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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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The Paw Paw Tunnel on the C&O Canal exposes some fine geology.
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The Paw Paw Tunnel on the C&O Canal exposes some fine geology.
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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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This is the whipcove anticline, and upfolded package of sandstone siltstones and shales in the Devonian Foreknobs formation. This exposure is featured along Corridor H west of Baker, WV.
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got myself in there twice
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This outcrop is located along the new portions of West Virginia Route 55 west of the town of Moorefield. This outcrop is the on the north side of rt 55 and matches a gigapan set taken from the opposite side of highway: www.gigapan.com/gigapans/103089 www.gigapan.com/gigapans/103090 This example of ...
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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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This box shaped anticline is exposed along the New West Virginia Route 55 west of the town of Moorefield. This example of tectonic folding is seen in Silurian/Devonian limestones, siltstones and shales likely from the Tonoloway Formation. Geologists interpret this sequence of rocks as evidence of a period of tectoni...
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