Table 2. Correlation of stratigraphy from New Jersey and Long Island. 



Series 



New Jersey 



Long Island 





O 



i 



Tinton Sand 



Red Banlt Sand 



Navesink Formation 



Mount Laurel Sand 



Monmouth Group 

 (undifferentiated) 





1 



(marine origin, glauconite abundant) 



(marine origin, glauconite abundant) 





a 



3 



Wenonah Formation 

 Marshalltown Formation 



Matawan Group 



Upper 

 Cretaceous 



O 

 1 



EngUshtown Formation 



Woodbury Clay 

 Merchantville Formation 



(undifferentiated) 

 (nonmarine origin, glauconite absent) 







(marine origin, glauconite abundant) 



Magothy Formation 





Magothy Formation 



(nonmarine origin, glauconite absent) 





(marine and nonmarine origin) 







Unconformi 



IT 





^ neon ormity 







Raritan Formation 



Raritan Formation 





(nonmarine) 



(nonmarine) 



Precambrian, 

 Paleozoic 







and 



Mesozoic 



Igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary bedrock 



Igneous and metamorphic bedrock 



1. After Owens and Minard (1960) 



2. After Perimutter and Todd (1965), Sirkin (1974) 



central Long Island; profile C shows that Monmouth strata are absent west 

 o£ Gilgo Beach and very thin east of Westhampton Beach. To the north they 

 pinch out under Great South Bay. 



Recent palynologic analyses by Sirkin (1974) have further defined the 

 Late Cretaceous stratigraphy in southern Long Island. He basically agreed 

 with the work of Perimutter and Todd (1965), but was able to correlate 

 basal Cretaceous sediments under Fire Island with the South Amboy Fire 

 Clay Member from New Jersey. Liebling and Scherp (1975) used detailed 

 clay mineral analyses to study Cretaceous stratigraphy under Nassau County, 

 New York; Perry, et al. (1975) provided an up-to-date summary of results 

 on pre-C^aternary Coastal Plain stratigraphy in the mid-Atlantic region. 



Crosby (1910) and Fuller (1914) applied the name Mannetto Gravel 

 (Table 1) to anomalous gravel deposits in the hills of eastern Nassau 



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