Upper Maestrichtian to middle Eocene stratigraphy of the New Jersey slope and coastal plain.

Abstract

Five depositional sequences in the coastal plain of New Jersey are correlated with the middle Maestrichtian to middle Eocene record at DSDP Site 605. Between the coastal plain and Site 605, in the Baltimore Canyon Trough, the sequence record is incomplete because an unconformity separates the upper Campanian from the lower Eocene. This unconformity, named the East Coast Sequential Unconformity (ECSU), developed through sequential submarine erosion events which began in latest Campanian time and ended in earliest Eocene time.-from Authors