Setters Formation

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Setters Formation
Stratigraphic range: late Precambrian
Outcrop of Setters Formation along Marriottsville Road, Baltimore County
Typemetamorphic
Unit ofGlenarm Group
UnderliesCockeysville Marble
OverliesBaltimore Gneiss
Lithology
PrimaryMica-schist
OtherMuscovite-gneiss and quartzite
Location
RegionPiedmont of eastern North America
CountryUnited States
ExtentMaryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware

The Setters Formation is a geological formation that is located in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware in the United States. The formation is metamorphic and consists of a complex suite of schist, gneiss, and quartzite.[1]

It is the lowest unit of the Glenarm Group (or Supergroup).[2] The overlying formations of the group are the Cockeysville Marble and the Wissahickon Formation.

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