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- Usage in publication:
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- Gunpowder granite*
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Granite
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
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).
- Usage in publication:
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- Gunpowder Gneiss
- Modifications:
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- Age modified
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
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).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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