Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic evolution of the New Jersey Continental Slope and Upper Rise: an integration of borehole data with seismic reflection profiles.

Fifteen intersecting single-channel seismic reflection profiles and fifteen multichannel profiles are integrated with coring and downhole logging data from DSDP Sites 604, 605, 612, and 613 to interpret the stratigraphic framework and depositional history of the Campanian to Pleistocene deposits of the New Jersey Transect (Continental slope and rise). The study area has been the locus of repeated episodes of massive down-slope sediment transport that have created extensive systems of erosional channels and have produced a downslope 'ribbed' geometry for each sequence mapped. Results show that most depositional and erosional features in the study area are equivalent to deposits and stratigraphic gaps previously documented on the adjacent shelf and coastal plain. Interpretation of the sedimentary history is compatible with the Vail model of global sea-level change. -from Authors