The Passaic Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. It was previously known as the Brunswick Formation since it was...
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Newark Supergroup (section Basins and formations)
Formation) Leedstown Formation (equivalent to the Passaic Formation) Port Royal Formation (equivalent to the Lockatong Formation) Newfound Formation (equivalent...
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Haven, Hartford, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. Quarries from the Passaic Formation in northern New Jersey once supplied most of the brownstone used in...
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The Passaic River (/pəˈseɪ.ɪk/ pə-SAY-ik) is a river, approximately 80 miles (130 km) long, in Northern New Jersey. The river in its upper course flows...
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Geology of New Jersey (section Notable Rock Formations)
of the Newark Supergroup. They include the Passaic Formation, the Lockatong Formation, the Stockton Formation, and the igneous rocks basalt and diabase...
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Preakness Basalt Towaco Formation Hook Mountain Basalt Boonton Formation Triassic Doswell Formation Stockton Formation Lockatong Formation Passaic Formation...
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considered to be equivalent to the Passaic Formation of the Newark Basin. The estimated age of the Catharpin Creek Formation is late Norian to Rhaetian according...
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different formations of the Appalachian Piedmont. It interfingers with the Lockatong Formation and also rests conformably below the Passaic Formation. There...
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in the upper portion of the formation. The Towaco Formation can be characterized as a continuation of the Passaic Formation, which is mostly playa and...
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Rhaetian (section Notable formations)
the Catharpin Creek Formation, a late Triassic unit in the Culpeper Basin which is likely equivalent to the upper Passaic formation. Palynomorph turnovers...
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