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Basalt-clast Conglomerate

Basalt-clast Conglomerate - Dark to very-dark-gray conglomerate with clasts mostly of sub-angular to subrounded greenish-black basalt cobbles and boulders. Other clasts (about 10 to 15%) are pebbles to boulders of hornblende granite with pink feldspar. Matrix is dark-pinkish-gray arkosic sand. Locally onlaps the Hook Mountain Basalt along the Ramapo Fault in northeast part of map area. Maximum thickness of unit unknown.
StateNew Jersey
NameBasalt-clast Conglomerate
Geologic ageLower Jurassic
Original map labelJc
CommentsNewark Supergroup, Brunswick Group (Lyttle and Epstein, 1987).
Primary rock typeconglomerate
Secondary rock typearkose
Other rock types
Lithologic constituents
Major
Sedimentary > Clastic > Conglomerate (Bed)Dark to very-dark-gray conglomerate with clasts mostly of sub-angular to subrounded greenish-black basalt cobbles and boulders. Other clasts (about 10 to 15%) are pebbles to boulders of hornblende granite with pink feldspar. Matrix is dark-pinkish-gray arkosic sand.
Minor
Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone > Arkose (Bed)Matrix is dark-pinkish-gray arkosic sand
Map references
Dalton, R. F., Herman, G. C., Monteverde, D. H., Pristas, R. S., Sugarman, P. J., Volkert, R. A., 1999, New Jersey Department Of Environmental Protection, Bedrock Geology and Topographic Base Maps of New Jersey: New Jersey Geological Survey CD Series CD 00-1; ARC/INFO (v. 7.1) export file: geology.e00, scale 1:100,000, unit description files: cslegend.pdf and nlegend.pdf, metadata: metast.pdf.
Unit references
Dalton, R. F., Herman, G. C., Monteverde, D. H., Pristas, R. S., Sugarman, P. J., Volkert, R. A., 1999, New Jersey Department Of Environmental Protection, Bedrock Geology and Topographic Base Maps of New Jersey: New Jersey Geological Survey CD Series CD 00-1; ARC/INFO (v. 7.1) export file: geology.e00, scale 1:100,000, unit description files: cslegend.pdf and nlegend.pdf, metadata: metast.pdf.
Drake, Avery A. Jr.,Volkert, Richard, A., Monteverde, Donald H., Herman, Gregory C., Houghton,Hugh F., Parker, Ronald A., and Dalton, Richard F., 1996, Bedrock Geologic Map of Northern New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellanenous Investigations Map I-2540-A, scale 1 to 100,000, 4 cross sections, 2 sheets, size 56x40; 58x41.
Lyttle, P.T., and Epstein, J.B., 1987, Geologic map of the Newark 1 x 2 degree quadrangle, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1715, scale 1:250,00.
Geographic coverageMorris

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