At the Ocean View Leg 174AX borehole, 1575 ft (480.06 m) of middle Eocene to Holocene strata was continuously cored with very good recovery (81% total) and a full suite of downhole logs. Ocean View provided a record of middle to upper Miocene sequences that compliments Legs 150X and 174AX drilling at Cape May, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Bethany Beach, Delaware. More importantly, in comparison to other Legs 150X or 174AX boreholes, drilling at Ocean View provides the thickest and stratigraphically most complete record of
Several thick sandy aquifers and silty clay-confining units were recovered at Ocean View, including the Atlantic City 800-foot sand aquifer. By relating these aquifer-confining unit couplets to sequence stratigraphy, we should improve the hydrostratigraphic framework of the region.