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; Color: YR / very dark gray Cape May Core # Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: // Described by: JVB. ft
SAND; clayey, fine; with some medium; it is more clay rich below. ft; shells are common on top and become rare at bottom; Color: YR /; very dark gray (Chocolate) SAND; this is distinctly different; fine to medium sand with little clay; sporadic shells; lots of silt and little cla;, mostly quartz with a few percent dark minerals; Color: GY /; The contact between the two is abrupt and appears to be burrowed Cape May Core # Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: // Described by: JVB. ft
SAND; homogenous core; same as above; medium, with lots of silt;the amount of clay varies, some intervals have more and are firmer; massive with a bioturbate texture; a few shell frags at top of core; Color: GY / Cape May Core # Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: // Described by: JVB. ft
SAND; basically same as above, medium with silt; becomes more clay-rich and very firm at ~.-. ft; Color: fresh surface = GY / dark greenish gray. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: //
SAND; medium; fairly clean, and not as firm as the core above; slight clay content comes and goes; Color: GY / dark greenish gray. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: //
Lithology change, from previous core SAND; muddy, fine, with lots of shell material broken into small fragments; abundant at very top of core, distinct shell hash at. ft. Color = same as above, CLAY; lithology and color differ from upper ft; fine, gray-green, sandy; indurated at. ft to base (. ft); hard indurated shell laden slightly sandy (perhaps, claystone); in certain places, almost solid shell material; shelly zones:.-. ft - component of black shell fragments and chips,.-. ft - whole shells, at. ft - whole shells,.-. ft - whole shells; YR / = gray -.; *Color changes gradually over foot zone straddling. ft mark. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: //
SAND; gray, clayey; poorly sorted, lots of broken shell material; this is not nearly as indurated as above (in fact, it s not indurated); but still firm sand; shell zones at.,.,.,.-. ft; slight color change from above, Color: N/ - N/ = gray;. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: //
No recovery;?shell hash being blown away. Cape May Core # Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.): Date: //
SAND; muddy, shell hash in a gray sand matrix GY /. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: //
SAND; muddy, shell hash in a gray sand matrix GY /. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: ft Stop depth:. ft Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: //
SAND; muddy, shell hash in a gray sand matrix GY /. ft Cape May Core # Start depth:. Stop depth:. Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: //
SAND; gray, clayey, medium to fine; Color: N/ CLAY; sandy, silty; brownish gray; Color: N/. ft Cape May Core # Start depth:. ft Stop depth:. ft Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: // Described by: CL
SAND; fine, with brown clay laminations at.,. and. ft; uniform core; Color: N/ gray Cape May Core # Start depth:. Stop depth:. Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: // Described by: CL. ft
CLAY; laminated, firm, brownish: with interbedded gray, loose, fine to coarse cross bedded sand; organic rich at base of each clay layer, decrease upward, prodelta environment; Color: clay; N/, sand:.y / Cape May Core # Start depth:. Stop depth:. Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: // Described by: CL. ft
SAND; fine to medium, gray, cross-bedded, with brown firm clay laminations; Peat at. and. ft; Color: clay:.y /; sand: N/ Cape May Core # Start depth:. ft Stop depth: ft Recovery (ft.):. ft Date: // Described by: CL. ft
CLAY; brown, firm, silty with fine sand laminations; sands are cross-bedded; Color: clay:. y /, sand: N/ Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft.):. Date: // Described by: CL. ft
CLAY; firm, brown, abundant silt; with laminated sands; distinct gray silty sand bed.-.; core disturbance.-. ft CLAY; fine, sandy, with shell fragments; Color: clay:.y / very dark grayish brown, sand: N/ gray. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft.):. Date: //
CLAY; sandy, fine, with shell fragments; laminations of gray sand especially.-. ft where shell fragmants begin to decrease in abundance; Color:.y / CLAY; sandy, medium; no laminations and lots of scattered shell fragments; zones of large fragments at.,.,.-. ft; Color:.y / SHELL HASH; with medium to coarse sandy clay matrix, gray color; in situ whole Turritella at ft, placed in sample bag Color: N/ very dark gray. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft.):. Date: //
CLAYSTONE; indurated; sandy, medium to coarse, with shell fragments; Color variable but mainly N/. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft.):. Date: //
SANDSTONE; ringer; very indurated, medium to coarse sand; Surface at (. ft =. ft) SAND; medium to coarse, muddy, with minor pebbles and shells/shell fragments; Color: N/ dark gray CLAY; dark green, very little silt; shells and pebbles lacking until very base at. ft where there are huge shell fragments in more like a sandy clay; Color: clay: GY /; hard layer: /-/ gray dark gray. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft.):. Date: //
CLAY; sandy; shell hash; Color: N/ - N/ CLAY; quickly grades into firm clay; the clay alternates from chocolate like to modeling clay; Color:.-. ft: N/ - N./ very dark gray black at top,.-. ft:. y /. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: //
CLAY; chocolate, dark gray with minor fine sand element here and there; shell material at.,. ft; Color. Y / very dark gray Drilling disturbances CLAY; with gravely zones especially at. -. ft; Color:. y / dark gray SAND; gravely with shell hash; Color:. y /. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: //
.ft GRAVEL; cemented, consolidated, shelly, pebbles well rounded, up to. cm in diameter; a piece thick shell; Color:. y / Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth:. Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: KGM, CL, SP
GRAVEL; same as above SAND; less consolidated, coarse, clayey, pebbly, no visible shells; Color:. y / SAND; coarse; extremely hard, consolidated; pebbly, quartz sand; shells not visible, however, holes with bivalve morphology indicate that shell fragments were dissolved. Color:. y / Near shore marine environments. ft Cape May Core # Start depth:. Stop depth:. Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: KGM, CL, SP
-. SAND; same as above (.-. ft: coarse; extremely hard, consolidated; pebbly, quartz sand; shells not visible, however, holes with bivalve morphology indicate that shell fragments were dissolved. Color:. y / Near shore marine environments. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: KGM, CL, SP
Intended to pick up the leftovers from run, but no recovery Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft): Date: // Described by: KGM, CL, SP
SAND; coarse, pebbly, shell hash; fresh shell (pectenid?) fragments; Color:. y /. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: KGM, CL, SP
SAND; coarse, gravelly; consolidated; Color: N/ SAND, coarse alternating with CLAY; shell fragments; Color: N/. ft GRAVEL; consolidated shell (pectenid); Color: N/ Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: KGM, CL, SP
SAND; coarse, gravel, up to cm, dissolved shells, consolidated sands/ bryozoan; Color:. Y / SAND; medium to coarse, clay, broken shells; Color: N SAND; coarse, consolidated; shelly, pebbly, clayey, shell hash, shells broken, some thick shells, weathered, and some fresh ones, oysters; Color: N. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: KGM, CL, SP
-. SHELLS; shell bed, fresh and altered; Color:. Y /. -. SAND; medium; occasional small shell fragments; mostly unconsolidated; Color: Y /. -. SAND; finer than above; more clay, unconsolidated but more compact than above; Color: Y /;. -. SAND; medium with less clay; Color: Y /. -. SAND; consolidated; medium; occasional thin clay laminations interspersed with thin sand laminations; dissolved shells and altered shells; Color: Y / to / possible intertidal deposits, sand and clay drapes?. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: KGM, CL, SP
-. SAND; mainly medium, clayey ;occasional small shell fragments 'f cm; Color. Y /. -. SAND; medium; little clay. -. SAND; more clayey. -. SAND; medium; little clay. -. SAND; medium; more clay; this seems to be near shore.. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: KGM, CL, SP
Note: Retook shots -. SAND; medium, clayey N /.-. SAND; coarsening downwards to pebbly coarse sand; pebbly layers interspersed; N/ to N/ Fining upward from -. ft from coarse gravely sands to medium sand; transgresses from - ft near beach to nearshore Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: KGM, CL, SP. ft
-. SAND; medium-coarse; muddy; with a few granules; Color: N/ - N/ gray Naturally, a mess up on the first core of the night Rephotod as "". ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: //
SAND; medium to coarse, muddy; scattered quartz granules; N/ - N/ gray Note: I m using granule and "gravely" interchangeably. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: //
-. SAND; coarse; gray, fairly clean but poorly sorted; quartz; gravels are washed down not and in situ. -. SAND; medium, becomes muddy; becoming a coarse muddy sand by. ft. -. SAND; medium, muddy; quartz, lignite, peat. ft. -. SAND; coarse to very coarse; quartz.; Colors: sand YR / to / gray; Lignite. YR./ to./, reddish black to very dusky red Note: Cores are difficult to clean so try to remove drilling mud or cut through it to describe the core Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: //
Overall fine-medium sands; occasional med-coarse fragment shells some fresh others altered -. SAND; medium; some shell hash. -. SHELLS; shell are mostly altered; Color: N/.-. SAND; medium, clayey; only occasional small shell fragments; Color: GY /. -. SHELL; fine to medium, occasional coarse; shell hash with bryozoans; Color: N/. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: //
Well packed clayey, medium sands with small shell fragments through out -. SAND; shell fragments, mainly altered for N. -. SAND; medium and fine, clayey; quartz dominates, less occasional shell fragments; Color N/. -. SAND; medium, clayey; shell hash, shells mainly unaltered; color N/). ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: //
-. SAND; medium, clayey; thick shell bed, large fragments, mostly fresh; Color: YR /.-. SAND; similar sands; shell fragments; smaller and fresher near top, more altered near bottom; Color yr /. -. SAND; medium; large altered shells; Color: YR /. -. SAND; medium near top fining to mostly fine sand and clay near bottom. -. SAND; very clayey, fine sand becoming mostly clay near bottom; very occasional small shell fragments < mm. -. CLAY; with small (< mm) shell fragments; Color: yr / ~Possible condensed section? This section is one cycle. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: CL
-. CLAY; fine sand; well packed; small ( mm) shell fragments; ripple filled with fine shell fragments at. ft; alternate from: mainly clay with fine sand to clay. Near bottom more clay Color: Yr /. ft. -. SAND; two thin layers of medium clayey sands with clays; this appears to be offshore; the two thin sand units may be storm deposits Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: CL
.-. SAND; medium, clayey; Color:. Y./. -. SAND; medium; consolidated; shell bed (with altered shells); Color:. Y / to. Y /. -. SAND; fine to medium, clayey; gradually becomes more well compacted occasional shells near top; Color. Y /. -. SAND; fine to medium; less clay, occasional shell fragments mm; Color:. Y /. -. SAND; fine to medium, less clay; Color:. Y /. -. SAND; fine to medium, more clays; large shell fragments;. /. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: CL
-. SAND; medium to coarse; some clay, shell bed, Color: N/.-. SAND; medium, some clay; fewer shell fragments but occasionally large ( cm); alternating between medium to coarse sand and medium sand with more clay; Color: N/ Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: //. ft
-. SAND; medium, rare coarse, well sorted; large altered shell fragments ( cm); occasional thin layers of more clayey sand; Color: N/. -. SAND; medium, clayey; some layers are more sandy; altered shells fragments; Color N/. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: //
-. SAND; medium, clayey; siimilar to the last core; N/ dark gray. -. very fine sandy CLAY to medium to coarse muddy SAND with shell hash ~ medium sand sized; fining up sequence; N/ *.: hard rock contact*. -. SANDSTONE; coarse, muddy; contains a small interval of relatively unconsolidated muddy medium to coarse sand between.-. ft; GY / dark greenish gray Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: //. ft
-. SAND; medium to coarse, gravelly, muddy sand; intervals of sandstone at.-. and.-. ft. -. GRAVEL; Color: GY / dark greenish gray. -. SAND; fine, muddy; uniform core; GY / dark greenish gray. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: //
-. SAND; fine, muddy and gravel beds Color changes. GY / dark green gray.. N/ dark gray.. N/ dark gray Otherwise GY /.-. GRAVEL.-. GRAVEL Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: //. ft
-. SAND; fine, muddy; Color: GY / GY /. -. SAND; medium to coarse, muddy with gravel beds containing weathered shell fragments N /. -. SAND; very fine, muddy, dark gray, very uniform; N/ - N./ Erosional contact *.. -. CLAY; dark green, silty; stiff uniform; Color: GY /. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: //
-. SAND; fine, silty; to sandy silt; laminated black and dark green; N/ - N./ and GY /. -. CLAY; slightly fine sandy silt that quickly grades to a fine sandy clay; weathered shell hash beds at.,.-.,.-.,.-., and. ft; N/ - N./ dark gray. ft. -. CLAY; sandy; indurated; dark green, this is the core catcher GY / dark greenish gray Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: //
-. CLAY; alternating dark green silty firm clay and medium to coarse muddy sand; Color: clay: N/ - GY /; sand: N/ - N/.-. SAND; last coarse sand bed grades to a coarse to very coarse muddy sand, indurated in places, with weathered shell hash and quartz pebbles. Color: N/ - N/. -. SAND; muddy, medium sand (washed in pebbles); Same color.. -. CLAY; grades to clayey silt then silty clay; Color: N/ dark gray Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: //. ft
-. SILT; clayey; Color: N/ very dark gray contact (lithologic and color change at.). - SILT; very fine sandy; becoming muddier at base, difficult to clean mud off this one; N/ gray CL: Checked, the change is from clayey fine sand or sandy clay to very fine sand. However, there is no contact and it does not seem to be an important sequence boundary. The change may merely be variation of clay material supply. It seems still to be the Kirkwood Fm, lower sand aquifer unit. Looking forward to the basal Kirkwood composite confining unit. Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft): Date: // ft
The core was dropped out of barrel and recaptured -. SAND; fine, gray, uniform, burrowed and cross-bedded, fine shell fragments; Color: N /. -. CLAY; silty; laminated, firm, with clayey sand/silt, which are heavily burrowed, laminations, peat at. ft; Color: Y / lower composite confining unit.. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: CL