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along the strike northeastward into New York. The Stockton 

 beds disappear beneath the later deposits a few miles east of 

 Princeton. But owing to a slight change of strike they come 

 to the surface again on both sides of the Palisades from Hoboken 



Fig. 3. — Newark rocks of Eastern New Jersey. 



northward (Fig. 3). They are exposed in many places along 

 the foot of the Palisades near the water's edge, and in a few 

 localities where the glacial drift is thin, the typical arkose sand- 

 stone has been found on the west side of the Palisades. These 

 rocks are correlated with those of the Trenton area for the fol- 

 lowing reasons. Lithologically, they are almost exactly identi- 

 cal ; in both there are coarse arkose sandstones locally con- 



