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Bellvale Sandstone (NJDbv;6)

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Lithology

Sandstone

Shale

Siltstone

Geologic Age

Middle Devonian (394.5 Ma – 384.3 Ma ago)

Geologic Unit Label

Dbv

(Bellvale Flags of Darton, 1894; Willard, 1937) - Upper beds are grayish-red to grayish-purple sandstone containing quartz pebbles as large as 3 cm (1.2 in) in diameter. Lower beds are light-olive-gray- to yellowish-gray- and greenish-black-weathering, medium-gray to medium-bluish-gray very thin to very thick bedded siltstone and sandstone cross-bedded, graded and interbedded with black to dark-gray shale that is locally fossiliferous. More sandstone in upper beds becomes finer downward. Lower contact conformable and placed where beds thicken and volume of shale and siltstone are about equal. The unit is 535 to 610 m (1,750-2,000 ft) thick.

— USGS

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