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

Uploaded: 13 May 2020
Last Updated: 28 May 2020

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The Massanutten sandstone is a Silurian-aged passive margin deposit that is correlative to the Tuscarora Formation of the western Valley & Ridge province. A bed is exposed here in a subvertical orientation along the Woodstock Tower Road, near its summit. Perspective is looking across strike to the west-northwest. Trace fossils (Arthrophycus?) may be observed in many orientations within the bedding plane. Structural orientation (right-hand rule) of bedding: 037°, 84° To view a sample of the Massanutten Sandstone in macro detail, try this: https://viewer.gigamacro.com/view/NgGXkgzK8vZAbSsD