Named on legend of small scale geologic map of gneiss domes in Howard and Baltimore Cos. MD. Quartzo-feldspathic rocks in the Laurel belt are divided into Leakin Park and Ilchester Gneiss. No description of either unit is given and neither are they mentioned elsewhere. General age of early to middle Paleozoic listed.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
Though Hopson (1964) assigned the quartzo-feldspathic rocks in the Laurel belt to two formations, the Ilchester Gneiss and the Leakin Park Gneiss, these rocks are here mapped as one continuous unit intrusive into the Baltimore Mafic Complex and overlying rocks. The formal name Cold Spring Gneiss is proposed.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
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