A.I.duPont Students see geology of the Delaware Piedmont
- amphibolites
- Appalachian Piedmont
- Baltimore Gneiss
- Barley Mill Gneiss
- bedrock
- Brandywine Blue Gneiss
- Brandywine Springs
- Clinopyroxene
- Cockeysville Marble
- crystalline rocks
- deformation
- Delaware
- Enstatite (Bronzite)
- fall zone
- Fall Zone
- Faulkland Gneiss
- Garnet
- geology
- Glenarm Series
- Greenbank
- Hornblende
- Hypersthene
- igneous
- magma
- Magnetite
- mapping
- Metapyroxenite and metagabbro (undifferentiated)
- Mica
- Microcline
- Mount Cuba
- Orthoclase
- Orthopyroxene
- pegmatite
- Plagioclase
- Pyroxene
- Quartz
- Red Clay Creek
- Rockford Park Gneiss
- rocks
- Serpentinite
- Setters Formation
- Sillimanite
- Taconic Orogeny
- tectonics
- topography
- Wilmington Complex
- Wissahickon Formation
- Wooddale
- Yorklyn
- Zircon
Baltimore Gneiss
Granitic gneiss with swirling leucosomes and irregular biotite-rich restite layers is the dominant lithology and constitutes approximately 75 to 80 percent of the exposed rocks. The remaining 20 to 25 percent comprises hornblende-biotite gneiss, amphibolite with or without pyroxene, and pegmatite. Granitic gneiss is composed of quartz, plagioclase, biotite, and microcline. Minor and accessory minerals are garnet, muscovite, magnetite, ilmenite, sphene, apatite, and zircon. The hornblende gneiss contains plagioclase, quartz, hornblende, and biotite with/without orthopyroxene. Accessory minerals are garnet, muscovite, clinozoisite, perthitic orthoclase, iron-titanium oxides, sphene, and apatite. Amphibolites are composed of subequal amounts of hornblende and plagioclase with minor quartz, biotite, clinopyroxene, and orthopyroxene.
Faulkland Gneiss
Predominantly fine- to coarse-grained amphibolites and quartz amphibolites with minor felsic rocks, probably metavolcanic. Major minerals are amphibole and plagioclase with or without pyroxene and/or quartz. Amphibole may be hornblende, cummingtonite, gedrite, and/or anthophyllite. Halos of plagioclase and quartz around porphyroblasts of magnetite, orthopyroxene, and garnet are common features.
Brandywine Blue Gneiss
Medium to coarse grained granulites and gneisses composed of plagioclase, quartz, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, brown-green hornblende, magnetite, and ilmenite. Mafic minerals vary from < 5-30 modal percent. A lineation due to a preferred orientation of quartz and mafic minerals is obvious on weathered surfaces. Unit contains thin, discontinuous fine-grained mafic layers.
B3 Marine Upper Cretaceous Formations of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
In the Coastal Plain of Delaware, the non-marine Cretaceous sands and clays are separated from the Tertiary formations by a series of marine formations of Upper Cretaceous age. The sedimentary and hydrologic characteristics of these formations deserve detailed study because some of them are water-bearing beds. whereas others act as confining beds. A clear understanding of their relative age. and the presence or absence of unconformities is needed for proper correlation with formations found in wells throughout the State. as well as in Maryland and New Jersey.
Schenck rocks out on railroad geological tours
- Appalachian Piedmont
- Baltimore Gneiss
- Barley Mill Gneiss
- Biotite
- Brandywine Blue Gneiss
- Brandywine Springs
- Bronzite
- Cockeysville Marble
- Cordierite
- education
- Epidote
- Garnet
- geoadventure
- geology
- Greenbank
- Hoopes Reservoir
- Hornblende
- Hypersthene
- Magnetite
- Metapyroxenite and metagabbro (undifferentiated)
- Microcline
- Mill Creek Metagabbro
- Mount Cuba
- Orthoclase
- outreach
- Perkins Run Gabbronorite Suite
- Plagioclase
- Prices Corner
- Quartz
- Red Clay Creek
- Rockford Park Gneiss
- Serpentine
- Serpentinite
- Setters Formation
- Sillimanite
- Wilmington Complex
- Windy Hills Gneiss
- Wissahickon Formation
- Wooddale
- Yorklyn



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