Bulletin 23. Potash in the Greensands of NJ, 1923 - State of New ...

22 FOTASIcI IN THE GREENSAND$ OF NEW JERSEY.
Records of hole.s in 8slam distrlet.
Lo_lil_ 1, bole 1,
[FarmofLouts_ogg,
vatioaofsudace,
WainutStreet, Salem aboutthree-quartersof_mileS.23_W._feourtbouse.
abou$2leet. S. ATaylor_drlller. Analy_ts:Cha_ePahner(_-ltoM-4),R.K.BaU0y
Ele-
(_£-.5j]
! Field
M_ _pth. : NO. of KjO. Form_tiol%
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[._mple,.
L re. Rm
Top sod and dark soil ...........................
Clgy dark gray, sandy, with scattered quartz :
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S
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_ 8
Recent.
Plelstoc_.
pe]_hles _n4 including _ineh water-bearing :
bed ot yellow pebbly sand a_ depth of 3 feet !
3 inches,
Gravel, coarse and free angldar fr_!Tments vN 4 11 Do.
tuch to 2 inches in diameter chieny qusrtz,
with somo chert. _Iore or ess a ternation of
s_nd and gravel with considerable yellow clay,
pgbble_ becoming more rolmded. _ few
weathered needles of amphibola ?.
Send, deep yellow to orange-,yeSow, with black L4 25 Do.
specks; co_tains_attered tiny pebble% espeemily
near the top. Lowest foot glauco_Jtic,
Chy, glauconitie_ yellowish gr ..,_en somewhat
sandy, containing scatteredpehbles ½ to t
l 26
inch in diameter and scattered chocolate_alored
clay Dellets.
Glaueonite beds 4 36 N-1 8.11 Horner'xtow_a.a
7 87 4 M-2 6.30 Do.
clay intermingled.
_ome noddies with 4 41 7
1 42 7 N-3 S. 57 Do.
3 9 46 4 N-4 7.27 DO.
raining shell bed that was not measured but
is probably odiy a few inches thick.
Glaueonite beds with greenish clay in some- 2 48 4 N-5 7._ Navealak (?)a
what l_rger proportions than gbove. Some
fraglne_t_¢lgrge _hells ( E_ o¢_ra or C,rvph aea)
and broken casts composed of coDsohdatod
and t ether with a few tiny pebbles }
gr av_el°_1?) are included,
Sand, glauconJtio and clayey; much quartz, 4 2 52 5 .............. Mount Laurela
some graL_ of which are firm enough to float and We_c_ah.
b,yslsurface tension; clay, greenith gray, less
abundant than in above beds; some shell fragments;
water beariag.
a For the use of these names In tkls and subsequent records see stratigraphie notes, pp. 1_35-137.
L_lJly 2, hole 2.
[samegeneralloe_,Styasholel,31sfeetS. 4s_3'W.fromit. SurRacoolevation_about2feet, C.C. Holladay,driRor,
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For_atinn.
8oiland muck, dark colored ................................ [
Cl_y, ray sand ........................................... ] 8 9
Grav_ with ye_ow s_nd and stall quartz pebbles,sue- 6 3 7 3 Pleist_cene.
ceedod by lighter-colored sandand gravel c_ntainJ pebbleS;
usually not over _t neh but locally2_ riches Inn_mm - [
Oravel,d_perye_w less_u-oixtttroofsat(d ............... [ 8 8 2_ 8
Sand, et er: yellowish sue_e&_lon to norally greenish, similar with t oinerea_ng that at holeamount 1. ot [ 25 5 I Vlncontown (?),
18,UCOair e.
G_ueonJtebodswithsomot_aixtureofyellowlshclay,
not
penetrated.
NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
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