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Mount Nittany is the common name for Nittany Mountain, a prominent geographic feature in Centre County, Pennsylvania. The mount is not a mountain but is part of a ridge that separates Nittany Valley from Penns Valley , with the enclosed Sugar Valley between them.
Nittany Valley is an eroded anticlinal valley [2] located in Centre County, Pennsylvania. It is separated from the Bald Eagle Valley by Bald Eagle Mountain and from Penns Valley by Mount Nittany. The valley is closed to the north by a high plateau that joins these two mountain ridges, but is open to the south at the southern terminus of Mount ...
Mount Nittany, Tuscarora Mountain, Jacks Mountain, Wills Mountain, and Sideling Hill are five prominent mountains in this section. The section contains Cambrian- through Pennsylvanian-aged sediments all deposited into the Appalachian Basin. During the Appalachian orogeny, these sediments became folded, faulted, and moved around.
Penns Valley is an eroded anticlinal valley of the Pennsylvania ridge and valley geologic region of the Appalachian Mountain range. The valley is located in southern Centre County, Pennsylvania. Along with the Nittany Valley to the north and east, it is part of the larger Nittany Anticlinorium. [1]
Bald Eagle Mountain is in the western part of the Ridge and Valley province of the Appalachian Mountains. Brush Mountain and the neighboring Nittany Mountain and Tussey Mountain ridges are part of the same Paleozoic anticline, the limbs of which consist of the older Ordovician Bald Eagle Formation (), Juniata Formation (interbedded sandstone and shale), and younger Silurian Tuscarora Formation ...
During the Appalachian orogeny, the sedimentary rock layers in this area folded up, forming the Nittany Arch. The arch was an ancient Himalayan scale mountain that towered above what is now Nittany Valley. It has since eroded leaving its many rock layers exposed with the youngest rock layers at the foot of the Allegheny Front. The more durable ...
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The center of Nittany is at the intersections of PA Routes 64 and 445. PA 64 leads northeast through Lamar 3 miles (5 km) to Interstate 80 and southwest 9 miles (14 km) to Zion , while PA 445 leads southeast across Nittany and Brush mountains 12 miles (19 km) to Millheim .