Skunnemunk Conglomerate | |
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![]() Conglomerate rock typical of Schunemunk Mountain, New York. | |
Type | Geological formation |
Unit of | Green Pond Outlier |
Overlies | Bellvale Sandstone |
Thickness | About 3,000 ft. [1] |
Lithology | |
Primary | Conglomerate, Sandstone |
Location | |
Extent | New Jersey, New York |
The Skunnemunk Conglomerate (also spelled Schunemunk) is a mapped bedrock unit in New Jersey and New York from the Middle Devonian period. [1] It forms the resistant ridge of Schunemunk Mountain in New York and Bearfort Mountain in New Jersey. [2]
The Skunnemunk is a Middle Devonian, grayish-purple to grayish-red, thin to very thick-bedded, locally cross–bedded, conglomerate and sandstone containing clasts of white vein quartz, red and green quartzite and sandstone, red and gray chert, and red shale. [1] It is a classic Puddingstone. Pieces of the conglomerate are easy to recognize and have been found in glacial deposits throughout the lower Hudson Valley region. [2]