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Baltimore Gabbro
Stratigraphic range: Late Precambrian
TypeIgneous
Location
RegionPiedmont of Maryland
ExtentHoward and Baltimore Counties
Type section
Named forBaltimore, Maryland
Named byG. H. Williams 1866

Baltimore Gabbro Complex is a hypersthene gabbro with subordinate amounts of olivine gabbro, norite, anorthositic gabbro, and pyroxenite. Igneous minerals and textures are well preserved in some rocks, and other rocks exhibit varying degrees of alteration and recrystallization with a new metamorphic mineral assemblage.[1]

  1. ^ "USGS Baltimore Gabbro Complex". Retrieved 14 August 2014.

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