Shawangunk Formation

Shawangunk Formation (Mather, 1840; Epstein and Epstein, 1972) - Upper part is medium- to medium-dark-gray, or dark-greenish-gray, medium- to thick-bedded sandstone and pebble conglomerate having well rounded grains, some of which are limonite stained. Conglomerate consists of matrix-supported quartz and subordinate shale pebbles as long as 5 cm (2 in.) in poorly to well-sorted, planar tabular to trough crossbedded sandstone. Local black to dark-greenish-gray, thin-bedded shale near upper contact. Middle part, occurring in southwest and sporadically in northeast, is light- to medium-dark-gray, greenish-gray, interbedded thin- to medium-bedded, planar tabular to trough cross-bedded shale and sandstone. Grains are well rounded and moderately to well sorted. Contains sparse graphite flakes. Lower part is light- to medium-gray to light-olive-gray, thin- to thick-bedded quartz and feldspathic sandstone, quartzite, and quartz-pebble conglomerate, which is matrix-supported, poorly to well sorted, cross to planar bedded. Clasts are primarily quartz and sparse dark-gray argillite and black chert. Sandstone is feldspathic and locally approaches an arkose in compostion. Lower contact unconformable and, at places, is a fault of small displacement. Thickness approximately 427 m (1,400 ft).