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Tonoloway Limestone exposed in the northeast wall of the "Old Derrick" Quarry, along Rt. 50, near Romney, WV. The quarry's late Silurian-aged peritidal carbonates were laid down in the Tippecanoe sea. Its strata primarily record a tidal flat environment, with conspicuous mudcracks, laminites, stromatolites, and sal...
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North side of Calvert Street, east side of the Duke Ellington Bridge over Rock Creek. An interesting example of weathering in the urban environment.
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The Keyser Limestone is the lowest formation of the late Silurian to early Devonian Helderburg Group. It records stable platform deposits which accumulated in the quiet period between the Taconian and Acadian orogenies. This sample was collected and contributed by Dr. Michael Mengason.
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Triassic limestone quarry in Zyglin, Upper Silesia Region, Poland
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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 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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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 ...
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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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