Table 1. Comparative Stratigraphy of Inner New York Bight. 



Era 



Period 



Epoch 



Age (years) 



Northern New Jersey 



Western Long Island 



Cenozoic 



Quaternary 



Holocene 



<12.0X10 3 



Silt and reworked 

 alluvial detritus 



Silt and reworked 

 glaciofluvial detritus 







Pleistocene 



<1.5X10 6 



Alluvial sand and 

 gravel 



Cape May Sand 



Harbor Hill Glacial Till 

 Ronkonkoma Glacial 

 Till 



Gardiners Silt 

 Jameco Gravel 



Cenozoic 



Tertiary 



Pliocene 

 Miocene 



6.0 X 10 6 

 17.0 X 10 6 



Cohansey Sand 









Paleocene 



60.0 X 10 6 



Vincentown Sand 

 Hornerstown Sand 





Mesozoic 



Cretaceous 



Upper Cretaceous 



75.0 X 10 6 



Tinton Sand 

 Red Bank Sand 

 Navesink Sand 

 Mt. Laurel Sand 

 Wenonah Sand 

 Marshalltown Sand 

 Englishtown Sand 

 Woodbury Clay 

 Merchantville Sand 

 Magothy Sand 



Magothy Sand 

 Raritan Clay 

 Lloyd Sand 



Precambrian 







>570.0 X 10 6 



Undifferentiated 



Undifferentiated 









metamorphic rock 



metamorphic rock 



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