Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian Stratigraphy of Northeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Southeasternmost New York
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TitleUpper Silurian and Lower Devonian Stratigraphy of Northeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Southeasternmost New York
PublisherU.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Date Created1967
Extent83 p., maps, tables, photos, graphs
DescriptionComplex facies changes occur within Upper. Silurian and Lower Devonian strata between Cuddehackville, NY, and Bossardsville, PA, a distance of approximately 55 miles. Recent mapping by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Bushkill and Stroudsburg quadrangles of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and in the Saylorsburg quadrangle, Pennsylvania, and mapping by the New Jersey Geologic and Topographic Survey in the Port Jervis South, Milford, and Culvers Gap quadrangles has necessitated tracing rock units of late Cayuga and Helderberg age from southeastern New York, across New Jersey, and into eastern Pennsylvania in order to solve lithostratigraphic and nomenclatural problems. Stratigraphic studies of Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian strata in New York by Rickard (1962) provide the basis for a reexamination of these beds in New Jersey and northeastern Pennsylvania. Where lateral similarity with New York rock units is demonstrable, formation names are retained and new member names are proposed for lithic variants. Where evidence of similarity is lacking, older names, which might be lithologically and chronologically misleading, have been dropped and new names proposed. This report describes the results of the mappings, and presents the proposed new names.
NoteGeological Survey Bulleting 1243
NotePurpose: A description and partial revision of the physical stratigraphy an interpretations of depositional environments in Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian regions of Northeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Southeasternmost New York
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Type: Cataloging
Date: 2008-09-05 00:00:00.0
Creator: Karen Hanson
CollectionNJEDL2
Organization NameNew Jersey Environmental Digital Library
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