diff --git a/specs/tools/tilesetProcessing/TilesetMergerSpec.ts b/specs/tools/tilesetProcessing/TilesetMergerSpec.ts
index fb1f459..e341a98 100644
--- a/specs/tools/tilesetProcessing/TilesetMergerSpec.ts
+++ b/specs/tools/tilesetProcessing/TilesetMergerSpec.ts
@@ -220,4 +220,44 @@ describe("TilesetMerger", function () {
     ];
     expect(actualContentUris).toEqual(expectedContentUris);
   });
+
+  it("merges two implicit tilesets into a valid output tileset", async function () {
+    // Regression test for https://github.com/CesiumGS/3d-tiles-tools/issues/157
+    // The input tileset is the 'dummy' implicit tileset that is used for other
+    // specs, and it is used TWICE - this doesn't make sense, but serves the
+    // purpose a spec for merging two implicit tilesets
+    const inputFiles = [
+      Paths.join(
+        SPECS_DATA_BASE_DIRECTORY,
+        "/tilesetProcessing/implicitProcessing"
+      ),
+      Paths.join(
+        SPECS_DATA_BASE_DIRECTORY,
+        "/tilesetProcessing/implicitProcessing"
+      ),
+    ];
+    const outputDirectory = Paths.join(
+      SPECS_DATA_BASE_DIRECTORY,
+      "output/mergeTilesets/mergeImplicit"
+    );
+    const outputFile = Paths.join(outputDirectory, "tileset.json");
+
+    await TilesetOperations.mergeJson(inputFiles, outputFile, overwrite);
+
+    // Ensure that the output directory contains the tileset JSON
+    const actualRelativeFiles =
+      SpecHelpers.collectRelativeFileNames(outputDirectory);
+    expect(actualRelativeFiles.includes("tileset.json")).toBeTrue();
+
+    // Ensure that the root of the resulting tileset has two children,
+    // and none of them defines the 'implicitTiling' (because this is
+    // defined in the roots of the external tilesets)
+    const tilesetJsonBuffer = fs.readFileSync(outputFile);
+    const tileset = JSON.parse(tilesetJsonBuffer.toString());
+    const root = tileset.root;
+    const children = root.children;
+    expect(children.length).toBe(2);
+    expect(children[0].implicitTiling).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(children[1].implicitTiling).toBeUndefined();
+  });
 });
diff --git a/src/tools/tilesetProcessing/TilesetMerger.ts b/src/tools/tilesetProcessing/TilesetMerger.ts
index 79c1fd3..d8f5561 100644
--- a/src/tools/tilesetProcessing/TilesetMerger.ts
+++ b/src/tools/tilesetProcessing/TilesetMerger.ts
@@ -334,7 +334,8 @@ export class TilesetMerger {
   // The following functions are ported from the `merge-tilesets` branch
   // at https://github.com/CesiumGS/3d-tiles-tools/blob/d7e76e59022fc5e5aa4b848730ec9f8f4dea6d4e/tools/lib/mergeTilesets.js
   // with slight modification of 'getChildren' for disambiguation
-  // and updates to compute bounding boxes instead of bounding spheres
+  // and updates to compute bounding boxes instead of bounding spheres,
+  // and a fix for https://github.com/CesiumGS/3d-tiles-tools/issues/157
 
   private static getChildren(
     tilesets: Tileset[],
@@ -360,6 +361,7 @@ export class TilesetMerger {
       };
       delete children[i].children;
       delete children[i].transform;
+      delete children[i].implicitTiling;
     }
     return children;
   }