By: magic-gigapans
Image: Callan Bentley, Mid-Atlantic Geo-Image Collection
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Uploaded: 8 May 2020
Last Updated: 26 May 2020
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Devonian-aged passive margin sediments between clastic wedge packages reflecting Taconian / Acadian orogenic activity. Cleaved and folded during Alleghanian mountain-building in late Paleozoic. Structural measurements, in azimuth notation, written in "right-hand rule": Prominent joint set (widely spaced, divides outcrop into "thirds," left to right): 142° / 84° Foliation: 054° / 90° Bedding 090° / 38°