State | New Jersey |
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Name | Allentown Dolomite |
Geologic age | Lower Ordovician and Upper Cambrian |
Lithologic constituents |
Major
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Dolostone (Bed)Upper part is medium-light- to medium-dark-gray, fine- to medium-grained, locally coarse-grained, medium- to very thick bedded dolomite. Rhythmically bedded lower dolomite beds alternate between light and dark gray weathering, medium and very light gray, fine and medium grained, and thin and medium bedded, which are interbedded with shaly dolomite.
Minor
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale (Bed)Very thin to very thick bedded dolomite containing minor orthoquartzite and shale. Shaly dolomite.
Incidental
Sedimentary > Chemical > Chert (Lens)discontinuous, dark-gray chert lenses occur directly below upper contact.
Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Metaclastic > Quartziteorthoquartzite; floating quartz sand grains and two sequences of medium-light- to very light gray, thin-bedded quartzite
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Comments | Kittatinny Supergroup (Lower Ordovician and Cambrian) (Drake and Lyttle, 1980) |
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 Wherry, E.T., 1909, The early Paleozoic of the Lehigh Valley district, Pennsylvania: Science, new series, v. 30, p. 416.Drake, A.A., Jr., and Lyttle, P.T., 1980, Alleghanian thrust faults in the Kittatinny Valley, New Jersey, in Manspeizer, Warren, ed., Field studies of New Jersey geology and guide to field trips; 52nd annual meeting of the New York State Geological Association: Newark, N.J., Rutgers University Press, p. 92-114.Howell, B.F., 1945, Revision of the Upper Cambrian faunas of New Jersey: Geological Society of America Memoir 12, 46 p.Howell, B.F., Roberts, H.B., and Willard, Bradford, 1950, Subdivision and dating of the Cambrian of eastern Pennsylvania: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 61, no.12, p. 1355-1367. |
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Counties | Hunterdon - Morris - Somerset - Sussex - Warren |