By: magic-gigapans
Image: Callan Bentley, Mid-Atlantic Geo-Image Collection
License: Creative Commons Non Commercial ⧉

Uploaded: 8 May 2020
Last Updated: 5 Jun 2020

362 megapixels
26,796 x 13,504 pixels
89.3 in X 45.0 in at 300dpi
22 pixels per inch

Looking at an anticline in the Ordovician-aged Edinburg Formation from Frederick County, Virginia, on the western shore of Opequon Creek, gazing across into Clarke County. Strata are Ordovician; deformation is Alleghanian (late Paleozoic). Another set of folds is just upstream: https://viewer.gigamacro.com/view/uUWlrBkSguT9Cmj3 These outcrops are on private property. Access was courtesy of landowners Jim & Rebekah Wiedower.