By: callanbentley
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Uploaded: 22 Mar 2018
Last Updated: 22 Mar 2018

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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° Image made as part of the Mid-Atlantic Geo-Image Collection (M.A.G.I.C.)