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Brachiopod body fossils in the Ridgeley Member of the Old Port Formation, a Devonian sandstone (quartz arenite) which outcrops in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. This outcrop is in a railroad cut on the Great Allegheny Passage, approximately one mile northeast of the intersection of Cash Valley Road with ...
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The Paw Paw Tunnel on the C&O Canal exposes some fine geology, like these Brallier Formation slabs which, here, dip into the Tunnel Hollow, with a potential for breaking off and slipping down into the valley.
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The Paw Paw Tunnel on the C&O Canal exposes some fine geology, like these slickensides on a slab of the Brallier Formation: these formed due to flexural slip between layers as they folded during mountain building accompanying the Alleghanian Orogeny.
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This is exposure is located on Va Rt 50 and features a nice section of the Devonian Foreknobs formation.
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The Paw Paw Tunnel on the C&O Canal exposes some fine geology.
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Here is a nice folded section of the Devonian-age Foreknobs formation West of Gore, Virginia along US rt 50. The Foreknobs Formation ( formerly known as the Chemung) is a mixed package of brownish red to grey sandstone siltstone shale and minor conglomerate
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The Paw Paw Tunnel on the C&O Canal exposes some fine geology.
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This outcrop is located along the new portions of West Virginia Route 55 west of the town of Moorefield. The view is looking at the south side of the freeway and is the on the eastern side of an incredible roadcut exposure of folded paleozoic sedimentary strata over 500 meters long. I shot this location as several ...
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got myself in there twice
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Another look at some nice exposures of the Devonian Foreknobs Formation along Rt 50 west of Gore, Va.
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