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

_2 _?OTASI_ IN THE G_tEENSA_DS OF _EW 31_RSE_,
Locality 15, hole 6.
Field of Is_ K. Lippincott W0edstown 375 feet N, 30° E. from hole 5. Elevation of surface about 53
cet. S. 3. Tay or, driller; R, K. Ba oy, analyat.
K_O.
Formation.
st base a fewi_lches of underlying stratum.
Glauconini bed_ _th greenish_lrab clay, much 21 I0 _........
intermingled quartz sand, and yeUow grains
probably of weathered ferr_inous chert"
cc_rser grains of clear and yellow-stMn_
q_rtz and chert a_ large as _ inch in diameter,
angular and roUnded; rttm_ [n_ pipe, w_ter
beating; not sampLe_led.
Gl_ucanite beds, bIack, clayey _scous appar- S 2 25 M-14 _ _ DO.
cntly uniform. (Sample _-14_2 feet
muterial from 21 feet 10 inche_ to _ feet
of
10
inches.)
Glauco_lte beds, green, larger proportion of 5 _0 M-15 7.88 DO.
g/auce_te; runs _asily; uniterm character;
fiah sam _th le bailing feet.observed. taken at depth of 29 One
Glauconitebeds, grcen gre_*erprreporttenelay 4 7 _4 7t M-16 7,80 Do.
Btifl, fine taxtured, apparently uniform.
88mlgIt_ N_16 represents ra,_t erial from d_pth
of_O to S! feet.
Glauconit e beds, less cla_yey, green materialwith 5 5 40 _f-17 7.76 Do.
larger proportten of gl_uconite.flne texture,
soft" tands torun. Sample M_17 taken from a
bal_g _t depth of _. feet 7inches but apparently
representative of entire thickness.
Glauconitobeds brownishbl_k, eompar_tively 3 6 43 6 I M-IS 7.56 Navesi_k.
littteelay. Sampl_ M-18 t_ken from a bailing
at depth of 40 feet but _nsldgr_d rep_senta_
rive of entire thickne_.
(_lauconite beds brownish black, contalningl I _ _5 M-19 2.92 Do.
eel _nd, clay and much gl_llco/r_ie.
_veJ grains _ to _ineh in d(ameter; some of I
clear _uartz, angular; others rounded and corn- I
pDsed of quartz und chef t. Chocolate-colored
elaypellets _ to _inchin diameter alsopresen_. I
Bom_ of gravel grains smoo_h and polished
("rice gravel").
Glatlconite beds con_ing progressively more 2 7 47 7 ................. Mount Laurel and
quartz _nd but le_ clay and glauconite. I Wenonah.
NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY