Cretaceous And Tertiary Section, Deep Test Well, Greenwood, Delaware

• Main Author: Talley, J.H.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Newark, DE: Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware 1975
• Subjects: Matawan Formation; Monmouth Formation; unit A; Piney Point Formation; Chesapeake Group; Staytonville unit; Columbia Formation; planktonic foraminifera; lithology; Nc13-3; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/3159

Analyses of drillers' and geophysical logs, cuttings, and 29 core samples from well Nc13-3 near Greenwood, Sussex County, Delaware indicate that the 1500-foot section penetrated by the drill can be divided into seven rock-stratigraphic units: Matawan Formation, Monmouth Formation, unit A, Piney Point Formation, Chesapeake Group (undifferentiated), Staytonville unit, and the Columbia Formation. The rock units are identified on the basis of texture, mineralogy, color, and interpretation of electric and gamma-ray logs. The oldest rocks penetrated are Upper Cretaceous; Tertiary and Quaternary rocks were also encountered. Correlations of the units encountered in the Greenwood test well with subsurface formations in adjacent parts of the Coastal Plain are explored utilizing lithologies, ages, positions in the stratigraphic column, and geophysical characteristics as criteria. Major time boundaries (Cretaceous-Tertiary; Early-Late Paleocene; Paleocene-Eocene; and Eocene-Miocene) are established by a preliminary study of mainly planktonic foraminifera. The Miocene-Pleistocene boundary was determined on changes in lithology across the unconformable contact.