Paleocene- Eocene calcareous nannofossils of onshore wells from the coastal plain of New Jersey and Maryland, USA.

Abstract

Paleogene calcareous nannofossils from split spoon cores recovered from five wells along the Coastal Plain of New Jersey and Maryland have been analyzed in order to provide onshore information complementary to that derived from the offshore DSDP Site 605. Hiatuses are more numerous and of greater extent in the onshore sections. At one site at least (Leggett Well), sedimentation may well have been continuous across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary, as it is believed to have been at DSDP Site 605. These various correlations are discussed elsewhere in a companion paper (Olsson and Wise, Leg 93 volume). -from Authors DSDP Site 605 Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary