-. CLAY; silty, greenish gray and clayey fine sand; Color: Y /. -. SAND; fine-medium, clayey, with sandy clay layers; very abundant broken thin, tiny shells; shell hash at several horizons, heavily burrowed; Color:. y /. -. CLAY; silty, firm; with one inch shell beds; dark green, Color: Y /. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: CL
-. CLAY; mainly dark green silty clay (firm) alternating with less consolidated gray silty to very fine sandy clay (some of which contains shell hash) especially.-. ft; these alternations are very well defined, upper. ft of run disturbed; Colors: Y / very dark gray; sandy clay: N/ d gray. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: MVF
-. CLAY; slightly silty; dark gray with thin interbeds of siltier clay (~cm) and weathered shell hash; fairly big shell fragments at. ft; drilling gives a false laminated appearance; Color= YR / very dark gray Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: MVF. ft
-. CLAY; very dark gray clay and silty clay alternating with gray silt. -. SILT; minor weathered shell material, nice cross-bed; shell hash and erosional contact at base; Color: clay = YR / very dark gray, silt N/ very dark gray. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: MVF
CLAY; same as above, wafer thin gray silt beds, same colors. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: MVF
ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft): Date: // Described by: CF
-. CLAY; firm, very dark gray; with bivalve and gastropod shells; very hard; Color: Y / Sharp lithologic contact. -. CLAY; greenish gray; laminated, firm, whole shells, very hard; Color: Gy / Bioturbated contact, we prefer to place the sequence boundary at. ft rather than at. ft. -. CLAY; bioturbated, firm, very dark gray, sand layer at. ft; Color: Y / Middle shelf - outer shelf clay Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: CL. ft
-. CLAY; very dark gray, some bioturbation; some shell material; Color: Y /. -. CLAY; darker gray, glauconitic; with shall hash; bioturbated, has a near conchoidal fracture Run recoverd. ft. Run ran ft and recovered ~. Upper. ft of Run were assigned to Run. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: MVF
-. CLAY; mainly glauconitic; as above variegated with zones of plain, dark gray clay, also notable shell hash material, especially.. ft; Y / and GY / Run recoverd. ft. Run ran ft and recovered ~. Upper. ft of Run were assigned to Run. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: MVF
-. CLAY; mainly glauconitic; as above variegated, with zones of plain, dark gray clay, also notable shell hash material; Y / very dark gray Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: MVF. ft
-. CLAY; glauconitic, alternating with dark gray clay zones; weathered shell hash at.,. and.-. ft; same colors; core disturbed.-. (fractured). ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: MVF
Contact with glauconitic sand -. CLAY; glauconitic, very dark gray Y / fractured. -. CLAY; glauconite, grading down to glauconite SAND with large weathered shell fragments; individual glauconite grains are B /- G / dark bluish gray to grayish green At., the Oligocene/Miocene (Kirkwood/Jobs Point) contract was encountered marked by change from dark gray clay to coarse grained Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: CL. ft
-. SAND; glauconite; very hard sandstone with abundant shells, some are whole, complete specimens; perhaps weathered; overall color = N. to BG /; black to dark greenish gray; some glauconite rich areas are G / grayish green Glauconite sand quartz sand accounts for ~ % with a clay matrix, heavy burrows are obvious at the top Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: MVF. ft
-. SHELLS; extremely hard shell hash; shells are within a coarse grained sandmatrix, some shells dissolved, others totally lithified; Color: N/. -. SAND; glauconite; coarse; clay rich; Color: G / dark greenish gray. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: CL
-. SAND; glauconite; coarse; clay rich; Color: G / dark greenish gray.-. SANDSTONE; extremely hard, coarse grained; well lithified; Color: N/.-. SAND; glauconite; greenish dark gray, coarse grained, with clay matrix; Color: G / dark greenish gray Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: CL. ft
Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft): Date: // Described by: CL
-. SAND; glauconite and quartz; coarse; firm with clay matrix; shells occur between - ft; obvious bioturbation; Color: N/ Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: CL. ft
-. SAND; glauconite and quartz; coarse; firm with clay matrix; obvious bioturbation; Color: N/; possible seqeunce boundary at ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: CL. ft
-. SAND; glauconite; pebbly, coarse grained; with occasional shells; Color: N/. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: CL
-. SAND; glauconite; coarse; pebbly; or shells; to ft slightly coarser; Color N/ very dark gray;. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: MVF
-. GLAUCONITE SAND; coarse, a few quartz pebbles; shell at. ft; N/ black. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: MVF
Five foot run -. GLAUCONITE SAND; very abundant in quartz; sub-rounded pebbles; overall color N/ and in some areas G / still fairly firm sand; Gray green Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):.. ft Date: // Described by: MVF
-. GLAUCONITE SAND; coarse with abundant rounded quartz pebbles; also minor opaque grains; fairly consolidated; N/ black. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: MVF
No recovery Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft): Date: // Described by: CL
-. GLAUCONITE SAND; medium-coarse, firm, clay matrix with occasional slits; Color: N/ Black Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: CL. ft
-. GLAUCONITE SAND; % quartz; firm, medium-coarse; Color: N/ black.-. GLAUCONITE SAND; with quartz, coarse; shells at base; Color: B /, dark bluish gray ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft): Date: // Described by: CL
-. GLAUCONITE SAND; firm, medium-coarse, clayey, with a few shells; Color: N/.-. GLAUCONITE SAND; quartz; loose, coarse, pebbly, pebbles up to mm; Color: B / dark bluish gray Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: CL. ft
Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft): Date: // Described by: KM, LM
-. GLAUCONITE SAND; medium-coarse ft.-. GLAUCONITE SAND; medium-coarse, quartzose, slightly clayey, occasional quartz pebbles up to mm, small shell fragments, clay plug at base; GY / dark greenish gray Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft): Date: // Described by: KM, LM
GLAUCONITE SAND; medium with some coarse, quartzose, clayey; when fresh, mottled color from green to brown; shell fragment on surface; -. ft is sandier with less clay; dominant color: GY / dark greenish gray some.y. dark grayish brown [Note by SPK: These mottled colors may reflect weathered glauconite in the brownish zones]. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: KGM, LM
-. GLAUCONITE SAND; quartzose; medium-fine, clayey; -. slightly sandier,.-. increased clay, clay content appears high in interbeds and may approach sandy clay e.g.. ft; this material is definitely finer grained than the two runs above; core appears very finely laminated from ~-. ft; no pebbles noted unlike above cores; GY / dark greenish gray. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: KGM, LM
GLAUCONITE SAND; quartzoze, clayey; medium to fine, some of the quartz sand is coarse; appears laminated with brownish sandy clay, distinct brown clay interbeds at.-.,.-.,.-. ft; slightly shelly, whole oyster at. ft; color - dominantly GY / dark greenish gray with.y / very dark grayish brown. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: KGM, LM
Beautiful core GLAUCONITE SAND; quartzoze; medium to fine, very clayey, some shell debris; thin laminations of brown and green clay; color: GY / dark greenish gray, with subordinate.y / very dark grayish brown Possible interpretation:. ( coarse glauconite late HST m-c glauconite ( m glauconite early Hst ( medium to fine glauconite with clay condensed section Sequence Boundary very coarse to coarse Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: KGM, LM. ft
Beautiful core! Coarsening upward succession from medium to very coarse glauconite -. GLAUCONITE SAND; quartz; very coarse up to - mm; occasional altered small shell fragments.-. GLAUCONITE SAND; glauconite and coarse quartz mm; altered shell fragments, bright green to black become light green from shells.- GLAUCONITE SAND; medium occasional brown clay layers mm thick; very weathered shell fragments, some large shell fragments at. and. ft; coarsing upwards, by bottom fine to medium glauconite sand, occasional thin clayey intervals - GLAUCONITE SAND; becoming more clayey with depth; begins fine to medium glauconite sand with clay and changes to clayey fine/medium glauconite sand. Color: variable from G / dark green to light green (due to shells mixing with sands) Clays. Y / burnt umbra -. SAND; thin coarse sand layer, clayey fine to medium glauconite.-. SAND; clay patches and then layers cm; few hightly altered shell layers;. Y / Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: SP. ft
. -. GLAUCONITE SAND; fine to medium; medium to occasional coarse quartz; large shells at. and. ft; dark green, black speckled; very occasional brown clay patches; core partly dissolved; color: dark green GY /.-. GLAUCONITE SAND; clayey fine, fine to medium quartz, occasional brown clay layers <. cm thick; Color: dark green GY /. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: SP
-. GLAUCONITE SAND; quartose; coarse to very coarse, grades down to:. -. GLAUCONITE SAND; quartose; coarse. -. GLAUCONITE SAND; quartose; coarse to medium qtz; with some weathered shell. -. CLAY; sandy clay to clayey glauconite sand. -. GLAUCONITE SAND; quartzose; clayey medium Clearly a coarsening upward succession from -. ft. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: KGM
GLAUCONITE SAND; quartzose, shelly; fine to coarse quartz, glauconite is mostly fine to medium; Qtz m-c; shells are weathered;.-. and -. ft becomes very indurated; GY / dark greenish gray. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: KGM
. ft Contact: Numerous hand-held photos + T close ups -. GLAUCONITE SAND; indurated, very shelly, clayey glauconite sand to glauconitic sandy clay. -. CLAY; laminated glauconitic clay, shelly; laminations of glauconite rich and clay rich layers, glauconite laminations are typically ~. cm thick, clay laminations are thicker - cm; Y / olive gray The contact is a distinct change in ) color (to lighter - olive gray), ) grain size (sand to clay), ) stratification (massive to laminated); shells above and below, but below doesn t have large shells, possible interpretation: change from inner (coarse quartz sand) and middle neritic (medium quartz-glauconoite sand) to middle to outer neritic glauonite clays This unit could be equivalent to lower Oligocene clays at Island Beach Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: KGM
CLAY; massive, occasional cross laminae of fine sand with some glauconite; sand filled burrows occasionally observed; occasional thin shell beds with thin-walled mollusks; at.-. ft some granules with silty fine sand; very burrowed interval; dark olive gray (Y /).. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: PJS, HK
-. SILT; shelly; massive silt to clay; burrowed; dark olive gray, Y /. -. GLAUCONITE SAND; very shelly; clayey; appears glauconite is the dominant mineral; the whole section is indurated in spots; Y /-/ olive gray. ft - some compressed core and recovery is probably greater. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: KGM, PJS,HK
CLAY; slightly sandy, silty; glauconitic (~%); massive to burrowed; some sand filled burrows are quite indurated in places; foraminifera are visible; apparent laminations are probably drilling chatter; as core dries we notice faint apparent laminations of slightly lighter darker clay; maybe drying burrows; Y / dark olive gray. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: KGM, PJS, HK
CLAY; silt and fine sand, up to % glauconite; laminated; trace fossils (burrowing); finer sands are cross laminated; color: Y / dark olive gray. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: SP
. -. SAND; fine; ~-% glauconite; finely laminated. -. CLAY; fine sandy; laminated at top cm; fines downward to very fine, laminated; occasional glauconite. -. CLAY; still very sandy; becoming more sandy with depth; occasional glauconite. -. CLAY; becoming more silty; less sand (very fine); evidence of burrowing; burrows appear to be filled by sand; finely laminated throughout. -. CLAY; similar to above, however absence of burrowing. -. CLAY; similar to above but with occasional very thin laminations of sand. -. CLAY; similar to above; occasional small shell fragments and foraminifers and other fossils abundant; color: throughout - Y / dark olive gray. Note: Photos above did not take. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: SP
.-. SILT; clayey silt; frequent forams; color: brown. Y /. -. SILT; foraminifer layer; probable condensed section. -. SILT; continuation of brown clayey silt, frequent foraminifers. -. SILT; brown clayey; with increasing glauconitic sands, increasing fine sand with depth; color: brown. Y /. ft. -. SHELL; large shell frag. -. SHELL; continuation of above Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: SP
. -. GLAUCONITE SAND; continuous; clayey, fine; with some silt and clay; color brown. Y /. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth:. Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: SP
SAND; fine, clayey; beautiful large burrows filled with glauconite from.-. and.-. ft; color: brown. Y / frequency of burrows suggest a condensed section. ft Cape May Core # Start depth:. Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: SP
. -. SAND; fine, clayey; burrows filled with fine glauconite sand; color: brown. Y /. -. SAND; very fine quartz, glauconitic %; clayey; occassional burrows; laminations observed. -. SAND; fine; quartz; very hard consolidated, less clay; glauconite sand up to % possible condensed section. -. SAND; return to hard but not consolidated fine clayey sands Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft.):. Date: // Described by: SP. ft
. -. SAND; similar to above; fine, clayey; laminated; abundant benthic foraminifers Head Driller Don Queen is unsure he got entire section. Going down for another try at this run. Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: SP. ft
GLAUCONITIC CLAY; silty; heavily burrowed, shark tooth; color: N/ black. ft Cape May Core # Start depth: Stop depth:. Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: CL
-. GLAUCONITE CLAY; same as above, with pyrite nodules; note: sandy clay % alt, with laminations of clay; Color: N/ black. ft Cape May Core # Start depth:. Stop depth: Recovery (ft):. Date: // Described by: CL