1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Geology
  4. by state
  5. Maryland

Grove Limestone

XML
JSON
Shapefile
Dark gray to light dove, thick-bedded limestone; dolomite beds in lower part; highly quartzose limestone at base; Upper Cambrian to Lower Ordovician in age; thickness approximately 590 feet.
State Maryland
Name Grove Limestone
Geologic age Upper Cambrian to Lower Ordovician
Lithologic constituents
Major
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Dolostone
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone
References

Cleaves, E.T., Edwards, J., Jr., and Glaser, J.D., 1968, Geologic Map of Maryland: Maryland Geological Survey, Baltimore, Maryland, scale 1:250,000.

In 1995 the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey digitized the geologic map of Maryland from the 1968 paper map (Reference MD001). Information about products from the Maryland Geological Survey can be found at http://www.mgs.md.gov/.
NGMDB product
Counties Frederick