Merchantville Formation

Dark gray to bluish-gray slightly glauconitic, micaceous silty, very fine sand.
State Delaware
Name Merchantville Formation
Geologic age Cretaceous
Lithologic constituents
Major
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Sandslighty glauconitic, micaceous, silty sand
Comments Upper Cretaceous, Matawan Group, may be overlain locally by the Pleistocene Columbia Formation
References

Spoljaric, Nenad and Jordan, Robert R., 1966, Generalized Geologic Map of Delaware SP4, State of Delaware, Delaware Geological Survey, scale ca. 1:300,000. Digitized by the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey in the mid 1990's.

NGMDB product
Counties New Castle