traprock

This feature gives rise to the common name traprock, which is derived from the Swedish word for step.

Traprock was used to make tools and arrowheads.

The lake is fed by the Traprock River.

The walls are made of rubblestone and multi-colored traprock.

Most photos are from the Traprock Peace Center website.

The traprock's superior ground water filtering qualities make them invaluable to the state's public water supply.

The hard, brittle traprock, very dense but easily crushed, has been a valuable material for building roadbeds since the early 1800's.

The scar along the steep slope had been caused by workmen scooping out traprock and gravel.

A series of smaller, unnamed traprock hills continue from Long Mountain to the eastern end of the range.

The middle layer is composed of volcanic traprock, most visible on the Pocumtuck Ridge.

The traprock covers the eastern slope.

Quarry operations, also a threat, have obliterated several square miles of traprock ridgeline in both Massachusetts and Connecticut.

A small traprock quarry, 0.4 miles (600 m) wide, occupies the northeast side of the mountain, and a suburban development the southwest side.

This article is about Beacon Hill, a traprock landform in Branford, Connecticut.

He is known as the author of numerous books, including a travel series parody published under the pseudonym Walter E. Traprock.

These included a series of travel parodies under the pseudonym of Walter E. Traprock.

Because the traprock ridges generate such varied terrain, they are the home of several plant and animal species that are state-listed or globally rare.

Mark Fitzpatrick, the veterans coalition president, said the overwhelming vote against the idea was no reflection on the young Russians or on Traprock.

The Sleeping Giant, a massive traprock dome formed from the same lava, but with an east-west orientation, looks remarkably like someone reclining.

This year, Zenone Inc., a Massachusetts contracting company, is building a giant traprock wall against the eroding eastern bluff.

The Sierra Club has referred to the entire range in Connecticut as "The Traprock Ridge".

Long Mountain, like much of the Metacomet Ridge, is composed of basalt, also called traprock, a volcanic rock.

(As Walter E. Traprock) (with staged photographs).

At ten, fifteen miles an hour the perpetual train, Iron Council, went north, surrounded by cut, fangs of traprock, for New Crobuzon.

The traprock ridges are a unique geological feature, said Greg McHone, a geologist at Wesleyan University.