Hardyston Quartzite

The Cambrian Hardyston Formation or Hardyston Quartzite is a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Hardyston Quartzite
Stratigraphic range: Cambrian
Typesedimentary
UnderliesKittatinny Supergroup and Leithsville Formation
OverliesWissahickon Formation
Lithology
Primaryquartzite
Otherlimestone, shale, conglomerate
Location
RegionAppalachian Basin
ExtentPennsylvania, New Jersey
Type section
Named forHardyston Township, New Jersey
Named byWolff and Brooks, 1898

It was originally described by Wolff and Brooks in 1898,[1] where two outcrops in Hardyston Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, were described. They originally named it the Hardistonville quartzite, but the name was later changed by Kummel and Weller in 1901 to Hardiston quartzite,[2] and changed again by the same authors a year later to Hardyston quartzite.[3]

Description

Richard Dalton described the Hardyston Formation in 1989[4] as having a varying lithology. It is composed of a vitreous, light pink, steel gray or brown, locally arkosic, fine to coarse-grained, resistant quartzite. Pebble conglomerate is common at the base of the formation. Locally, where the unit is less than 10 ft thick, it is a fine- to medium-grained, gray, pyritic quartzite, grading into a dark-gray dolomitic sandstone.

Stratigraphy

The Hardyston unconformably overlies Precambrian crystalline basement rocks where it was deposited on an irregular surface and fills only the troughs or depressions. It gradationally underlies the Leithsville Formation of the Kittatinny Supergroup.[4]

Miller and Myers extended the formation into Pennsylvania in 1939,[5] where it underlies the Tomstown formation.

Notable Outcrops

Fossils

Trilobites have been found in the calcareous sandstone beds of the formation.[2] One genus is Olenellus.[1]

Age

Relative age dating places the Hardyston in the Early Cambrian.

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References
  1. Wolff, J.E., and Brooks, A.H., 1898, The age of the Franklin white limestone of Sussex County, New Jersey, IN Walcott, C.D., Eighteenth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1896–1897; Part II, Papers chiefly of a theoretical nature: U.S. Geological Survey Annual Report, 18, pt. 2, p. 425-457.
  2. Kummel, H.B., and Weller, Stuart, 1901, Paleozoic limestones of the Kittatinny Valley, New Jersey: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 12, p. 147-164.
  3. Kummel, H.B., and Weller, Stuart, 1902, The rocks of the Green Pond Mountain region: New Jersey Geological Survey Annual Report of the State Geologist, 1901, p. 1-51.
  4. Dalton, Richard, 1989, Stratigraphy of the "Kittatinny Limestone", IN Grossman, I.G., ed., Paleozoic geology of the Kittatinny Valley and southwest Highlands area, New Jersey; field guide and proceedings: Geological Association of New Jersey Annual Field Conference, 6th Annual Meeting, October 20–21, 1989, v. 6, p. 59-94. (Table of Contents)
  5. Miller, B.L., and Myers, P.B., 1939, Hardyston formation, IN Miller, B.L., and others, Northampton County, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Geological Survey County Report, 4th series, no. 48, p. 206-223.
  6. MacLachlan, D. B., Buckwalter, T. V. and McLaughlin, D. B. (1975), Geology and mineral resources of the Sinking Spring 7​1⁄2-minute quadrangle, Berks and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 4th ser., Atlas 177d, 228 p.
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