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Mt. Laurel-Navesink Formation

Mt. Laurel-Navesink Formation - Dark greenish brown and dark gray, highly glauconitic sandy silt and silty sand.
StateDelaware
NameMt. Laurel-Navesink Formation
Geologic ageCretaceous
Original map labelKmlns
CommentsUpper Cretaceous, Monmouth Group, may be overlain locally by the Pleistocene Columbia Formation
Primary rock typesilt
Secondary rock typesand
Other rock types
Lithologic constituents
Major
Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Silthighly glauconitic sandy silt and silty sand.
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Sandhighly glauconitic sandy silt and silty sand.
Map references
Spoljaric, Nenad and Jordan, Robert R., 1966, Generalized Geologic Map of Delaware, State of Delaware, Delaware Geological Survey, scale ca. 1:300,000.
Unit references
Spoljaric, Nenad and Jordan, Robert R., 1966, Generalized Geologic Map of Delaware, State of Delaware, Delaware Geological Survey, scale ca. 1:300,000.
Geographic coverageNew Castle

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