Usage:
Spring Lake beds (informal) (NJ)
Spring Lake beds (informal) of Trenton Gravel (PA)
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene; Sangamonian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in bluffs along Spring Lake where the Delaware River cuts across the valley fill of the Assunpink Creek, [in Trenton East 7.5-min quadrangle, Mercer Co.], southern NJ (Owens and Minard, 1979).
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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