Minisink Limestone and New Scotland Formation, undivided

Minisink Limestone and New Scotland Formation, undivided - Minisink Limestone (Epstein and others, 1967) - Light-medium-gray-weathering, medium-gray, fine-grained, medium-bedded, partly massive, argillaceous fossiliferous limestone. Some nodules and lenses of purer limestone occur locally. Lower contact gradational. Thickness uniformly 7 m (23 ft). New Scotland Formation (Clarke and Schuchert, 1899) - Upper part is dark-gray, very fine grained, laminated to thin-bedded siliceous shale containing pods of medium-dark-gray, very fine grained limestone; scattered thin beds and lenses of medium-gray, fine-grained argillaceous fossiliferous limestone; and small dark-gray chert nodules. Lower part is medium-dark-gray, thin-bedded, siliceous, fossiliferous calcareous shale. Contains thin beds and lenses of medium-gray, fine-grained, highly fossiliferous, argillaceous limestone containing nodules, lenses and, locally, irregular beds of dark-gray chert. Lower contact abrupt and placed at top of calcareous quartz sandstone. Total thickness is approximately 23 m (75 ft).