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Manasquan Formation

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Consists of several lithologies. In the northern part of the central sheet, unit consists of a lower, clayey, quartz-glauconite sand, which is exposed intermittently along the Manasquan River near Farmingdale, Monmouth County, and an upper, finegrained quartz sand or silt, which is exposed along Hog Swamp Brook west of Deal, Monmouth County. The Farmingdale Member and the Deal Member (of Enright, 1969) are not used on this map because they are not continuous through the outcrop belt or in the subsurface. The formation is best exposed in the central sheet from the Fort Dix Military Reservation, Burlington County, southwestward to the Medford Lakes quadrangle. Here the lower part of the formation consists of 5 m (16 ft) of medium- to coarse-grained, massive, dark-grayish-green, glauconite-quartz sand. The lowest 1 m (3 ft) mostly contains calcareous debris and phosphatized internal fossil molds reworked from the underlying Vincentown Formation. The upper part of the formation is approximately 8 m (26 ft) thick and is mostly a very clayey, blue-green to pale-gray, quartz-glauconite (about 20 percent glauconite) sand. Locally, the glauconite content of this interval is variable, and the unit becomes almost a bluegreen clay-silt, especially near Pemberton, Burlington County (Owens and Minard, 1964a). Casts and molds of mollusks (especially Venericardia perantiqua) occur in outcrop. The age of the formation was determined from microfauna in unweathered subsurface beds. Calcareous nannofossils indicates upper Zone NP 9 to mid Zone NP 14 (early Eocene).
State New Jersey
Name Manasquan Formation
Geologic age lower Eocene, Ypresian
Lithologic constituents
Major
Unconsolidated > Marl (Bed)Locally, the glauconite content of this interval is variable, and the unit becomes almost a bluegreen clay-silt, especially near Pemberton, Burlington County (Owens and Minard, 1964a).
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Sand (Bed)The lower part of the formation consists of 5 m (16 ft) of medium- to coarse-grained, massive, dark-grayish-green, glauconite-quartz sand. The lowest 1 m (3 ft) mostly contains calcareous debris and phosphatized internal fossil molds reworked from the underlying Vincentown Formation. The upper part of the formation is approximately 8 m (26 ft) thick and is mostly a very clayey, blue-green to pale-gray, quartz-glauconite (about 20 percent glauconite) sand.
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.

Owens, James P., Sugarman, Peter J., Sohl, Norman F., Parker, Ronald A., Houghton, Hugh F., Volkert, Richard A., Drake, Avery A., Jr., and Orndorff, Randall C., 1998, Bedrock Geologic Map of Central and Southern New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-2540-B, 8 cross sections, 4 sheets, each size 58x41, scale 1:100,000.

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/i2540B

Enright, Richard, 1969, The stratigraphy and clay mineralogy of the Eocene sediments of the northern New Jersey Coastal Plain, in Subitzky, Seymour, ed., Geology of selected areas in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania and guidebook of excursions: New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, p. 14-20.

Owens, J.P., and Minard, J.P., 1964a, Pre-Quaternary geology of the Pemberton quadrangle, New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-262, scale 1:24,000.

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/gq262
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Counties Burlington - Monmouth - Ocean