An Affiliate of the AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE THE LATEST TRIASSIC AND EARLY JURASSIC FORMATIONS OF THE NEWARK BASIN (EASTERN NORTH AMERICA, NEWARK SUPERGROUP): STRATIGRAPHY, STRUCTURE, AND CORRELATION

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Newark Supergroup deposits of the Newark Basin (New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) are here divided into nine formations called (from the bottom up): Stockton Formation (maximum 1800 m); Lockatong Formation (maximum 1150 m); Passaic Formation (maximum 6000 m); Orange Mountain Basalt (maximum 200 m); Feltville Formation (maximum 600 m); Preakness Basalt (maximum +300 m ); Towaco Formation (maximum 340 m); Hook Mountain Basalt (maximum 110 m); and Boonton Formation (maximum +500 m). The latter seven formations are new and result from subdividing the Brunswick Formation and Watchung Basalt o f Kiimmel and Darton. Each formation is characterized by its own suite of lithologies, the differences being especially obvious in the number, thickness, and nature of their gray and black sedimentary cycles (or lack thereof). Newark Basin structure still escapes comprehensive understanding, although it is clear that faults (predominantly normal) and onlaps bound both the eastern and western edges of the basin. The cumulative thickness o f formations and the apparent movement of the faults is greater on the western than the eastern side, however. Fossils are abundant in the sedimentary formations o f the Newark Basin and provide a means o f correlating the sequence with other early Mesozoic areas. The Stockton, Lockatong, and most of the Passaic Formation are Late Triassic (?Middle and Late Carnian Rhaetic) while the uppermost Passaic Formation (at least locally) and younger beds appear to be Early Jurassic (Hettangian and Sinemurian) in age. The distribution of kinds o f fossils is intimately related to sequences of lithologies in sedimentary cycles. Manuscript received 2 Jan 1980. Manuscript accepted 14 Jan 1980 Revised manuscript received 16 Sep 1980. INTRODUCTION Despite well over a century of interest in the early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup of eastern North America, many fundamental aspects of its historical and structural geology remain unexplored. In part, this is due to the complexity of stratigraphic and structural relations in the individual basins, coupled with the rarity of continuous exposures. As a result, much of our accepted understanding of the Newark Supergroup has been based on incomplete observations and opinion. The purpose of this paper is to provide a more thorough observational foundation against which past hypotheses may be assessed and on which future work may be based. Emphasis is placed on the younger beds of the Newark Basin, for they have never been examined in detail, and a new stratigraphic framework is proposed. These younger Newark Basin beds provide us with a key to understanding the entire basin column, which in turn is crucial to the context in which early Mesozoic organic evolution, continental sedimentation, and tectonic development are to be studied.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007