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Marcellus Shale

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(Vanuxem, 1840) - Medium-gray weathering, dark-gray to grayish-black, thin- to thick-bedded, fossiliferous, fissile and limonite-stained locally arenaceous shale. Lower contact grades downward over 12 m (40 ft) from black shale through limy shale, into silty limestone of the Buttermilk Falls Limestone (documented in drill core data of Fletcher and Woodrow, 1970). Approximately 274 m (900 ft) thick.
State New Jersey
Name Marcellus Shale
Geologic age Middle Devonian
Lithologic constituents
Major
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale > Black-shale (Bed)Medium-gray weathering, dark-gray to grayish-black, thin- to thick-bedded, fossiliferous, fissile and limonite-stained locally arenaceous shale. Lower contact grades downward over 12 m (40 ft) from black shale through limy shale.
Minor
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale (Bed)Medium-gray weathering, dark-gray to grayish-black, thin- to thick-bedded, fossiliferous, fissile and limonite-stained locally arenaceous shale. Lower contact grades downward over 12 m (40 ft) from black shale through limy shale.
Incidental
Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstoneadded subordinate siltstone and sandstone in rocktype3 per Ronald Pristas at NJ Geological Survey (March 2007)
Sedimentary > Clastic > Siltstoneadded subordinate siltstone and sandstone in rocktype3 per Ronald Pristas at NJ Geological Survey (March 2007)
References

Dalton, R.F., Herman, G.C., Monteverde, D.H., Pristas, R.S., Sugarman, P.J., and 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), scale 1:100,000.

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, 4 cross sections, 2 sheets, size 56x40; 58x41, scale 1:100.000.

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/i2540A

Vanuxem, Lardner, 1840, Fourth annual report of the geological survey of the third district: New York Geological Survey Annual Report 4, p. 355-383.

Fletcher, F.W., and Woodrow, D.L., 1970, Geology and mineral resources of the Pennsylvania portion of the Milford and Port Jervis 15-minute quadrangles: Pennsylvania Geological Survey, Fourth Series, Atlas 223, 64 p., scale 1:62,500.
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Counties Sussex