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

Uploaded: 29 Apr 2020
Last Updated: 20 May 2020

1.42 gigapixels
54,336 x 26,176 pixels
181.1 in X 87.3 in at 300dpi

You're looking down the nose of this overturned anticline of Mississippian carbonate. Search for fossil coral heads and extensional fractures on the outside edge of this giant Sevier-aged thrust. For a (partial) view from the side, you can check out this gigapan: https://viewer.gigamacro.com/view/uyCmBJ2HE9AndfqC For a blog post talking about the geology here, see: http://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/2011/07/25/swift-dam/