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Norbeck Intrusive Suite

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Type
  
igneous

Extent
  
Montgomery County

Named for
  
Norbeck, Maryland

Region
  
Piedmont of Maryland

Named by
  
C. A. Hopson, 1964

Primary
  
tonalite, metadiorite, metagabbro

The Norbeck Intrusive Suite is an Ordovician granitic pluton in Montgomery County, Maryland. It was originally mapped as the Norbeck Quartz Diorite by Hopson, and is shown as such on the Geologic Map of Maryland of 1968. A. A. Drake later revised the name after more detailed mapping. It intrudes through the Wissahickon Formation.

Description

Three lithologies were mapped in the Kensington quadrangle by Drake:

  • medium- to coarse-grained, fairly massive to foliated biotite-hornblende tonalite that contains xenoliths and/or autoliths of more mafic rock
  • medium-grained, quartz-augite-hornblende metagabbro that forms small bodies within the tonalite
  • dark-green, well-foliated ultramafic rocks of serpentine and lesser soapstone

    • References

    Norbeck Intrusive Suite Wikipedia
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