Usage:
Jones Falls Schist (MD)
Geologic age:
Cambrian(?)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Outcrops along Jones Falls, east of Druid Hill Park between Falls Road and the 28th Street ramps onto Jones Falls Expressway, Baltimore City, Baltimore Co., MD (Crowley, 1976).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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