury Members (NJ*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in vicinity of Red Bank, Monmouth Co., central NJ (Clark, 1894).
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.
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