Diabase Sills and Dikes

Sills: Greenish-gray to black, medium-grained; dikes: Greenish-gray to black, medium- to dine-grained; local contact metamorphic aureoles.
State Maryland
Name Diabase Sills and Dikes
Geologic age Triassic
Lithologic constituents
Major
Igneous > Volcanic > Mafic-volcanic > Basalt (Dike or sill)
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 Carroll - Frederick - Montgomery