Feet. Cape May Core #51 Start depth: 240 ft Stop depth: 245 ft Recovery (ft): 5.1 ft Date: 3/21/94 Described by: JVB, KGM, CL. 5.

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1 SAND; medium to fine sand with abundant silt, homogenous slightly mottled appearance; mica on outside, mostly quartz; few darks; peat layer.9 - ft; cnv - same as above; the last few cores are all the same; /N dark gray. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft):. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB, KGM, CL

2 SAND; fine to medium; abundant silt; homogenous structures; mica on outside of core; N/, dark gray. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft):. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB, KGM, CL

3 SAND; fine to medium; mostly quartz with abundant mica and ~ % (or less) darks; well-developed cross-laminations from ft, appears to be more than one set interesting; the rest of the core is mottled and looks bioturbated, no apparent grand size difference in crossbeds; N/, dark gray. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft):. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB, KGM, CL

4 SAND; medium; quartz, little mica, no darks; cross beds at ft, peat at 7.7 ft, abundant silt, probably little clay (true of last ft); N/, dark gray.9 ft Cape May Core # Start depth: ft Stop depth: 6 ft Recovery (ft):.9 ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB, KGM, CL

5 SAND; fine; mostly quartz, contains mica; possible parallel laminations on top SAND; fine; with little silt, most of core has abundant silt SAND; very fine sand with silt and clay; the clay makes this bed is slightly different from sediments above; N/, dark gray. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: 6 ft Stop depth: 6 ft Recovery (ft):. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB, KGM, CL

6 Sand; fine to very fine; clayey/silty; parallel laminations are common throughout core; mica is found outside entire core; clay content increases down core; MUD; sandy; pebbles are found in place at. ft; coarsening starts at. ft; pebbles are 7 mm in largest diameter, mostly clear subangular quartz with some smoky quartz; clay may be bioturbated with coarser material from -.6 ft; at. the amount of coarse material increases; coarse sand with clay dominates; pebbles up to. cm in diameter; mud and coarse sand are mixed together between. ft and bottom of core; Color N It has started raining and outdoor photograph is nearly impossible. ft Cape May Core #6 Start depth: 6 ft Stop depth: 7 ft Recovery (ft):. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB, KGM, CL

7 SAND; medium to coarse with mud matrix; almost entirely quartz large piece of lignite at. -. ft, this does not cut through core and maybe a clast; pebbles are abundant, up to cm in diameter; N/, dark gray GRAVEL; clasts. cm in diameter mostly quartz/chert with a few lithics and coal (at.9) no bedding; N/, dark gray SAND; medium to fine; silver gray; no mica, -% darks, nearly all quartz, abundant silt, very little clay; N6/ gray outdoor photography is impossible; sedimentary structures will be photographed with 6T film.8 ft Cape May Core #7 Start depth: 7 Stop depth: 7 Recovery (ft):.8 ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB, KGM, CL

8 SAND; fine, little silt, no mica, few darks, small amounts of lignite, some pebbles on outside of core only SAND; coarse, pebbles possibly in silt up to. cm; coal bed at. ft; 6N/. ft Cape May Core #8 Start depth: 7 Stop depth: 8 Recovery (ft):. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB, KGM, CL

9 Cape May Core #9 Start depth: 8 ft Stop depth: 8 ft Recovery (ft): NO RECOVERY Date: //9 Described by: JVB, KGM, CL

10 SAND; maybe caved in from above the rest of the core is good SAND; medium, some coarse, pebbles on outside of core, I don't see any on inside of core; predominantly well rounded/sorted quartz; -% darks, no mica, small amount of silt, no clay; Y 6/, gray. ft Cape May Core #6 Start depth: 8 ft Stop depth: 86 ft Recovery (ft):. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB, LM, JO

11 SAND; very coarse, grading down to granules and pebbles (to.7cm) at the base SAND; medium SAND; medium to coarse, with abundant clay SAND; medium, well rounded glassy quartz with a few darks SAND; very coarse and PEBBLES SAND; medium, with very coarse and granules; poorly sorted, sub rounded; almost all quartz; slightly finer at bottom of core (.8-. ft). ft Cape May Core #6 Start depth: 86 ft Stop depth: 9 ft Recovery (ft):. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB, LM, JO

12 SAND; coarse, poorly sorted, subrounded; pebbles up to. cm, small amount of silt, mostly quartz, many chert pebbles SAND; very coarse, abundant gravel, many chert pebbles, some lithics CLAY; organic rich, with lignite and medium/coarse sand mixed in SAND; very coarse, and gravel, similar to.-. ft; these are beautiful gravel beds; Y/, dark gray. ft Cape May Core #6 Start depth: 9 ft Stop depth: 9 ft Recovery (ft):. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB, LM, JO

13 SAND; very coarse, pebbly, similar to above. ft CLAY; plug, micaceous, organic rich; very little silt and no sand; clay: YR/, very dark gray Note: drillers went back into hole to see if any more of this run could be recovered - nothing is left; Note: photos taken first photo has top and bottom reversed Cape May Core #6 Start depth: 9 ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft):. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB, LM, JO

GRAVEL; large chert fragments and other pebbles, angular, up to cm; probably sloughed down SAND; uniform core, medium, poorly sorted, contains abundant silt; very unconsolidated, some areas have

14 GRAVEL; large chert fragments and other pebbles, angular, up to cm; probably sloughed down SAND; uniform core, medium, poorly sorted, contains abundant silt; very unconsolidated, some areas have coarse sand dominate; in situ pebbles and lignite pieces are scattered throughout; traces of mica, fine dark minerals are throughout; N/, gray. ft Cape May Core #6 Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft):. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB, LM, JO

15 SAND; medium; quartz; well-sorted, subrounded pebble beds at. and. ft; N/, gray LIGNITE; many pebbles up to.cm chert SAND; medium; quartz; well-sorted, subrounded pebble beds at. and. ft; N/, gray; many pebbles on outside of core some inside all along, no shells, little silt, no sedimentary structures; massive.6 ft LIGNITE Cape May Core #6 Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft):.6 ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB, LM, JO

16 SAND; medium sand as last core SAND; grades into a coarse to very sand, poorly sorted with pebbles to.cm/some organics; may be a channel; Note - could not go further on this run because it became too coarse; N/, gray.7 ft Cape May Core #66 Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft):.7 ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB, LM, JO

17 GRAVEL; clasts up to. cm have washed down the core SAND; medium; rounded virtually all quartz; grades to coarse sand and pebbles at. ft GRAVEL; grades from medium sand to gravel; contains chert; N/, gray J. Owens - sampled ft. ft Cape May Core #67 Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft):. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB, LM, JO

18 SAND; medium to coarse; same as above; coarsening down to pebbles; probably channels; N/, gray. ft Cape May Core #68 Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft):. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB, LM, JO

19 SLURRY; according to the drillers SAND; coarse, quartz, well sorted, but rounding is poor, perhaps a channel sand; Y/ SAND; pebbly, gravel up to 7 mm, some rounded, some angular; Y/.8 ft Cape May Core #69 Start depth: ft Stop depth:. ft Recovery (ft):.8 ft Date: //9 Described by: KGM, CL, PS, JO

20 CLAY; laminated silty-sandy, firm clay and silt and clayey sand laminations;.y/.7 ft Cape May Core #7 Start depth:. ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft):.7 ft Date: //9 Described by: KGM, CL, PS, JO

21 CLAY; same as above, peat occurs at 6., 6., 6.7, 7., 7.9 and peat pieces are common in the whole interval;.y/.ft Cape May Core #7 Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft):.ft Date: //9 Described by: KGM, CL, PS, JO

22 CLAY; laminated, sandy, a. cm thick peat;.y/. ft Cape May Core #7 Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft):. ft Date: //9 Described by: KGM, CL, PS, JO

23 CLAY; dark brown, with fine to medium sand laminations; Y/.7 ft Cape May Core #7 Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft):.7 ft Date: //9 Described by: KGM, CL, PS, JO

24 CLAY; same as last core CLAY; lithologic contact; laminated, firm, with occasional sand lenses; GY/. ft Cape May Core #7 Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft):. ft Date: //9 Described by: KGM, CL, PS, JO

25 CLAY; laminated greenish silty firm clay, (color gy /); with dark brownish sandy clay (color. y /) with some clayey silty sand lenses; peat piece occurs at Need top justification the actual run is from - ft; one foot is from previous run.9 ft Cape May Core #7 Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft):.9 ft Date: //9 Described by: KGM, CL, PS, JO

26 CLAY; dark gray, sandy; Color: / CLAY; laminated firm greenish gray, sandy, increase in pyrite toward base, obvious concentration of pyrite at ft; Color: GY /.9 ft Cape May Core #76 Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft):.9 ft Date: //9 Described by: KGM, CL, PS, JO

27 CLAY; greenish gray, laminated; firm, with dark clay nodules; Color: GY/. ft Cape May Core #77 Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: //9 Described by: KGM, CL, PS, JO

28 CLAY; greenish gray laminated firm clay with pyrite nodules; Color: GY / CLAY; laminated, sandy, to clayey sand (coarse grained), with abundant weathered broken thin shells; Color: /.8 ft Cape May Core #78 Start depth: ft Stop depth: 6 ft Recovery (ft.):.8 ft Date: //9 Described by: CL

29 SAND; homogeneous, uniform, medium, quartz, shells at. ft; Color: Y 6/. ft 6 Cape May Core #79 Start depth: 6 ft Stop depth: 67 ft Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: //9 Described by: CL 7

30 SAND; homogeneous, uniform medium quartz sand, shells common, but all broken and weathered; Color: Y 6/ *In order to avoid confusion, the footages are adjusted for -7 ft ft Cape May Core #8 Start depth: 67 ft Stop depth: 7 ft Recovery (ft.): 6.7 ft Date: //9 Described by: CL

31 Run started over again at 6, picked ~. sand, believe not in site, maybe from collapse of the hole. No more core today. Cape May Core #8 Start depth: 6 ft Stop depth: 6 ft Recovery (ft.): Date: //9 Described by: CL

32 CLAY; pebbles in clay matrix. Color: Y6/. SAND; pebbly, quartz, with abundant broken, weathered shells; Color: Y/.9 ft Cape May Core #8 Start depth: 7 ft Stop depth: 8 ft Recovery (ft.):.9 ft Date: //9 Described by: CL 9

33 SAND; uniform, fine-medium; quartz, broken shells throughout, shell hash at.-.8 ft; Color: y / CLAY; laminated, firm (Color: Y/) with medium sand (Color: Y/) shells broken and whole throughout SAND; medium quartz sand with frequent broken, weathered thin shells, shell hash at several horizons; shallow marine environment Cape May Core #8 Start depth: 8 ft Stop depth: 9 ft Recovery (ft.): 9.6 ft Date: //9 Described by: CL ft

34 SAND; medium to coarse; gray, clayey, shelly, broken thin shells throughout; Color: y /. ft Cape May Core #8 Start depth: 9 ft Stop depth: 9. ft Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: //9 Described by: CL

35 SAND; mostly medium, with very coarse, granules and pebbles up to. cm; poorly sorted; the top. is predominantly coarse sand, shell fragments are common, at. ft is a pectenid.8 abrupt contact CLAY; greenish, almost no grit some silt; no sedimentary structures;.8-. ft is very sandy, sand piped down from above; Color: GY/ dark greenish gray. ft 6 Cape May Core #8 Start depth: 9. ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB

36 CLAY and interbedded/interlaminated SILT; uniform core; laminated; shell bed at.; shell fragments are sporadic; more silty and more clayey laminae alternate; Color - GY/ dark greenish gray 6 7 Cape May Core #86 Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB 8 9. ft

37 CLAY and interbedded/interlaminated SILT; uniform core; same as above; clays are nearly grit free; silts may have aa small amount of very fine sand; large and broken bivalve shell at.8 ft maybe more than one; in some areas clay dominates and in others silt dominates SHELLS; shell bed; probably a storm event; matrix is the same clay/silt as above but shell fragments and pebbles are common; shells are mostly thick, up to. cm. pebbles up to. cm; matrix supported on top and clast supported on bottom; the largest clasts are at ft; from ft fragments are smaller and grain size is a coarse to very coarse sand; maybe an important boundary 9 SAND; fine to medium sand with abundant clay; some pebbles on outside of core, not sure if pebbles are also on the inside of the core; 9. ft Bryozoan? Tooth? Bone?; put in sample bag; Color: GY/ dark greenish gray 9.ft Cape May Core #87 Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.): 9. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB

38 SAND; fine to medium, with granules, pebbles and shell fragments SHELL BED, weathered shells, chert and quartz pebbles, large shells are disorganized. ft Cape May Core #88 Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB

39 SAND; indurated, fine, with abundant shells; shells are nested and reworked; becomes less indurated to unindurated below. to. ft SAND; coarsening down; begins as a fine sand with pebbles and shells, becomes coarse to very coarse sand with mud at base; abundant shells and fragments; pebbles up to mm; mostly granules, no whole shells, all fragments; base of this unit is not clearly defined; at.8 it changes gradually back to medium sand. SAND; medium; with bivalves and gastropods; 6. ft Cape May Core #89 Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB 7 8

40 SAND; medium to coarse, with pebbles, abundant shells, including large bivalve fragments; Color: N/ to N6/, gray abrupt contact SAND; medium which fines downward to fine muddy sand with absolutely no shell material; fining down is not so continuous; also color change is notable at. ft; Color: GY/ dark greenish gray; clay bed at -. ft; Note: Photo Error; -8.9 ft (first 6 photos in this material mislabeled) Cape May Core #9 Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.): 8.9 ft Date: //9 Described by: MVF ft

41 SAND; same as above; fine muddy sand dark greenish gray SAND; fine muddy, with green clay beds about. cms thick, spacing of clay beds varies from.8 to. ft; some of these clay beds are not easily spotted at first but others are quite distinct. (One gets the feeling of cyclicity here.7 9.); Clay color: B / dark bluish gray Cape May Core #9 Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.): 9. ft Date: //9 Described by: MVF ft

42 SAND; fine to medium, slightly muddy. Color: GY / d. greenish gray; core catcher (.7 -. ft) had higher clay matrix, odd that rhythmic bedding of run 9 should end here in this poorly recovered run. A lot of recent grass and twigs in this core, I think it fell on the ground outside. ft Cape May Core #9 Start depth: ft Stop depth: 6 ft Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: //9 Described by: MVF

43 SAND; muddy; progressively becoming more indurated to. feet CLAY; fine sandy, stiff SAND; indurated.7 ft CLAY; fine medium sandy; Color is the same throughout N/ to N/ very dark to dark gray Cape May Core #9 Start depth: 6 ft Stop depth: 6 ft Recovery (ft.):.7 ft Date: //9 Described by: JB

44 CLAY; very uniform and firm, fine sandy, sand content seems to come and go. Otherwise homogenous; Color: N/ to GY / very dark to dark greenish gray. ft 6 Cape May Core #9 Start depth: 6 ft Stop depth: 69. ft Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: //9 Described by: MVF

45 CLAY; firm, slightly fine sandy with notable thin beds of sandier clays, clay breaks like chocolate in places; Color: W/ to SGY /; Sandier beds are especially apparent at.-. and at ~.; Dropped 7. to 7.9 ft and it is not-oriented ft Cape May Core #9 Start depth: 69. ft Stop depth: 79. ft Recovery (ft.): 6. ft Date: //9 Described by: MVF 8 9

46 CLAY; very firm; almost chocolate-like clay, slightly silty at top; becomes very hard at ~.-. ft 6 Cape May Core #96 Start depth: 79. ft Stop depth: 8 ft Recovery (ft.): 6. ft Date: //9 Described by: MVF 6. ft

47 CLAY; very hard - not exactly lithified but very hard, fine grained; there is a component of silt, no sand; lots of silt; laminated interbedded silts and clay; no shells; Color - GY /; Color is tough to tell without day light Cape May Core #97 Start depth: 8 ft Stop depth: 9 ft Recovery (ft.):.7 ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB.7 ft

48 SILT, CLAY; laminated to interbedded silt and clay as above CLAY; not laminated; massive (small intervals may have laminations); less silt than above in site bivalve at. ft; no other shells fragments noted; no burrows; Color -GY /.7 - As daylight grows brighter I see that this is probably not a surface but is same above and below is between corts laminations are not visible 6 7 Cape May Core #98 Start depth: 9 ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.): 8. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB 8 8. ft 9

49 CLAY; sandy; the contact between this and the clay above is lost, changes to medium sand with pebbles SAND; clayey medium, with abundant pebbles up to. cm; black (chert?) and quartz; probably phosphate Ken Miller (6//96) SAND; highly indurated; medium; quartz and chert (phosphate?) pebbles are common; a small mold of a shell is noted at.9 ft; core cannot be cut with knife SAND; medium, clayey, occasional shell fragments and some cross beds; Color: GY / Note: Head Driller Don Queen feels this run should be bottom justified because he knows where the lithified layer was. The entire core is hard. 6 7 Cape May Core #99 Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.): 8. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB ft

50 SAND; medium, clayey and clayey and silty; shells are common; all are thin walled; no sed structures; noted; sand and clay alternate; homogenous core; Color: YR / very dark gray; these are chocolate colored 6 6. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.): 6. ft Date: //9 Described by: JVB 7 8 9

Feet. SAND; clayey, fine grained; shells are common; rounded quartz grains. SHELLS; muddy; almost no sand, shells and fragments common

Feet. SAND; clayey, fine grained; shells are common; rounded quartz grains. SHELLS; muddy; almost no sand, shells and fragments common SAND; clayey, fine grained; shells are common; rounded quartz grains SHELLS; muddy; almost no sand, shells and fragments common SAND; back to medium to fine; has a mottled appearance and looks burrowed;