The Cape May Formation is a geologic formation in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.National Geologic Map Database, Geolex — Unit Summary, Cape May It preserves fossils.
The Cape May is described as "Fine-to-coarse sand, minor silt and clay; yellow, brownish-yellow, reddish-yellow, very pale brown, light gray; minor pebble gravel." It may be massive (without stratification) or stratified.Scott D. Stanford, 2004. Surficial geology of the Camden and Philadelphia quadrangles, Camden, Gloucester, and Burlington counties, New Jersey. New Jersey Geological Survey. Open-file Map OFM 60. Map Scale: 1:24,000.
The Cape May was initially described by Rollin D. Salisbury in 1893 as an unnamed "Fourth Stage of the Yellow Gravel", with the first stage being the Beacon Hill Formation, the second being the Pensauken Formation, and the third being the Jamesburg Formation.Rollin D. Salisbury, Surface Geology Report of Progress, 1893, Geological Survey of New Jersey, Annual Report of the State Geologist for the year 1893, pp. 35-328. The unnamed fourth stage was later named the Cape May by Salisbury.
See also
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in New Jersey Paleontology in New Jersey
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