By: callanbentley
Image: CB/MAGIC
License: Creative Commons Non Commercial ⧉

Uploaded: 4 Apr 2020
Last Updated: 4 Apr 2020

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A lovely exposure (though rather harshly lit) of the contact between two Cambro-Ordovician limestones in the Shenandoah Valley. Geologic map of the site is here: http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/ngm-bin/pdp/zui_viewer.pl?id=14868 The same contact can be seen in the vicinity of Strasburg, Virginia, here: http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/78234 Cleavage and passive folding of the contact resulted from the late Paleozoic Alleghanian Orogeny.