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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