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394:(darker, generally gray shales and mudrocks) and is overlain by the first Watching(Orange Mountain Formation) basalt. The Triassic/Jurassic boundary and correlated by pollen is located in the uppermost part of the formation, ~ 2 precessional cycles (~10β12 m) below the Orange Mountain Basalt. There are numerous
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Passaic is Late Triassic with an astronomically calibrated age of 219 to 201.7 million years ago (Ma) and is about 13,000 ft (~4 km) thick in the basin depocenter. It conformably overlies the
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deep lake sediment cycles, which were deposited during wetter climatic cycles during the Late
Triassic. These sediments came from the northwest and contain clasts from Appalachian formations.
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Olsen, P.E., 1980. The Latest
Triassic and Early Jurassic Formations of the Newark Basin (Eastern North America, Newark Supergroup): Stratigraphy, Structure, and Correlation.
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Berg, T.M., Edmunds, W.E., Geyer, A.R. and others, compilers, (1980). Geologic Map of
Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Geologic Survey, Map 1, scale 1:250,000.
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Berg, T.M., et al., (1983). Stratigraphic
Correlation Chart of Pennsylvania: G75, Pennsylvania Geologic Survey, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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466:"Cranial osteology of Hypsognathus fenneri, a latest Triassic procolophonid reptile from the Newark Supergroup of eastern North America"
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356:. The red color is often evidence that the sediments were deposited in arid conditions. The Passaic Formation overlies the
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The
Passaic is mostly shallow lakes, playa, and alluvial fan deposits resulting from the rifting of
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with a few green and brown shale interbeds; red and dark-gray interbedded
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173:maximum of over 19,685 feet (6,000 m)
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336:near the base. In New Jersey, there are
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427:New Jersey Academy of Science Bulletin
1076:Shale formations of the United States
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1116:Triassic geology of New York (state)
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1071:Geologic formations of Pennsylvania
1014:. You can help Knowledge (XXG) by
470:Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
304:. It is now named for the city of
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1061:Geologic formations of New Jersey
965:Eastern North America Rift Basins
229:Eastern North America Rift Basins
1121:Triassic geology of Pennsylvania
1106:Triassic System of North America
1096:Paleontology in New York (state)
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1101:Paleontology in Pennsylvania
288:is a mapped bedrock unit in
238:~200 miles (320 km) in
566:Geology of the Newark Basin
344:beds within the formation.
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1091:Paleontology in New Jersey
1010:in the United States is a
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302:New Brunswick, New Jersey
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348:Depositional environment
524:Geology of Pennsylvania
815:Hudson River Palisades
762:New Germantown/Oldwick
603:Orange Mountain Basalt
154:Orange Mountain Basalt
529:Geology of New Jersey
1086:Siltstone formations
623:Hook Mountain Basalt
452:Pennsylvania Geology
378:Hypsognathus fenneri
134:Geological formation
1081:Mudstone formations
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889:Buckingham Mountain
654:Lockatong Formation
608:Feltville Formation
400:contact metamorphic
392:Lockatong Formation
358:Lockatong Formation
306:Passaic, New Jersey
266:Passaic, New Jersey
164:Lockatong Formation
25:Stratigraphic range
978:Geology portal
859:Cushetunk Mountain
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649:Stockton Formation
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290:Pennsylvania
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257:Type section
251:Pennsylvania
224:Newark Basin
209:Conglomerate
783:Jacksonwald
724:Goffle Hill
454:V. 34 n. 4.
316:Description
114:Goffle Hill
1055:Categories
851:Intrusions
840:Snake Hill
776:Sand Brook
755:Union Hill
588:Supergroup
577:Formations
406:References
334:argillites
294:New Jersey
245:New Jersey
122:New Jersey
1008:formation
748:Ladentown
686:Traprock
575:Geologic
490:0272-4634
342:sandstone
326:siltstone
262:Named for
205:Sandstone
187:Siltstone
178:Lithology
170:Thickness
150:Underlies
118:Hawthorne
820:High Tor
637:Triassic
596:Jurassic
518:See also
498:17669446
330:mudstone
298:New York
272:Named by
241:New York
215:Location
191:Mudstone
160:Overlies
798:Diabase
586:Newark
402:rocks.
396:diabase
364:Fossils
183:Primary
140:Unit of
922:Faults
849:Other
697:Basalt
688:Ridges
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354:Pangea
296:, and
278:, 1980
235:Extent
220:Region
494:S2CID
322:shale
201:Other
195:Shale
1012:stub
486:ISSN
340:and
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284:The
249:and
130:Type
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