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Setters Formation
Stratigraphic range: late Precambrian
Outcrop of Setters Formation along Marriottsville Road, Baltimore County
Typemetamorphic
Unit ofGlenarm Group
UnderliesCockeysville Marble
OverliesBaltimore Gneiss
Lithology
PrimaryMica-schist
OtherMuscovite-gneiss and quartzite
Location
RegionPiedmont of eastern North America
Country United States
ExtentMaryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware

The Setters Formation is a geological formation that is located in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware in the United States. The formation is metamorphic and consists of a complex suite of schist, gneiss, and quartzite.

Gallery

  • Setters Formation showing schist with tourmaline or hornblende crystals on the foliation plane Setters Formation showing schist with tourmaline or hornblende crystals on the foliation plane

References

  1. Crowley, William P.; Cleaves, Emery T. (1974). Geologic map of the Towson Quadrangle, Maryland (Map). 1:24000. Maryland Geological Survey.
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