The Leg 174AX Ancora borehole continuously cored 693.82 ft (211.48 m) in Hole A between the surface and 759 ft (231.34 m; 91.4% recovery), and 591.48 ft (180.28 m) in Hole B between 543 ft (165.55 m) and a TD of 1170 ft (356.71 m) with remarkable recovery (92.7% total). At the Ancora Site, we recovered the oldest sediments cored by the New Jersey Coastal Plain Drilling Project, including several Cenomanian sequences for the first time. Otherwise, Cenomanian through Eocene strata record sequences similar to those in the Bass River borehole (Miller, Sugarman, Browning, et al., 1998). These two sites together, thus, provide an updip (Ancora) to downdip (Bass River) transect designed to recover, identify, and date Upper Cretaceous sequences, to obtain eustatic estimates from these sequences, and to evaluate facies relationships within sequences. This updip-downdip pair also addresses important issues in local hydrogeology by recovering major aquifer units within the Magothy, Englishtown, Mount Laurel, and Kirkwood-Cohansey Formations. In addition, the Ancora borehole recovered several critical events in Earth history: (1) a remarkably thick section representing the LPTM contains an intriguing interval of convoluted bedding; (2) the lowermost Paleocene section is the thickest found to date in New Jersey, providing an excellent opportunity to assess the recovery of marine microorganisms from the terminal Cretaceous extinction event and its relationship with global sea-level change; (3) the Cenomanian-Turonian section recovered the equivalent to the lowermost Turonian Bonarelli bed that is complimentary to the coeval section at Bass River. Thus, the Ancora section provides an excellent record of global changes in sea level, climate, and the carbon system during the "Greenhouse World" of the Late Cretaceous to Eocene.