Stratigraphic range: Precambrian, Cambrian, or Ordovician
Polished slab of the marble from Cockeysville. Width of slab inside black border is approximately 10.7 cm.
Type
metamorphic
Unit of
Glenarm Supergroup
Underlies
Wissahickon Formation
Overlies
Setters Formation
Thickness
about 750 feet[1]
Lithology
Primary
marble
Location
Region
Piedmont of Maryland
Type section
Named for
Cockeysville, Maryland
Named by
Williams and Darton, 1892[2]
The Cockeysville Marble is a Precambrian, Cambrian, or Ordovician marble formation in Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Howard Counties, Maryland. It is described as a predominantly metadolomite, calc-schist, and calcite marble, with calc-gneiss and calc-silicate marble being widespread but minor.[1]
Sample of Massive Metadolostone Member of Cockeysville Marble, from old quarry near Lower Dam of Loch Raven Reservoir, Baltimore County, Maryland
The extent of this formation was originally mapped in 1892[2] within Baltimore County.
^ abGeologic Map of Maryland, 1968. Cleaves, E. T., Edwards, J. Jr., and Glaser, J. D. Maryland Geological Survey. Scale 1:250,000.
^ abWilliams, G.H., and Darton, N.H., 1892, Geologic map of Baltimore and vicinity: U.S. Geological Survey, Map to accompany "Guide to Baltimore".
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