Roadside Geology of New Jersey
by David P. Harper
Roadside Geology of New Jersey
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| Overview of New Jersey Geology |
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| Rocks and Sediments |
3
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| New Jersey's Geologic Provinces |
8
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| Proterozoic Eon: 2.5 Billion to 542 Million Years Ago |
12
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| Grenville Province and Ottawan Orogeny |
13
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| Rifting of Rodinia and the Iapetus Ocean |
19
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| Paleozoic Era: 542 to 251 Million Years Ago |
21
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| Carbonate Bank of Cambrian-Ordovician Time |
22
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| Taconic Orogeny and the Assembly of Pangea |
23
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| Acadian and Alleghanian Orogenies |
26
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| Mesozoic Era: 251 to 65 Million Years Ago |
28
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| Newark Rift Basin |
28
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| Atlantic Coastal Plain |
31
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| Cenozoic Era: 62 Million Years Ago to the Present |
32
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| Pleistocene Ice Ages |
32
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| Geology and Humans in New Jersey |
40
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| Oil in New Jersey? |
42
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| The Newark Basin: Basalt, Sedimentary rocks and Glacial Lakes |
46
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| Flood Basalts |
46
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| Watchung Copper Mines |
48
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| Sedimentation in the Newark Basin |
50
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| Extinctions at the End of Triassic Time |
54
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| Brwonstone |
56
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| Wisconsinan Glaciation of the Newark Basin |
58
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| Glacial Lakes Bayonne and Hackensack |
61
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| Glacial Lake Passaic |
63
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| ROAD GUIDES IN THE NEWARK BASIN |
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| I-78: Holland Tunnel - Interstate 287 |
67
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| I-95/I-80: George Washington Bridge - Interstate 287 |
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| I-95/I-295: Trenton Beltway |
92
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| I-287:: New York Border - Perth Amboy |
103
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| New Jersey Turnpike: Palisades Park - Garden State Turnpike |
117
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| Garden State Parkway: NY Border - NJ Turnpike |
128
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| Palisades Interstate Parkway: NY Border - Fort Lee |
136
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| Highlands and Valley and Ridge: Gaps through Hard Rock |
147
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| Mining in the Highlands |
147
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| Uranium and Rare Earths |
150
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| Schooleys Mountain and the Schooley Peneplain |
151
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| ROAD GUIDES IN THE HIGHLANDS AND VALLEY AND RIDGE |
154
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| I-78: I-287 - phillipsburg |
154
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| I-80: Denville - Delaware Water Gap |
167
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| NJ 23: Riverdale - New York Border |
197
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| Old Mine Road |
213
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| Coastal Plain: Pinelands, Beaches and Marshes |
229
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| Sedimentation on the Coastal Plain |
229
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| Coastal Plain Hills |
234
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| The Jersey Shore |
236
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| Beachcombing |
240
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| Tidal Marshes |
242
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| The Pinlands |
246
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| Cedar and Hardwood Swamps |
250
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| Big Iron Formation |
252
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| Glassmaking |
255
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| ROAD GUIDES TO THE COASTAL PLAIN |
256
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| New Jersey Turnpike: Garden State Parkway - Delaware River |
256
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| Garden State Parkway: Woodbridge - Cape May |
268
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| Glossary |
314
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| References |
326
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| Index |
331
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