Esopus Formation (NJDe;7)

Esopus Formation (Vanuxem, 1842) - Medium-gray weathering, medium- to dark-gray, laminated to medium-bedded, partly massive, shaly to finely arenaceous siltstone, containing minor calcareous siltstone near top, locally limonite stained. Contains Taonurus. Rocks are cleaved in southwest and extreme northeast part of outcrop belt but not in central region. Lower contact sharp and unconformable where underlying Oriskany Group is coarse quartz sandstone. Elsewhere, lower contact conformable; fine sandstone to siltstone grades downward several meters into silty limestone. Thickness approximately 91 m (300 ft).

State	New Jersey
Name	Esopus Formation
Geologic age	Lower Devonian
Original map label	De
Primary rock type	siltstone
Secondary rock type
Other rock types
Lithologic constituents	Major Sedimentary > Clastic > Siltstone (Lense)Medium-gray weathering, medium- to dark-gray, laminated to medium-bedded, partly massive, shaly to finely arenaceous siltstone, containing minor calcareous siltstone near top, locally limonite stained.
Map references	Dalton, R. F., Herman, G. C., Monteverde, D. H., Pristas, R. S., Sugarman, P. J., Volkert, R. A., 1999, New Jersey Department Of Environmental Protection, Bedrock Geology and Topographic Base Maps of New Jersey: New Jersey Geological Survey CD Series CD 00-1; ARC/INFO (v. 7.1) export file: geology.e00, scale 1:100,000, unit description files: cslegend.pdf and nlegend.pdf, metadata: metast.pdf.
Unit references	Dalton, R. F., Herman, G. C., Monteverde, D. H., Pristas, R. S., Sugarman, P. J., Volkert, R. A., 1999, New Jersey Department Of Environmental Protection, Bedrock Geology and Topographic Base Maps of New Jersey: New Jersey Geological Survey CD Series CD 00-1; ARC/INFO (v. 7.1) export file: geology.e00, scale 1:100,000, unit description files: cslegend.pdf and nlegend.pdf, metadata: metast.pdf. Drake, Avery A. Jr.,Volkert, Richard, A., Monteverde, Donald H., Herman, Gregory C., Houghton,Hugh F., Parker, Ronald A., and Dalton, Richard F., 1996, Bedrock Geologic Map of Northern New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellanenous Investigations Map I-2540-A, scale 1 to 100,000, 4 cross sections, 2 sheets, size 56x40; 58x41. [http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/i2540A] Vanuxem, Lardner, 1842, Geology of New York, part III, comprising the survey of the third geological district: Albany, N.Y., 306 p.
Geographic coverage	Sussex