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  • Usage in publication:
    • Carroll Gneiss Member
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Gneiss
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Crowley, W.P., 1976, The geology of the crystalline rocks near Baltimore and its bearing on the evolution of the eastern Maryland Piedmont: Maryland Geological Survey Report of Investigations, no. 27, 40 p.


Summary:

Named as a member of James Run Formation. Named for Carroll Park, Baltimore, MD. Consists of fine- to medium-grained biotite-quartz-plagioclase gneiss. Overlies(?) or is in thrust contact with Hollofield Layered Ultramafite (Baltimore Mafic Complex) in east-west anticline; interfingers with Druid Hill Amphibolite Gneiss Member of James Run Formation or Jones Falls Schist in northeast-southwest syncline. Age is Cambrian(?).

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


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