Chesapeake. 
Matawan. 
62 ARTESIAN WELLS ON THE ATLANTIC COAST. [bull, m 
Gibbsboro, Camden County. — A well 71 feet deep, at the residence of 
J. Lucas, obtains a water supply from beds between the Limesand and 
Middle Marl. The record is given by Mr. Woolman in New Jersey 
report for 1895. J 
Glassboro, Gloucester County. — The well bored for the New Jersey 
Packing Company reached a depth of 511 feet, but did not obtain a 
satisfactory water supply. The record was as follows : 
Feet. 
0-8 white sand with pebbles. 
( 72-80 fine yellow sticky sand. 
80-90 black sandy clay and sand with lignite. 
90-145 dark-blue clay with Turritella wquistriata, Cardita granu- 
[ lata, and coceoliths. 
Upper marl. 145-190 black sand marl with O. bryani, foraminifera and large 
Nodosaria. 
Middle marl. 190-240 blue clay, lighter than overlying marl. 
Red sand. ( ? ) 240-255 conglomerate with ponderous shells. 
Lower marl. 255-335 light-blue clay.(?) 
335-380 green and white sands intermixed. Belemnitella and 
other shells. 
380-395 clay with while quartz and greensand grains, mixed. 
395-410 yellowish sand. 
410-511 micaceous, marly sandy clay. 
From a study which Mr. Woolman made of the fragments of shells, 
and the general relations, it is thought that the Middle Marl was pen- 
etrated at 250 feet and the Lower Marl at 350 feet. The Chesapeake 
was clearly recognized. 2 
The five shallow wells bored at this locality by the West Jersey Kail- 
road Company obtain a supply of water in a sand at from 73 to 80 feet. 
They have the following record: 
Feet. 
0-20 clay. 
20-23 sand and gravel. 
23-70 yellow q uicksand. 
70-73 yellow clay. 
73-80 sand with water. 
80-86 light, fine gravel. 
86-88 black sand. 
Green marly clay. 
The water is in the basal portion of the Chesapeake formation. 
Gloucester. — Several borings have been made at this locality to vari- 
ous depths. A test well was sunk to the rock at the waterworks, 
which are on Newtown Creek, directly west of the station of the New 
Jersey Railroad. Its record was as follows : 
Feet. 
( 0-15 gravel and meadow muck. 
a 15-35 yellow clay. 
^ J 35-42 indigo-blue clay. 
-Jl J 42-54 blue-gray sand, with wood. 
g I 54-75 coarse bluish-white sand and fine gravel. 
I 75-85 blue and white gravel, with large pebbles. Water. 
1 Pages 66-67. 
8 L. Woolman, New Jersey report for 1893, pp. 407-408. 
