Cockeysville Marble

Cockeysville Marble
Stratigraphic range: Precambrian, Cambrian, or Ordovician
Polished slab of the marble from Cockeysville. Width of slab inside black border is approximately 10.7 cm.
Typemetamorphic
Unit ofGlenarm Supergroup
UnderliesWissahickon Formation
OverliesSetters Formation
Thicknessabout 750 feet[1]
Lithology
Primarymarble
Location
RegionPiedmont of Maryland
Type section
Named forCockeysville, Maryland
Named byWilliams 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.

  1. ^ a b Geologic Map of Maryland, 1968. Cleaves, E. T., Edwards, J. Jr., and Glaser, J. D. Maryland Geological Survey. Scale 1:250,000.
  2. ^ a b Williams, G.H., and Darton, N.H., 1892, Geologic map of Baltimore and vicinity: U.S. Geological Survey, Map to accompany "Guide to Baltimore".