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Rocks that characterize this region include: limestone, dolomite, slate, shale, sandstone, siltstone, and some scattered basalt. Almost all of the rocks in the Great Valley in Pennsylvania are Ordovician in age and were deposited during a quiet period before the Taconic orogeny. The limestones and dolomites of this area are extensively quarried ...
The following is a list of the mapped bedrock units in Pennsylvania. The rocks are listed in stratigraphic order. [1] System Group name Formation name Member name
Broad Top, located north of Breezewood, is a plateau of relatively flat-lying rocks that are stratigraphically higher, and thus younger (Mississippian and Pennsylvanian), than most of the other rocks within the county (Cambrian through Devonian). Broad Top extends into Huntingdon County to the north and Fulton County to the east.
The Devonian Catskill Group or the Catskill Clastic wedge is a unit of mostly terrestrial sedimentary rock found in Pennsylvania and New York. Minor marine layers exist in this thick rock unit (up to 10,000 feet (3,000 m)). It is equivalent to the Hampshire Formation of Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia.
Shaped rock piles on boulders at the Oley Hills site Large shaped rock pile at the Oley Hills site Cairn or rock pile at the Oley Hills site: sometimes said to resemble a turtle The Oley Hills site , or Oley Hills stone work site , located in Berks County, Pennsylvania , is an enigmatic complex of snaking dry stone walls, carefully shaped rock ...
Rock formations of Pennsylvania (2 P) V. Valleys of Pennsylvania (6 C, 23 P) W. Waterfalls of Pennsylvania (1 C, 8 P) Wetlands of Pennsylvania (1 C, 4 P)
The Keyser is a nodular limestone overlain by thick- and thin-bedded limestone and laminated limestone at its type locality in Keyser, West Virginia.. In central Pennsylvania, the basal "calico" limestone is a fossiliferous, medium-light- to medium-gray very thick bedded calcilutite containing numerous small irregular patches of clear calcite.
Tuscarora quartzite cliff on the west side of North Fork Mountain in West Virginia. The Tuscarora Formation is commonly exposed on various ridge crests and in many water gaps in the Ridge and Valley physiographic province of the Appalachians of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia, particularly along the Wills Mountain Anticline.