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  • Usage in publication:
    • Gunpowder granite*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Granite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Knopf, E.B., and Jonas, A.I., 1929, Baltimore County report [Maryland]: Maryland Geological Survey County Report, 420 p.


Summary:

Name Gunpowder granite applied to medium-grained potassic granite that intrudes Glenarm series in Baltimore Co., MD. Contains biotite and muscovite in varying proportions. Assigned to the late Precambrian.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Gunpowder Gneiss
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Publication:

Reinhardt, Juergen, and Crowley, W.P., 1979, Geologic map of the Baltimore East quadrangle, Maryland: Maryland Geological Survey Quadrangle Geologic Map, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000


Summary:

Unit referred to as Gunpowder Gneiss [in agreement with recent State usage]. May be intrusive sill in Rush Brook Member of Loch Raven Schist (Cambrian-Ordovician(?)). Age modified to Ordovician based on 450 m.y. date from Concordia plot.

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


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