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

Uploaded: 14 May 2020
Last Updated: 26 May 2020

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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 tectonic peace during the middle of the Paleozoic. View of camera is looking roughly south. Image made as part of Mid Atlantic Geo-Imagery Collection (MAGIC).