Usage:
/Bradshaw Layered Amphibolite of /Baltimore Complex (MD)
[Use of simple lithic terms is preferred (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). Baltimore preoccupied; name formally applied to Baltimore Gneiss by Williams and Darton (1892) in same area.]
Geologic age:
Cambrian(?)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Outcrops along Little Gunpowder Falls on either side of Old Philadelphia Road (MD Route 7) near Bradshaw, White Marsh quadrangle, Baltimore Co., MD (Crowley, 1976).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
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