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Areas pertaining to Monmouth County, NJ are in
yellow
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Era |
Period |
Sub-period |
Epoch |
Age |
Ma |
Intervals, My |
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Holocene |
0.01 |
0.01 |
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Quaternary |
Pleistocene |
1.64 |
1.63 |
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Piacenzian |
3.4 |
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Pliocene |
Zanclian |
5.2 |
3.6 |
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Messinian |
6.7 |
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Tortonian |
10.4 |
5.2 |
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Serravallian |
14.2 |
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Miocene |
Langhian |
16.3 |
5.9 |
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Burdigalian |
21.5 |
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Cenozoic |
Tertiary |
Neogene |
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Aquitanian |
23.3 |
7 |
22 |
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Chattian |
29.3 |
6 |
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Oligocene |
Rupelian |
35.4 |
6.1 |
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Priabonian |
38.6 |
3.2 |
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Bartonian |
42.1 |
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Eocene |
Lutetian |
50 |
11.4 |
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Ypresian |
56.5 |
6.5 |
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Thanetian |
60.5 |
4 |
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Paleogene |
Paleocene |
Danian |
65 |
4.5 |
42 |
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Maastrichtian |
71.3 |
6.3 |
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Campanian |
83.5 |
12.2 |
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Upper/ |
Santonian |
85.8 |
2.3 |
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Late |
Coniacian |
89.9 |
4.1 |
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Turonian |
93.5 |
3.6 |
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Mesozic |
Cretaceous |
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Cenomanian |
98.9 |
5.4 |
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Albian |
112.2 |
13.3 |
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Aptian |
121 |
8.8 |
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Lower/ |
Barremian |
127 |
6 |
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Early |
Hauterivian |
132 |
5 |
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Valanginian |
137 |
5 |
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Berriasian |
144.2 |
7.2 |
79.2 |
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