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| Title: | Map of Exposed and Buried Early Mesozoic Rift Basins/Synrift Rocks of the U.S. Middle Atlantic Continental Margin |
| Authors: | Benson, R.N. |
| Keywords: | Newark Supergroup
Early Mesozoic rift basins
middle Atlantic continental margin
offshore seismic |
| Issue Date: | 1992 |
| Publisher: | Newark, DE: Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware |
| Series/Report no.: | Miscellaneous Map;5 |
| Abstract: | A series of elongate rift basins of early Mesozoic age is exposed in eastern North America in a belt extending from Nova Scotia to South Carolina. The Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic synrift rocks that fill the basins are called the Newark Supergroup comprising continental (fluvial and lacustrine) clastic sedimentary rocks (predominantly colored red) interbedded with basaltic volcanic rocks (Froelich and Olsen, 1985). Similar basins are buried beneath the sediments of the Atlantic Coastal Plain and continental shelf. |
| URI: | http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/handle/19716/4289 |
| Appears in Collections: | Miscellaneous Maps
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