Soren

S. SURVEY

Water-Resources Investigations 77-34 Open- Report

Prepared in cooperation with the

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

February 1978

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

D.

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

W. A. Radlinski Director

For additional information write to:

U.S. Survey 5 Aerial Way

New York 11791

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CONTENTS

Conversion factors and abbreviations Abstract.

Subsurface

Cretaceous Raritan Formation

Sand member member ....

Jameco Gravel.

Pleistocene Surficial

in Contour maps of formation surfaces References cited ........ .

ILLUSTRATIONS

1 and

1 Location of , N.Y and

2. Hudson River(?) diversion through Queens County and course alinement with Hudson Channel and Canyon in

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5 6 7 8 8 8

10 10 10 12

12 15 16

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the continental shelf... . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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Plate 1. A.

2.

feet miles (mi)

B

A-F.

G.

locations of selected wells in

Selected sections in

Subsurface maps of

Bedrock surface B Sand Member surface

member surface D surface E Jameco Gravel surface F. Gardiners surface

surface Jameco Gravel

FACTORS FOR CONVERTING ENGLISH UNITS TO INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM (SI) UNITS

0.3048 1.609

Flow

.06309

meters (m) kilometers (km)

liters per second

million gallons per day (Mgal/d)

cubic meters per second /s)

feet per mile (ft/mi) .1894 meters per kilometer (m/km)

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ABSTRACT

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which with

The Precambrian faulted tion

The The strike of the the surface about of the near the 1,100 ft below sea the

In prior Suter and others,

Cretaceous strata. Perlmutter that the

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not ft below

and descends to 800 ft

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of the mem­county

marine erosion of uppermost Monmouth seems to have occurred there

in came pumpage from all

of Environmental Con­commun., avail-

servation 1973 5, pumpage

able for the pumpage from the to have increased to more than half

in southern it is well confined

in overlain

the

oral t

unit pump age

in the of

, at and near The (Soren, 1971

water in the unit is

Jameco is section D-D')

Jameco sediments on Island The Jameco otherwise uncertain. The unit has been believed to be of Kansan or Illinoian however, the most recent estimate of the formation' is that it is Illinoian

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Jameco boulders

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sand and well drillers.

Jameco beds do not Jameco surface

Laurelton the Belle Harbor of the

Jameco Because the

Formation-Matawan undif between these

in the Jameco

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com­in

Conservation written commun 1974).

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he the main Connecticut Rivers

the west end

)

P·

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map of the surface of in 2G; of 2A-2D,

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1

u

Sub-bot

J ion Nassau and south-

Econ . 54,

Perlmutter N M., and Todd Correlation and Foraminifera of the Honmouth r:n~•cc:""'c') Island, York U . Geol P· 8

Schlee John, 1973, Atlantic continental shelf and slope of the United States--sediment texture of the northeastern U.S Geol.

Soren,

Prof 529-L 64 p 6

and conditions in

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York, New York: U.S Geol. 39 p.' 2

A C , Slichter Horton E. 1906, New York U S Geol

Wallace, and Perlmutter formations and

Water Power and Control Comm.

Isaiah resources of

44 394 p

and Island,

1954, Foraminifera and of the Gardiners Island New York: U Geol.

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Williams, . J 1976 , shallow subbottom structure, and sediments of the Atlantic inner continental shelf off Island, New York U.S. of Coastal Eng. Researc.h Center Tec.h. Paper 76-2, 123 p.

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