USGS - science for a changing world

Mineral Resources On-Line Spatial Data

Mineral Resources > Online Spatial Data > Geology > by state > New Jersey

Pyroxene Granite

Pyroxene Granite - Gray- to buff- or white-weathering, greenish-gray, medium- to coarse-grained, massive, gneissoid to indistinctly foliated granite containing mesoperthite to microantiperthite, quartz, oligoclase, and clinopyroxene. Common accessory minerals include titanite, magnetite, apatite, and trace amounts of pyrite. Some phases are monzonite, quartz monzodiorite, or granodiorite. Locally includes small bodies of amphibolite not shown on map.
StateNew Jersey
NamePyroxene Granite
Geologic ageMiddle Proterozoic
Original map labelYpg
CommentsLake Hopatcong Intrusive Suite (Middle Proterozoic) (Drake and Volkert, 1991)
Primary rock typegranite
Secondary rock typemonzonite
Other rock typesquartz monzodiorite; granodiorite; amphibolite
Lithologic constituents
Major
Igneous > Plutonic > Granitic > GraniteGray- to buff- or white-weathering, greenish-gray, medium- to coarse-grained, massive, gneissoid to indistinctly foliated granite containing mesoperthite to microantiperthite, quartz, oligoclase, and clinopyroxene. Common accessory minerals include titanite, magnetite, apatite, and trace amounts of pyrite.
Minor
Igneous > Plutonic > Granitic > Granodiorite
Igneous > Plutonic > Dioritic > Quartz-monzodiorite
Igneous > Plutonic > Syenitic > Monzonite
Incidental
Metamorphic > AmphiboliteLocally includes small bodies of amphibolite not shown on map.
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.
Drake, A.A., Jr., and Volkert, R.A., 1991, The Lake Hopatcong Intrusive Suite (Middle Proterozoic) of the New Jersey Highlands, in Drake, A.A., Jr., ed., Contributions to New Jersey geology: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1952, p. A1-A9.
Geographic coverageHunterdon - Morris - Passaic - Sussex - Warren

Show this information as [XML]

AccessibilityFOIAPrivacyPolicies and Notices

Take Pride in America logoUSA.gov logoU.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://mrdata.usgs.gov/geology/state/sgmc-unit.php?unit=NJYpg;11
Page Contact Information: Peter Schweitzer