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Geologic Map of West Virginia. West Virginia's geologic history stretches back into the Precambrian, and includes several periods of mountain building and erosion. At times, much of what is now West Virginia was covered by swamps, marshlands, and shallow seas, accounting for the wide variety of sedimentary rocks found in the state, as well as its wealth of coal and natural gas deposits.
Mount Joy Pond Natural Area Preserve – a large sinkhole pond located in Augusta County, Virginia; NR-1 Sinkhole – an underwater sinkhole first located by the NR-1 submarine; located southwest of Key West, Florida; Peter Sinks – a natural sinkhole in northern Utah, one of the coldest places in the contiguous United States
The last elk killed in all of West Virginia were shot around 1843 in nearby Canaan Valley.) In March 1864, a minor incident of the Civil War occurred at the Sinks. Eight men of General Imboden 's Confederate command, who had been waylaying wagon trains in the north, crossed into neighboring Tucker County where they robbed a general store about ...
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Sinkholes can range in size from a few feet wide to hundreds of acres, and anywhere from 1 to 100 feet or more deep. Sinkholes can swallow up cars, parts of roads and even houses.
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Trout Pond — formerly called Old Pond — located near Wardensville in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA, is the state's only natural lake. The small "lake" is situated in the Trout Pond Recreation Area (TPRA) of the George Washington National Forest. Formerly, the pond had fluctuated in surface area between 2 and 3 acres, but recently it has ...
Sinkholes - collapse features that often form cave entrances. [34] Cenotes - sinkholes resulting when a collapse of limestone bedrock exposes groundwater. [35] Ponor - natural opening where surface water enters underground passages, similar to sinkhole. [36] Suffusion - geological processes by which subsidence sinkholes or dolines are formed. [37]