Structural Measurement Atlas
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New Jersey strike and dip data

7,797 structural measurements in New Jersey, digitized from 142 published geologic maps across 3 sources. Every row carries its azimuth, inclination, measurement type, location confidence and the citation of the map it came from.

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What kinds of measurement

The Atlas separates planar structures, recorded as a strike and dip, from linear ones, recorded as a trend and plunge. This is what New Jersey holds:

Measurement typeGeometryMeasurementsShare
Bedding Planar — strike and dip 3,16641%
Lineation (mineral, stretching) Linear — trend and plunge 1,94125%
Cleavage Planar — strike and dip 1,80723%
Joint Planar — strike and dip 3474%
Foliation Planar — strike and dip 1712%
Other Planar — strike and dip 1182%
Vein / dike Planar — strike and dip 971%
Fold hinge / axis Linear — trend and plunge 941%
Fault plane Planar — strike and dip 37<1%
Slickenline Linear — trend and plunge 19<1%

Where the data comes from

Each source is a survey, agency or program whose published mapping was harvested and reconciled into one schema. Rows are published only where the source's terms permit redistribution.

SourceMeasurementsShare
NPS GRI parks 7,58097%
USGS data releases · MRDS 1302%
NGMDB legacy quads 871%

Most-measured published maps

The individual quadrangles and data releases contributing the most measurements in New Jersey. The full citation for every map behind a selection ships in the sources.csv of any export.

Published mapYearScaleMeasurements
adapted from: Drake, Avery Ala Jr., and Monteverde, Donald H., 1992, Bedrock Geologic Map of the Branchville Quadrangle, Sussex County, New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-1700, scale 1:24,0002021 240002,045
adapted from: Drake, Avery Ala Jr., 1992, Bedrock Geologic Map of the Newton West Quadrangle, Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-1703, scale 1:24,0002021 240001,611
adapted from: Monteverde, Donald H., 1992, Bedrock Geologic Map of the Sussex County, New Jersey portions of the Culvers Gap and Lake Maskenozha Quadrangles: New Jersey Geological Survey, Geologic Map Series GMS 92-1, scale 1:24,0002021 240001,212
adapted from: Drake, Avery Ala Jr., and Lyttle, Peter T., 1985, Geologic Map of the Blairstown Quadrangle, Warren County, New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-1585, scale 1:24,0002021 240001,079
adapted from: Alvord, Donald C., and Drake, Avery Ala Jr., 1971, Geologic Map of the Bushkill Quadrangle, Pennsylvania and New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-908, scale 1:24,0002021 24000641
adapted from: Drake, A.A., Epstein, J.B., and Aaron, J.M., 1969, Geologic Map and Sections of Parts of the Portland and Belvidere Quadrangles, New Jersey and Pennsylvania: U.S. Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Geologic Investigations Map I-552, scale 1:24,0002021 24000389
adapted from: Drake, A.A., Jr., Kastelic, R.L., Jr., and Lyttle, P.T., 1985, Geologic Map of the Eastern Parts of the Belvidere and Portland Quadrangles, Warren County, New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Geologic Investigations Map I-1530, scale 1:24,0002021 24000282
adapted from: Witte, R.W., and Epstein, J.B., 2012, Surficial Geologic Map of the Flatbrookville Quadrangle, Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey, and Pike and Monroe Counties, Pennsylvania: New Jersey Geological Survey, Geologic Map Series GMS 12-1, scale 1:24,0002021 2400097
Quaternary geologic map of the Hudson River 4 degrees x 6 degrees quadrangle, United States and Canada1992 1:1,000,00087
adapted from: Witte, R.W., 2008, Surficial Geologic Map of the Branchville Quadrangle, Sussex County, New Jersey: New Jersey Geological Survey, Geologic Map Series GMS 08-2, scale 1:24,0002021 2400063
adapted from: Witte, R.W., 2013, Surficial Geologic Map of the Port Jervis South Quadrangle, Sussex County, New Jersey, and Pike County, Pennsylvania: New Jersey Geological Survey, Open-file Map OFM 99, scale 1:24,0002021 2400049
adapted from: Witte, R.W., 2017, Surficial Geologic Map of Part of the Bushkill Quadrangle, Warren County, New Jersey and Monroe Counties, Pennsylvania: New Jersey Geological Survey, Open-file Map OFM 112, scale 1:24,0002021 2400029
adapted from: Witte, R.W., and Epstein, J.B., 2005, Surficial Geologic Map of the Culvers Gap Quadrangle, Sussex County, New Jersey: New Jersey Geological Survey, Geologic Map Series GMS 04-1, scale 1:24,0002021 2400029
adapted from: Epstein, Jack B., 1973, Geologic Map of the Stroudsburg Quadrangle, Pennsylvania and New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-1047, scale 1:24,0002021 2400025
adapted from: Witte, R.W., 2012, Quaternary Geology and Geologic Material Resources of the Newton West Quadrangle, Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey: New Jersey Geological Survey, Open-file Map OFM90, scale 1:24,0002021 2400011

Most-measured map units

Where a source recorded the geologic unit a measurement was taken on, the Atlas keeps it. These are the units carrying the most measurements in New Jersey.

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