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Characteristic fossils of the Buda Formation may be seen in loose blocks at an abandoned quarry on the north side of the Cristo Rey laccolith.
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Characteristic fossils of the Buda Formation may be seen in loose blocks at an abandoned quarry on the north side of the Cristo Rey laccolith.
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Characteristic fossils of the Buda Formation may be seen in loose blocks at an abandoned quarry on the north side of the Cristo Rey laccolith.
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- Folded contact between New Market Formation (lower) and Lincolnshire Formation (upper), Staunton, Virginia by Callan Bentley
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A lovely exposure (though rather harshly lit) of the contact between two Cambro-Ordovician limestones in the Shenandoah Valley. Geologic map of the site is here: ngmdb.usgs.gov/ngm-bin/pdp/zui_viewer.pl?id=14868
The same contact can be seen in the vicinity of Strasburg, Virginia, here:
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Syncline adjacent to the Patterson Creek Mountain Anticline, exposed in West Virginia, along Corridor H. For other views of this site, see: gigapan.com/gigapans/103106 gigapan.com/gigapans/103090 gigapan.com/gigapans/103089 gigapan.com/gigapans/91448
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Shot at fixed focal distance, which means that most of this image is out-of-focus. Still - nice fossils.
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Cruziana trace fossils, donated by Alan Pitts.
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This is a subvertical bedding plane (220° / 80°, right hand rule) of the late Ordovician Martinsburg Formation, showing the bottom of a turbidite bed. Several features are visible in this bottom-up perspective.
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This is a subvertical bedding plane (220° / 80°, right hand rule) of the late Ordovician Martinsburg Formation, showing the bottom of a turbidite bed. Several features are visible in this bottom-up perspective.
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This is a "doomed" outcrop of the Miocene-aged (~14 Ma) Calvert Formation on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay. "Bed 14," a distinctive fossiliferous unit, is exposed here thanks to the effort of one of the local landowners. In a month or two, this entire outcrop will be permanently covered with "hard stabilization" ...
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