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Bed-Oriented Fracturing in the Lockatong Formation, Newark Basin

Detailed Description

Road cut along Interstate-295 (formerly I-95) near West Trenton, NJ, showing the Lockatong Formation, Newark Basin. The larger fractures in this mudstone rock are generally oriented along the bedding of the low-permeability strata.

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Public Domain.

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