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Chickies Formation

The Cambrian Chickies Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland. It is named for Chickies Rock, north of Columbia, Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River.

Description
The Chickies Formation is described as a light-gray to white, hard, massive quartzite and quartz schist with thin interbedded dark slate at the top. Included at the base is the Hellam Conglomerate Member. It is a rare metamorphic rock that has fossils; Skolithos is found throughout the formation. == Depositional age ==
Depositional age
Relative age dating places the Chickies in the Lower Cambrian Period, deposited between 542 and 520 million years ago (±2 million years). == Economic geology ==
Economic geology
The Chickies is quarried as a building stone and for aggregate. The stone used to build the restrooms at Valley Forge National Historical Park is Chickies quartzite. File:Bulletin 799 Plate 8B Chickies Banded Slate.jpg|Specimen of Chickies Banded Slate. Shows older folded schistosity parallel to bedding cut by younger cleavage inclined to bedding. File:Bulletin 799 Plate 8C Mica Schist from Upper Beds of Chickies Quartzite.jpg|Specimen of mica schist from upper beds of Chickies Quartzite. Shows stretched epigenetic tourmaline. File:Cobble bed in Hellam conglomerate member of Chickies quartzite sgw02104.jpg|Cobble bed in Hellam Conglomerate Member == See also ==
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