The Paleontology of North America

The Precambrian in Maryland, US

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undifferentiated rock units

See exposures in this state from the:

Quaternary
Tertiary
Cretaceous
Jurassic
Triassic
Permian
Carboniferous
Devonian
Silurian
Ordovician
Cambrian
Precambrian

Precambrian Fossils
Fossil photos from Precambrian in Maryland

Paleontology and geology

Precambrian metamorphic and igneous rocks can be found in the eastern Piedmont region, a broad geographic area trending northeast-southwest just to the west of Baltimore. Some of these are metamorphosed sedimentary material, but no fossils have been positively identified from these rocks thus far. Drilling has shown that similar rocks lie beneath the much younger sedimentary rocks of the Coastal Plain to the east.

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