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60 feet altitude appears arkose arkose Pensauken arkose phase arkose sand Arneys Mount base basin Beacon Hill Beacon Hill formation beds belt Berlin Bordentown bowlders Bridgeton formation Cape May formation cemented chert Clarksburg clay coarse cobbles Cohansey correlated covered Cretaceous Crosswicks Creek crystalline rock Daretown Delaware developed diameter distinct divide drainage east elevation Englishtown eolian erosion exposures farther feet of gravel Freehold glacial Glassboro glauconitic glauconitic sand gravel gravel and sand gravel caps higher Hightstown ironstone Jacobstown Jamesburg Lawrence Brook less loam lower lowland Manasquan Matawan material Millstone Miocene Newark non-arkose northeast northwest outcrops patches of gravel pebbles Pensauken formation Pensauken gravel places pre-Bridgeton pre-Pensauken probably quartz quartzite Rancocas Rancocas Creek Raritan red shale region remnants River sand and gravel sandstone sauken scarp shale slope South Amboy southeast stream surface Swedesboro terraces thick tion Toms River topographic Trenton tributary upper vicinity Woodmansie Woodstown
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Seite 88 - On tlie whole, the belief is entertained tentatively, that rivers were the agents chiefly concerned in the depositions of the formations, and that such part (if any) of it as is marine is very subordinate. THICKNESS. The formation was, on the whole, thickest along the axis of the Amboy-Bordentown-Salem belt, and thinned both to the northwest and southeast. The greater thickness near the axis of the belt seems to be because the bottom of the valley was lowest there, when deposition began. It is probable...
Seite 207 - ... entire course, making it seem to be fordable almost everywhere without danger of wet feet; but in truth there was hardly a spot at which it could be crossed without a bold leap from rock to rock. Narrow as was the aperture through which the water had cut its way, nevertheless a path had been contrived, now on one side of the stream and now on the other, crossing it here ana there by slight hanging wooden bridges.
Seite 163 - ... the coast was accompanied by crustal warping so that the stream gradients were diminished or by an oversupply of sediment, valley filling proceeded at an accelerated rate. We find today deposits of sands and gravels at low levels about the coast and in the lower ends of valleys and similar deposits extend far up the valleys to elevations of 140 or 150 feet along streams which have their source in the higher parts of the Coastal Plain. These deposits are called the Cape May formation, since all...
Seite 68 - A broad plain of erosion was developed between Raritan Bay on the northeast and Salem on the southwest. This plain was about 20 miles wide at New Brunswick, 12 miles wide at Monmouth Junction, 15 to 20 miles wide between Trenton and Philadelphia, 10 miles at Chester, 20 at Salem. Southeast of this broad valley lay the main divide of South Jersey, along the line connecting Atlantic Highlands, Mount Pleasant, Clarksburg and Berlin.