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Geologic Unit: Sweathouse

Usage:

Sweathouse Amphibolite Member of Oella Formation (MD)


Geologic age:

Neoproterozoic and/or Early Cambrian


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type locality: streamcuts along Sweathouse Branch, tributary of Gunpowder Falls, east from its mouth to Mountvista Road, White Marsh quadrangle, Baltimore Co., northeastern MD (Crowley, 1976).


AAPG geologic province:

Piedmont-Blue Ridge province


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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