Trap Rock Industries

Producer in Hunterdon county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Stone, Crushed/Broken
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021832
MRDS ID DE01449
Record type Site
Current site name Trap Rock Industries
Alternate or previous names Delaware

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.95904, 40.3839 (WGS84)
Elevation 55

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hunterdon(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Stockton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Trenton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Delaware-Musconetcong(hydrologic unit)

Upper Delaware(hydrologic accounting unit)

Delaware-Mid Atlantic Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Jersey Hunterdon

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Diabase Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Rock unit name Diabase
    Rock description Diabase
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Triassic
    Chronological age 180
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.95904, 40.3839

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1897
Year of last production 1985

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Trap Rock Industries

Comments on development

  • IN 1897 CALLED BARBOUR & IRELAND

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FIELD OBSERVATION, 1982.

  • Deposit

    KUMMEL, H.B. 1897, THE NEWARK SYSTEM IN SMOCK, JOHN C. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST 1897.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1985 Simonds, Raymond E. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.