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

246 megapixels
23,276 x 10,584 pixels
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This outcrop is located along the new portions of West Virginia Route 55 west of the town of Moorefield. The view is looking at the south side of the freeway and is the on the eastern side of an incredible roadcut exposure of folded paleozoic sedimentary strata over 500 meters long. This is the second gigapan, which follows https://viewer.gigamacro.com/view/H7sTV6cQ1DJzhemu This fine example of inclined sedimentary strata 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. Deformation of these passive margin sediments occurred long after deposition in the Alleghenian Orogeny when Africa crashed into the North American Plate to form Pangea. View of the camera is looking south. Image made as part of Mid Atlantic Geo-Imagery Collection (MAGIC).