Reddish-brown to maroon, silty mudstone and shale containing thin red sandstone interbeds; several thin beds of impure limestone.
Light gray, green, and purple; commonly schistose, containing quartz augen and veins.
Light-gray to buff, commonly arkosic sandstone interbedded with red shale, mudstone, and fine-grained sandstone
Medium- to coarse-grained, quartz-normative tholeiite; composed of labradorite and various pyroxenes; occurs as dikes, sheets, and a few small flows. Includes the dark-gray York Haven Diabase (high titanium oxide) and the slightly younger Rossville Diabase (low titanium oxide). In chilled margins, the Rossville is distinguished from the York Haven by its lighter gray color and distinctive, sparse, centimeter-sized calcic-plagioclase phenocrysts.
Red, green, and gray shale and argillite, and minor thin beds of gray arkosic sandstone; some quartz conglomerate and limestone conglomerate.
Dark-gray, fine-grained intrusives; locally, mineralogy is altered and unit has greenish color.
Well-rounded quartzite pebbles, cobbles, and rare boulders set in a reddish-brown, sandy matrix.
In descending order: Weverton--gray to purplish-gray quartzite and quartzose conglomerate containing rounded pebbles. Loudoun--sericitic slate and purplish-gray, crumbly, poorly sorted, arkosic sandstone and conglomerate.
Light-gray, thin-bedded, impure, contorted limestone having shale partings; conglomeratic at base; in Chester Valley, includes micaceous limestone in upper part, phyllite in middle, and alternating dolomite and limestone in lower part.
Gray quartzite.
Includes, in descending order, the Antietam (CAa) and Harpers (CAh) Formations. Antietam Formation - gray, buff-weathering quartzite. Harpers Formation - Dark-greenish-gray phyllite and schist containing thin quartzite layers; includes Montalto Member (CAhm) - gray quartztite
Fine to medium grained, light to medium green; includes probable metavolcanic rocks.
Base--dark-brown shale; middle--gray and white spotted limestone and, locally, marble having irregular partings; top--sandy limestone which weathers to a fine-grained, friable, porous, sandy mass.
Includes, in descending order, the Pinesburg Station (Ops), Rockdale Run (Orr), and Stonehenge (Os) Formations.
Gray-green phyllite, mica-chlorite schist, and conglomerate.
Yellowish-gray to medium-gray, angular limestone and dolomite pebbles, cobbles, and fragments set in a red, very fine grained quartz matrix; a few shale-clast interbeds.
Dark-greenish-gray phyllite and schist containing thin quartzite layers; includes Montalto Member (CAhm).
Light-gray, locally mottled, massive, pure, coarsely crystalline dolomite; siliceous in middle part.
Light-gray, hard, massive, Scolithus-bearing quartzite and quartz schist; thin, interbedded dark slate at top; conglomerate (Hellam Member) at base.
Quartz or quartzite pebbles, cobbles, and rare boulders set in a red, sandy, ferruginous matrix; some silica cement; some feldspar clasts.
Gray, buff-weathering quartzite.
Dark-gray, knotty, argillaceous dolomite; impure light-gray marble at base locally.
Arkosic sandstone; fossiliferous, gray to black shale and limestone; ripple-cross-laminated siltstone; and boulder conglomerate.
Gray, buff-weathering quartzite and quartz schist.
Light-gray or brownish siltstone and some sandstone, interbedded with medium-gray shale; included in Conneaut Group and "Chemung" of earlier workers; marine fossils common; includes "pink rock" of drillers.
Massive dolomite containing thin shaly interbeds.
Red, maroon, and gray sandstone, siltstone, and shale; basal conglomerate member: From vicinity of Maryland Rte. 73 and southward, limestone conglomerate with red and gray calcareous matrix; northward, quartz conglomerate with red sandy matrix; estimated total thickness 4,5000 feet.
Bluish-gray to silvery-green, fine-grained, muscovite-chlorite-albite-quartz schist; intensely cleaved and closely folded; contains interbedded quartzites.
Gray quartz conglomerate, sandstone, and red siltstone and mudstone.
Red shale and soft red sandstone and siltstone; estimated thickness less than 5,000 feet.
Brown to dark bluish-gray banded shale, to light bluish-gray, finely laminated phyllite; distinctively pale purple in basal part; bedding obscured by cleavage; increasingly metamorphosed toward east from shale to slate and phyllite; estimated thickness 2,000 feet.
White to dark gray and brown, thick-bedded, fine- to coarse-grained quartzite with thin argillaceous partings; first occurrence of Lower Cambrian fossils; cleavage generally obscures bedding; increasingly metamorphosed and phyllitic toward east; estimated thickness 300 to 800 feet.
Sills: Greenish-gray to black, medium-grained; dikes: Greenish-gray to black, medium- to dine-grained; local contact metamorphic aureoles.
From vicinity of Maryland Rte. 73 northward, quartz conglomerate with red sandy matrix
Thick-bedded metabasalt with amygdaloidal layers and secondary veins of quartz, calcite, and epidote; interbedded green tuffaceous phyllite and blue amygdaloidal metaandesite.