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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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At the western side of the Hanging Rock Anticline outcrop on Corridor H (new route 55 in West Virginia, between Moorefield and Wardensville) shows the depositional contact between the Tuscarora quartz sandstones and the overlying shales and iron sands of the Rose Hill Formation. The contact, like the strata, dips to th...
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The View of Seneca Rocks from the visitory parking lot. Seneca Rocks is a large recreation area and attracts hikers climbers and rock lovers from all around. Seneca Rocks are made of upturned vertical beds of Silurian Tuscarora Sandstone, a major ridge-former in the Valley and Ridge province. Image as part of the Mi...
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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 overlooking the total extent of an incredible road-cut exposure of folded paleozoic sedimentary strata over 500 meters long. This fine example of tectonic fo...
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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 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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