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Jacksonburg Limestone and Sequence at Wantage, undivided

Jacksonburg Limestone and Sequence at Wantage, undivided - Jacksonburg Limestone - Upper part is medium- to dark-gray, laminated to thin-bedded shaly limestone and less abundant medium-gray arenaceous limestone containing quartz-sand lenses. Upper part thin to absent to northeast. Lower part is interbedded medium- to dark-gray, fine- to medium-grained, very thin to medium-bedded fossiliferous limestone and minor medium- to thick-bedded dolomite-cobble conglomerate having a limestone matrix. Unconformable on Beekmantown Group and conformable on the discontinuous sequence at Wantage in the Paulins Kill area. Contains conodonts of North American midcontinent province from Phragmodus undatus to Aphelognathus shatzeri zones of Sweet and Bergstrom (1986). Thickness ranges from 41 to 244m (135-800 ft). Sequence at Wantage - Restricted, discontinuous sequence of interbedded limestone, dolomite, conglomerate, siltstone, and shale. Upper part is medium-yellowish-brown- to olive-gray-weathering, medium- to dark-gray, very fine to fine-grained, laminated to massive limestone and dolomite that grade down into underlying clastic rocks of lower part. Upper part locally absent. Lower part ranges from grayish-red, medium-gray, pale-brown, and greenish-gray to pale-green mudstone and siltstone containing disseminated subangular to subrounded chert-gravel, quartz-sand lenses, and chert-pebble conglomerate. Lower contact unconformable. Thickness ranges from 0 to 46 m (0-150 ft).
StateNew Jersey
NameJacksonburg Limestone and Sequence at Wantage, undivided
Geologic ageMiddle Ordovician
Original map labelOjw
Primary rock typelimestone
Secondary rock typedolostone (dolomite)
Other rock typesconglomerate; siltstone; shale ; chert
Lithologic constituents
Major
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone
Minor
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale
Sedimentary > Clastic > Siltstone
Sedimentary > Clastic > Conglomerate
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Dolostone
Incidental
Sedimentary > Chemical > Chert
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.
Sweet, W.C., and Bergstrom, S.M., 1986, Conodonts and biostratigraphic correlation: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science, v. 14, p. 85-112.
Geographic coverageWarren

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