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Geologic Unit: Trenton

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Trenton Clays (NJ), locally known as Dogtown clays, considered obsolete.)


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous


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

Occur in a number of pits along Pond Run, 2 mi east of Trenton, southern Mercer Co., west-central NJ. (Kummel and Knapp, 1904). [US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200]


AAPG geologic province:

Atlantic Coast basin


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

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