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Maryland Geological Survey: A Brief Description of the Geology of Maryland
... beach restoration. The Piedmont Plateau Province is composed of hard, crystalline igneous and metamorphic rocks and extends from the inner edge of the Coastal Plain ... igneous rocks of probable volcanic origin. In several places these rocks have been intruded by granitic plutons and pegmatites. Deep drilling has revealed that similar metamorphic and igneous rocks underlie the sedimentary rocks ...
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Maryland Geological Survey: A Geologic Walking Tour of Building Stones of Downtown Baltimore, Maryland
... igneous and metamorphic—on the basis of how the rock formed. Sedimentary rocks are formed from sediments, such as gravel, sand, clay, or organic material, that have become cemented together naturally. Igneous rocks ...
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Maryland Geological Survey: A Geologic Walking Tour of Building Stones of Downtown Baltimore, Maryland
... of Precambrian age, more than 544 million years old. Granite is an igneous rock formed by the cooling of molten magma. The slower the ... colored mineral is quartz, the second most common mineral found in rocks. The black mineral is biotite, a type of mica. One distinct ... as the granite. This is a good opportunity to compare the igneous granite with the gneiss, which is a metamorphic rock. The granite ...
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